Ezekiel 1 · Verse 2

Ezekiel 1:2

In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin’s captivity,
Ezekiel 1:2, King James Version

Ezekiel 1:2 in other translations

BSBOn the fifth day of the month—it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin—
WEBIn the fifth of the month, which was the fifth year of King Jehoiachin’s captivity,
ASVIn the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin’s captivity,
YLTIn the fifth of the month--it is the fifth year of the removal of the king Jehoiachin--
DARBYOn the fifth of the month, (it was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity,)
BBEOn the fifth day of the month, in the fifth year after King Jehoiachin had been made a prisoner,
WebsterIn the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity,

What does Ezekiel 1:2 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
2. Jehoiachin's captivity--In the third or fourth year of Jehoiakim, father of Jehoiachin, the first carrying away of Jewish captives to Babylon took place, and among them was Daniel. The second was under Jehoiachin, when Ezekiel was carried away. The third and final one was at the taking of Jerusalem under Zedekiah.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 2 Jehoiachin's captivity - Called also Jeconiah and Coniah; see 2Kgs 24:12. He was carried away by Nebuchadnezzar; see 2Kgs 24:14.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Ezekiel 1:1-14

Ezekiel's vision of God, and of the angelic host. (Ezek 1:1-14) The conduct of Divine Providence. (Ezek 1:15-25) A revelation of the Son of man upon his heavenly throne. (Ezek 1:26-28) Verses 1-14 It is a mercy to have the word of God brought to us, and a duty to attend to it diligently, when we are in affliction. The voice of God came in the fulness of light and power, by the Holy Spirit. These visions seem to have…

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Ezekiel 1:2 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

בַּחֲמִשָּׁ֖הba.cha.mi.Shahon [day] fiveH2568
לַחֹ֑דֶשׁla.Cho.deshof the monthH2320
הִ֚יאhi'itH1931
הַשָּׁנָ֣הha.sha.Nah[was] the yearH8141
הַחֲמִישִׁ֔יתha.cha.mi.Shit<the> fifthH2549
לְגָל֖וּתle.ga.Lutof [the] exile ofH1546
הַמֶּ֥לֶךְha.Me.lekhthe kingH4428
יוֹיָכִֽין\׃yo.ya.KhinJehoiachinH3112

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Ezekiel 1:2

  • 2 Kings 24:12-15

    And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign. And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king’s house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the Lord, as the Lord had said. And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land. And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king’s mother, and the king’s wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land, those carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.

  • Ezekiel 8:1

    And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord God fell there upon me.

  • Ezekiel 20:1

    And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month, that certain of the elders of Israel came to enquire of the Lord, and sat before me.

  • Ezekiel 40:1

    In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day the hand of the Lord was upon me, and brought me thither.

  • Ezekiel 29:17

    And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the first month, in the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

  • Ezekiel 31:1

    And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

  • Ezekiel 29:1

    In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the twelfth day of the month, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
8:1; 20:1; 29:1,17; 31:1; 40:1; 2Ki 24:12-15

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Context

  • Ezekiel 1:1

    Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.

  • Ezekiel 1:2

    In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin’s captivity,

  • Ezekiel 1:3

    The word of the Lord came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the Lord was there upon him.

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Ezekiel 1:2 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
A los cinco del mes, que fué en el quinto año de la transmigración del rey Joachîn,
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Le cinquième jour du mois (c’était la cinquième année de la transportation du roi Jehoïakin),
German
Elberfelder 1871
Am Fünften des Monats, das war das fünfte Jahr der Wegführung des Königs Jojakin
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
In quinta mensis, ipse est annus quintus transmigrationis regis Joachin,