Yehezkiel 29:17

29:17 In the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, ¹  the word of the Lord came to me:

Yehezkiel 1:2

1:2 (On the fifth day of the month – it was the fifth year of King Jehoiachin’s exile –

Yehezkiel 8:1

A Desecrated Temple

8:1 In the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth of the month, ²  as I was sitting in my house with the elders of Judah sitting in front of me, the hand ³  of the sovereign Lord seized me. ⁴ 

Yehezkiel 20:1

Israel’s Rebellion

20:1 In the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth of the month, ⁵  some of the elders ⁶  of Israel came to seek ⁷  the Lord, and they sat down in front of me.

Yehezkiel 26:1

A Prophecy Against Tyre

26:1 In the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, ⁸  the word of the Lord came to me:

Yehezkiel 40:1

Vision of the New Temple

40:1 In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city ⁹  was struck down, on this very day, ¹⁰  the hand ¹¹  of the Lord was on me, and he brought me there. ¹² 

[29:17]  ¹ sn April 26, 571 b.c.

[8:1]  ² tc The LXX reads “In the sixth year, in the fifth month, on the fifth of the month.”

[8:1]  sn In the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth of the month would be September 17, 592 b.c., about fourteen months after the initial vision.

[8:1]  ³ tn Or “power.”

[8:1]  sn Hand in the OT can refer metaphorically to power, authority, or influence. In Ezekiel God’s hand being on the prophet is regularly associated with communication or a vision from God (3:14, 22; 8:1; 37:1; 40:1).

[8:1]  ⁴ tn Heb “fell upon me there,” that is, God’s influence came over him.

[20:1]  ⁵ sn The date would be August 14th, 591 b.c. The seventh year is the seventh year of Jehoiachin’s exile.

[20:1]  ⁶ tn Heb “men from the elders.”

[20:1]  ⁷ tn See the note at 14:3.

[26:1]  ⁸ tc Date formulae typically include the month. According to D. I. Block (Ezekiel [NICOT], 2:34, n. 27) some emend to “in the twelfth year in the eleventh month” based partially on the copy of the LXX from Alexandrinus, where Albright suggested that “eleventh month” may have dropped out due to haplography.

[26:1]  sn April 23, 587 b.c.

[40:1]  ⁹ sn That is, Jerusalem.

[40:1]  ¹⁰ tn April 19, 573 b.c.

[40:1]  ¹¹ tn Or “power.”

[40:1]  sn Hand in the OT can refer metaphorically to power, authority, or influence. In Ezekiel God’s hand being on the prophet is regularly associated with communication or a vision from God (3:14, 22; 8:1; 37:1; 40:1).

[40:1]  ¹² sn That is, to the land of Israel (see v. 2).