Ezekiel 1:1-3

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Ezekiel’s Vision of Living Creatures

1 It was the thirtieth year, on the fifth day of the fourth month [^Cof Ezekiel’s life, or of Nabopolassar’s reign, or since King Josiah’s reforms]. I was by the Kebar ·River [Canal; ^Ca branch of the Euphrates River south of Babylon] among the ·people who had been carried away as captives [exiles]. The ·sky [heavens] opened, and I saw visions of God.

² It was the fifth day of the month of the fifth year that King Jehoiachin had been ·a prisoner [in exile/captivity; ^C593 bc; 2 Kin. 24:12, 15]. ³ The ·Lord spoke his word [^Lword of the Lord came] to Ezekiel son of Buzi in the land of the Babylonians by the Kebar ·River [Canal; 1:1]. There ·he felt the power of the Lord [^Lthe hand of the Lord was on him].