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.
It was twenty-five years into our exile, early in the year on the tenth day of the month, fourteen years after Jerusalem got destroyed. That exact same day, God's presence came over me and took me there.
Sometimes God shows up with perfect timing, right when you need to see what's next.
📚 Historical Context
Ezekiel was a prophet among the Jewish exiles in Babylon, taken there in 597 BC after the Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem. This verse marks the beginning of a detailed vision he received in the 25th year of the exile, around 573 BC, specifically on the tenth day of the month, which was 14 years after Jerusalem's destruction in 586 BC. At this time, the exiled people were enduring hardship, and the "hand of the LORD" signifies God's direct intervention to reveal a message of future hope and restoration through a vision of a new temple.
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