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Prophecy · The Exile571 BC

Ezekiel is shown the temple to come

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Ezekiel 40:1–4In the twenty-fifth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was struck, in the same day, Yahweh’s hand was…Ezekiel 47:1–12He brought me back to the door of the temple; and behold, waters flowed out from under the threshold of the temple eastward, for the front of the temple faced toward the east. The waters…
Opening words from the World English Bible (public domain); the passage list is in-house

Who and where

Ezekiel
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How we know the date

Ezekiel dates this vision to the twenty-fifth year of the exile (Ezekiel 40:1). ISBE's article “Ezekiel” (1915) gives 571 BC.

Written in-house from the sources below · every year is a quotation

The sources, word for word

“The supplement in reference to Tyre (29:17 ff) is the latest dated oracle of Ezekiel (from the year 571 BC), and is found here, at a suitable place, because it is connected with a threat against Egypt (Eze 40; Eze 48 date from the year 573 according to Eze 40:1).”

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · EZEKIEL · gives 571 BC

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