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and He took me there. <a href="/nasb_/ezekiel/40.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was taken, on this very day the hand of the LORD was upon me and He brought me there. <a href="/nasb/ezekiel/40.htm">NASB 1995</a> In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was taken, on that same day the hand of the LORD was upon me and He brought me there. <a href="/nasb77/ezekiel/40.htm">NASB 1977 </a> In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was taken, on that same day the hand of the LORD was upon me and He brought me there. <a href="/lsb/ezekiel/40.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was struck down, on that same day the hand of Yahweh was upon me, and He brought me there. <a href="/amp/ezekiel/40.htm">Amplified Bible</a> In the twenty-fifth year of our exile [in Babylon], in the beginning of the year, on the tenth [day] of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city [of Jerusalem] was taken, on that [very] same day the hand of the LORD was upon me and He brought me there. <a href="/csb/ezekiel/40.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> 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 Jerusalem had been captured, on that very day the LORD’s hand was on me, and he brought me there. <a href="/hcsb/ezekiel/40.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> 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 Jerusalem had been captured, on that very day the LORD&#8217s hand was on me, and He brought me there. <a href="/asv/ezekiel/40.htm">American Standard Version</a> 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 Jehovah was upon me, and he brought me thither. <a href="/erv/ezekiel/40.htm">English Revised Version</a> 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 he brought me thither. <a href="/gwt/ezekiel/40.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> It was the tenth day of the month in the beginning of the twenty-fifth year of our captivity and fourteen years after Jerusalem was captured. At that time the LORD's power came over me, and he brought me to Jerusalem. <a href="/gnt/ezekiel/40.htm">Good News Translation</a> It was the tenth day of the new year, which was the twenty-fifth year after we had been taken into exile and the fourteenth year after Jerusalem was captured. On that day I felt the powerful presence of the LORD, and he carried me away. <a href="/isv/ezekiel/40.htm">International Standard Version</a> At the beginning of year 25 of our captivity, on the tenth day of the fourteenth year after the destruction of Jerusalem —on that very day—the LORD grabbed me in his hand and took me there. <a href="/msb/ezekiel/40.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> 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 Jerusalem had been struck down?on that very day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and He took me there. <a href="/net/ezekiel/40.htm">NET Bible</a> 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 was struck down, on this very day, the hand of the LORD was on me, and he brought me there. <a href="/nheb/ezekiel/40.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> 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 struck, in the same day, the hand of the LORD was on me, and he brought me there. <a href="/wbt/ezekiel/40.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> 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 the city was smitten, in the same day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and brought me thither. <a href="/web/ezekiel/40.htm">World English Bible</a> In 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 on me, and he brought me there. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/ezekiel/40.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> In the twenty-fifth year of our removal, in the beginning of the year, on the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after which the city was struck, on this very same day a hand of YHWH has been on me, and He brings me in there; <a href="/ylt/ezekiel/40.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> In the twenty and fifth year of our removal, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in this self-same day hath a hand of Jehovah been upon me, and He bringeth me in thither; <a href="/slt/ezekiel/40.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> In the twenty and fifth year to our captivity, in the beginning, of the year, in the tenth to the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was struck, in this very day the hand of Jehovah was upon me, and he will bring me there.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/ezekiel/40.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, the tenth day of the month, the fourteenth year after the city was destroyed: in the selfsame day the hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me thither. <a href="/cpdv/ezekiel/40.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> In the twenty-fifth year of our transmigration, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was struck, on this very day, the hand of the Lord was placed upon me, and he brought me to that place. <a href="/nabre/ezekiel/40.htm">New American Bible</a> In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, fourteen years after the city had been captured, on that very day the hand of the LORD came upon me and brought me back there. <a href="/nrsvce/ezekiel/40.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> 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 was struck down, on that very day, the hand of the LORD was upon me, and he brought me there.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/ezekiel/40.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> IN the twenty-fifth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after Jerusalem was destroyed, on that very day the hand of the LORD was upon me, <a href="/hpbt/ezekiel/40.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> In the twenty fifth year of our captivity, at the first of the year, in the tenth of the month in the fourteenth year after the city was defeated, on this day the hand of LORD JEHOVAH was upon me<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/ezekiel/40.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> 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 He brought me thither. <a href="/sep/ezekiel/40.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> And it came to pass in the twenty-fifth year of our captivity, in the first month, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the taking of the city, in that day the hand of the Lord was upon me, and brought me <a href="/parallel/ezekiel/40-1.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vET3Gmwku4s?start=11910" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/ezekiel/40.htm">The Man with a Measuring Rod</a> 1<a href="/hebrew/6242.htm" title="6242: bə·‘eś·rîm (Prep-b:: Number-cp) -- Twenty. From eser; twenty; also twentieth.">In the twenty-fifth</a> <a href="/hebrew/2568.htm" title="2568: wə·ḥā·mêš (Conj-w:: Number-fs) -- Five. Masculine chamishshah; a primitive numeral; five."></a> <a href="/hebrew/8141.htm" title="8141: šā·nāh (N-fs) -- A year. (in plura or shanah; from shanah; a year.">year</a> <a href="/hebrew/1546.htm" title="1546: lə·ḡā·lū·ṯê·nū (Prep-l:: N-fsc:: 1cp) -- An exile. Feminine from galah; captivity; concretely, exiles.">of our exile,</a> <a href="/hebrew/7218.htm" title="7218: bə·rōš (Prep-b:: N-msc) -- Head. From an unused root apparently meaning to shake; the head, whether literal or figurative.">at the beginning</a> <a href="/hebrew/8141.htm" title="8141: haš·šā·nāh (Art:: N-fs) -- A year. (in plura or shanah; from shanah; a year.">of the year,</a> <a href="/hebrew/6218.htm" title="6218: be·‘ā·śō·wr (Prep-b, Art:: N-ms) -- A ten, decade. Or masor; from eser; ten; by abbrev. Ten strings, and so a decachord.">on the tenth</a> <a href="/hebrew/2320.htm" title="2320: la·ḥō·ḏeš (Prep-l, Art:: N-ms) -- New moon, a month. From chadash; the new moon; by implication, a month.">day of the month—</a> <a href="/hebrew/702.htm" title="702: bə·’ar·ba‘ (Prep-b:: Number-fs) -- Four. Masculine oarbaah; from raba'; four.">in the fourteenth</a> <a href="/hebrew/6240.htm" title="6240: ‘eś·rêh (Number-fs) -- Ten. For eser; ten, i.e. -teen; also -teenth."></a> <a href="/hebrew/8141.htm" title="8141: šā·nāh (N-fs) -- A year. (in plura or shanah; from shanah; a year.">year</a> <a href="/hebrew/310.htm" title="310: ’a·ḥar (Prep) -- The hind or following part. From 'achar; properly, the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after.">after</a> <a href="/hebrew/834.htm" title="834: ’ă·šer (Pro-r) -- Who, which, that. A primitive relative pronoun; who, which, what, that; also when, where, how, because, in order that, etc."></a> <a href="/hebrew/5892.htm" title="5892: hā·‘îr (Art:: N-fs) -- Excitement. Or par; or ayar; from uwr a city in the widest sense.">Jerusalem</a> <a href="/hebrew/5221.htm" title="5221: huk·kə·ṯāh (V-Hofal-Perf-3fs) -- To smite. A primitive root; to strike.">had been struck down—</a> <a href="/hebrew/2088.htm" title="2088: haz·zeh (Art:: Pro-ms) -- This, here. A primitive word; the masculine demonstrative pronoun, this or that.">on that</a> <a href="/hebrew/6106.htm" title="6106: bə·‘e·ṣem (Prep-b:: N-fsc) -- Bone, substance, self. From atsam; a bone; by extension, the body; figuratively, the substance, i.e. Selfsame.">very</a> <a href="/hebrew/3117.htm" title="3117: hay·yō·wm (Art:: N-ms) -- Day. From an unused root meaning to be hot; a day, whether literal, or figurative.">day</a> <a href="/hebrew/3027.htm" title="3027: yaḏ- (N-fsc) -- Hand (indicating power, means, direction, etc.)">the hand</a> <a href="/hebrew/3068.htm" title="3068: Yah·weh (N-proper-ms) -- The proper name of the God of Israel. From hayah; self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.">of the LORD</a> <a href="/hebrew/1961.htm" title="1961: hā·yə·ṯāh (V-Qal-Perf-3fs) -- To fall out, come to pass, become, be. A primitive root; to exist, i.e. Be or become, come to pass.">was</a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: ‘ā·lay (Prep:: 1cs) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications.">upon me,</a> <a href="/hebrew/935.htm" title="935: way·yā·ḇê (Conj-w:: V-Hifil-ConsecImperf-3ms) -- To come in, come, go in, go. A primitive root; to go or come.">and He took</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’ō·ṯî (DirObjM:: 1cs) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self.">me</a> <a href="/hebrew/8033.htm" title="8033: šām·māh (Adv:: 3fs) -- There, thither. A primitive particle; there then; often thither, or thence.">there.</a> 2In visions of God He took me to the land of Israel and set me on a very high mountain, on whose southern slope was a structure that resembled a city.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/ezekiel/1-1.htm">Ezekiel 1:1-3</a> In the thirtieth year, on the fifth day of the fourth month, while I was among the exiles by the River Kebar, the heavens opened and I saw visions of God. / On the fifth day of the month—it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin— / the word of the LORD came directly to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the River Kebar. And there the LORD’s hand was upon him. <a href="/ezekiel/33-21.htm">Ezekiel 33:21</a> In the twelfth year of our exile, on the fifth day of the tenth month, a fugitive from Jerusalem came to me and reported, “The city has been taken!” <a href="/2_kings/25-1.htm">2 Kings 25:1-4</a> So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army. They encamped outside the city and built a siege wall all around it. / And the city was kept under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year. / By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food. ... <a href="/jeremiah/52-4.htm">Jeremiah 52:4-5</a> So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army. They encamped outside the city and built a siege wall all around it. / And the city was kept under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year. <a href="/2_chronicles/36-17.htm">2 Chronicles 36:17-21</a> So He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who put their young men to the sword in the sanctuary, sparing neither young men nor young women, neither elderly nor infirm. God gave them all into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, / who carried off everything to Babylon—all the articles of the house of God, both large and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the king and his officials. / Then the Chaldeans set fire to the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem. They burned down all the palaces and destroyed every article of value. ... <a href="/leviticus/25-9.htm">Leviticus 25:9-10</a> Then you are to sound the horn far and wide on the tenth day of the seventh month, the Day of Atonement. You shall sound it throughout your land. / So you are to consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty in the land for all its inhabitants. It shall be your Jubilee, when each of you is to return to his property and to his clan. <a href="/daniel/9-2.htm">Daniel 9:2</a> in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the sacred books, according to the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years. <a href="/isaiah/61-1.htm">Isaiah 61:1-2</a> The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners, / to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor and the day of our God’s vengeance, to comfort all who mourn, <a href="/jeremiah/25-11.htm">Jeremiah 25:11-12</a> And this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years. / But when seventy years are complete, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their guilt, declares the LORD, and I will make it an everlasting desolation. <a href="/jeremiah/29-10.htm">Jeremiah 29:10</a> For this is what the LORD says: “When Babylon’s seventy years are complete, I will attend to you and confirm My promise to restore you to this place. <a href="/zechariah/7-5.htm">Zechariah 7:5</a> “Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, was it really for Me that you fasted? <a href="/revelation/21-10.htm">Revelation 21:10</a> And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the holy city of Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God, <a href="/revelation/11-1.htm">Revelation 11:1-2</a> Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff and was told, “Go and measure the temple of God and the altar, and count the number of worshipers there. / But exclude the courtyard outside the temple. Do not measure it, because it has been given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for 42 months. <a href="/hebrews/8-5.htm">Hebrews 8:5</a> The place where they serve is a copy and shadow of what is in heaven. This is why Moses was warned when he was about to build the tabernacle: “See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.” <a href="/acts/7-44.htm">Acts 7:44</a> Our fathers had the tabernacle of the Testimony with them in the wilderness. It was constructed exactly as God had directed Moses, according to the pattern he had seen.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>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 on me, and brought me thither.In the five On Tuesday, April<a href="/ezekiel/40-20.htm">Ezekiel 40:20</a> And the gate of the outward court that looked toward the north, he measured the length thereof, and the breadth thereof.<a href="/ezekiel/1-2.htm">Ezekiel 1:2</a> In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity,<a href="/ezekiel/8-1.htm">Ezekiel 8:1</a> 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.after<a href="/ezekiel/33-21.htm">Ezekiel 33:21</a> And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, that one that had escaped out of Jerusalem came unto me, saying, The city is smitten.<a href="/2_kings/25-1.htm">2 Kings 25:1-30</a> And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about… <a href="/jeremiah/39-1.htm">Jeremiah 39:1-18</a> In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and they besieged it… selfsame<a href="/exodus/12-41.htm">Exodus 12:41</a> And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.hand<a href="/ezekiel/1-3.htm">Ezekiel 1:3</a> 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.<a href="/ezekiel/3-14.htm">Ezekiel 3:14,22</a> So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was strong upon me… <a href="/ezekiel/11-24.htm">Ezekiel 11:24</a> Afterwards the spirit took me up, and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the vision that I had seen went up from me.<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/ezekiel/25-9.htm">Beginning</a> <a href="/ezekiel/39-28.htm">Captivity</a> <a href="/ezekiel/39-16.htm">City</a> <a href="/ezekiel/39-28.htm">Exile</a> <a href="/ezekiel/11-1.htm">Five</a> <a href="/isaiah/36-1.htm">Fourteenth</a> <a href="/ezekiel/39-23.htm">Hand</a> <a href="/ezekiel/33-21.htm">Month</a> <a href="/ezekiel/24-2.htm">Selfsame</a> <a href="/ezekiel/39-3.htm">Smitten</a> <a href="/ezekiel/33-21.htm">Struck</a> <a href="/ezekiel/33-21.htm">Tenth</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-46.htm">Thither</a> <a href="/ezekiel/29-17.htm">Twentieth</a> <a href="/jeremiah/52-31.htm">Twenty-Fifth</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/ezekiel/42-12.htm">Beginning</a> <a href="/daniel/2-25.htm">Captivity</a> <a href="/ezekiel/40-2.htm">City</a> <a href="/amos/1-5.htm">Exile</a> <a href="/ezekiel/40-7.htm">Five</a> <a href="/ezekiel/45-21.htm">Fourteenth</a> <a href="/ezekiel/40-3.htm">Hand</a> <a href="/ezekiel/45-18.htm">Month</a> <a href="/matthew/8-13.htm">Selfsame</a> <a href="/daniel/2-34.htm">Smitten</a> <a href="/daniel/2-34.htm">Struck</a> <a href="/ezekiel/45-11.htm">Tenth</a> <a href="/ezekiel/40-3.htm">Thither</a> <a href="/daniel/10-4.htm">Twentieth</a> <a href="/nehemiah/6-15.htm">Twenty-Fifth</a><div class="vheading2">Ezekiel 40</div>1. <a href="/ezekiel/40-1.htm">The time, manner, and end of the vision of the city and temple</a> 6. <a href="/ezekiel/40-6.htm">The description of the east gate of the outer court</a> 20. <a href="/ezekiel/40-20.htm">of the north gate</a> 24. <a href="/ezekiel/40-24.htm">of the south gate</a> 27. <a href="/ezekiel/40-27.htm">of the south gate of the inner court</a> 32. <a href="/ezekiel/40-32.htm">of the east gate</a> 35. <a href="/ezekiel/40-35.htm">and of the north gate</a> 39. <a href="/ezekiel/40-39.htm">Eight tables</a> 44. <a href="/ezekiel/40-44.htm">The chambers</a> 48. <a href="/ezekiel/40-48.htm">The porch of the house</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/ezekiel/40.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/ezekiel/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/ezekiel/40.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div>In the twenty-fifth year of our exile This phrase marks a significant period in the Babylonian captivity of the Israelites, which began in 597 BC with the first deportation. The twenty-fifth year would place this vision around 573 BC. The exile was a time of deep reflection and transformation for the Jewish people, as they were removed from their homeland and temple, which was central to their worship and identity.at the beginning of the year The beginning of the year likely refers to the month of Nisan in the Hebrew calendar, which is significant as it marks the start of the religious year. This time is associated with the Passover, a festival commemorating the Israelites' deliverance from Egypt, symbolizing hope and renewal.on the tenth day of the month The tenth day of Nisan is notable in Jewish tradition as the day when the Passover lamb was selected, as described in <a href="/exodus/12-3.htm">Exodus 12:3</a>. This connection underscores themes of redemption and deliverance, which are central to Ezekiel's visions of restoration.in the fourteenth year after Jerusalem had been struck down This reference to the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC by the Babylonians serves as a reminder of the judgment that befell the city due to the people's unfaithfulness. The fourteen-year gap highlights a period of mourning and reflection, setting the stage for Ezekiel's vision of hope and restoration.on that very day The specificity of "that very day" emphasizes the importance and divine timing of the vision. It suggests that God's revelations are precise and purposeful, aligning with significant dates in Israel's history to convey deeper meanings.the hand of the LORD was upon me This phrase indicates divine inspiration and empowerment. Throughout the book of Ezekiel, the "hand of the LORD" signifies God's direct intervention and guidance, enabling the prophet to receive and communicate His messages.and He took me there God's transportation of Ezekiel in visions is a recurring theme, illustrating the prophet's role as a mediator between God and His people. This journey is not just physical but spiritual, as Ezekiel is shown the future restoration of the temple, symbolizing God's enduring presence and faithfulness to His covenant.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/e/ezekiel.htm">Ezekiel</a> A prophet and priest, Ezekiel is the central figure receiving visions from God. His ministry occurs during the Babylonian exile. 2. <a href="/topical/t/the_exile.htm">The Exile</a> Refers to the Babylonian captivity of the Israelites, a significant period of judgment and reflection for the nation of Israel. 3. <a href="/topical/t/the_city.htm">The City</a> This refers to Jerusalem, which had been captured and destroyed by the Babylonians fourteen years prior to this vision. 4. <a href="/topical/t/the_hand_of_the_lord.htm">The Hand of the LORD</a> A phrase indicating divine intervention and guidance, showing that Ezekiel's vision is directly from God. 5. <a href="/topical/t/the_vision.htm">The Vision</a> This chapter begins a detailed vision of a new temple, symbolizing hope and restoration for Israel.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/g/god's_timing_is_perfect.htm">God's Timing is Perfect</a> The vision comes at a specific time, showing that God’s plans unfold according to His perfect timing. Trust in God's timing in your own life, even when circumstances seem bleak. <a href="/topical/h/hope_in_exile.htm">Hope in Exile</a> Even in the midst of judgment and exile, God provides a vision of hope and restoration. In difficult times, focus on the hope and promises God has given. <a href="/topical/d/divine_guidance.htm">Divine Guidance</a> The "hand of the LORD" upon Ezekiel signifies divine guidance. Seek God's guidance in your daily life through prayer and scripture. <a href="/topical/r/restoration_and_renewal.htm">Restoration and Renewal</a> The vision of a new temple symbolizes spiritual renewal. Reflect on areas in your life that need restoration and seek God’s transformative power.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_ezekiel_40.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Ezekiel 40</a> <a href="/q/why_is_ezekiel_40's_temple_design_unique.htm">Why does Ezekiel 40 describe a Temple layout that differs so widely from known historical designs? </a> <a href="/q/why_do_ezekiel's_and_1_kings'_temples_differ.htm">What explains inconsistencies between the Temple vision in Ezekiel 40 and other biblical Temple descriptions, such as in 1 Kings 6-7?</a> <a href="/q/is_ezekiel_44's_temple_purely_symbolic.htm">Ezekiel 44's temple regulations appear highly specific, yet no archaeological site conclusively matches this description--could this be evidence the prophecy was purely symbolic or never fulfilled?</a> <a href="/q/how_to_reconcile_ezekiel_40's_details.htm">How should one reconcile the detailed architectural descriptions in Ezekiel 40 with the absence of any clear historical record of its fulfillment? </a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/ezekiel/40.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(1) In the five and twentieth year.--It is the habit of Ezekiel in giving the year to make no mention of the era from which it was reckoned; but in a few important passages (<a href="/ezekiel/1-2.htm" title="In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity,">Ezekiel 1:2</a>; <a href="/ezekiel/12-21.htm" title="And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,">Ezekiel 12:21</a>, and here) it is described as "of our captivity." This vision was seen "in the beginning of the year." The Jews always reckoned the month Abib, or Nisan, in which the Passover was celebrated, as the beginning of the year, according to the command given in <a href="/exodus/12-1.htm" title="And the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt saying,">Exodus 12:1</a>, and the "tenth day" of that month was the day in which the preparations for the Passover began, and hence a most appropriate season for this vision of the Church of the future. Others consider that this was a Jubile year (for which there is no evidence); and since the Jubile began at the great fast of the Atonement, on the tenth day of the seventh month, it is thought that this is the day here intended. At a much later time the Jews sometimes reckoned the years from the Jubile, but there is nothing to show that this custom began so early. In either case the text distinctly says that it was fourteen years after the destruction of Jerusalem; a substantial period had, therefore, elapsed in which this great judgment would have produced its effect upon the minds of the exiles; there was thus now occasion for bringing before them the brighter hopes of the future.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/ezekiel/40.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verses 1-4. - The introduction to the vision. Verse 1. - In the five and twentieth year of our captivity; i.e. in B.C. 575, assuming Jehoiakin's deportation to have taken place B.C. 600, i.e. in the fiftieth year of the prophet's age, in the twenty-fifth of his prophetic calling, and in the fourteenth after the fall of Jerusalem. As the last note of time was the twelfth year (<a href="/ezekiel/32-17.htm">Ezekiel 32:17</a>), it may be assumed the interval was largely occupied in receiving and delivering the prophecies that fall between those dates, though it is more than likely a period of silence preceded the vision of which this last section of the book preserves an account. If not the last of the prophet's utterances (see <a href="/ezekiel/29-17.htm">Ezekiel 29:17</a>), it was beyond question the grandest and most momentous. Accordingly, the prophet notes with his customary exactness that the vision came to him in the beginning of the year, which Hitzig, whom Dr. Currey, in the 'Speaker's Commentary' follows, believes to have been a jubilee year, which began on the tenth day of the seventh month. As, however, the practice of commencing the year with this month was not introduced among the Jews till after the exile, and as Ezekiel everywhere follows the purely Mosaic arrangement of the year, the presumption is that the beginning of the year here alluded to was the month Abib, and that the tenth day of the month was the day on which the Torah enjoined the selection of a lamb for the Passover. Indeed, the two clauses in Ezekiel read like an abbreviation of the Mosaic statute (<a href="/exodus/12-2.htm">Exodus 12:2, 3</a>) - a circumstance sufficiently striking and probably significant, though emphasis should not, with Hengstenberg, be laid upon the fact that every word in Ezekiel's copy is found in the Exodus original. On that day, which was the anniversary of the beginning of a merciful deliverance to Israel in Egypt, of the initial step in a gracious process of transforming Pharaoh's captives into a nation, - on that day (for emphasis the selfsame day, as in <a href="/ezekiel/24-2.htm">Ezekiel 24:2</a>), the prophet's soul was rapt into an ecstasy (see on Ezekiel 1:3), in which he seemed to be transported thither, i.e. towards the smitten city, and a disclosure made to him concerning that new community which Jehovah was about to form out of old Israel. <a href="/commentaries/ezekiel/40-1.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>In the twenty-fifth בְּעֶשְׂרִ֣ים (bə·‘eś·rîm) Preposition-b | Number - common plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6242.htm">Strong's 6242: </a> Twenty, twentieth year שָׁנָ֣ה (šā·nāh) Noun - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8141.htm">Strong's 8141: </a> A year of our exile, לְ֠גָלוּתֵנוּ (lə·ḡā·lū·ṯê·nū) Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1546.htm">Strong's 1546: </a> Captivity, exiles at the beginning בְּרֹ֨אשׁ (bə·rōš) Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7218.htm">Strong's 7218: </a> The head of the year, הַשָּׁנָ֜ה (haš·šā·nāh) Article | Noun - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8141.htm">Strong's 8141: </a> A year on the tenth בֶּעָשׂ֣וֹר (be·‘ā·śō·wr) Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6218.htm">Strong's 6218: </a> Ten, by abbreviated form ten strings, a decachord day of the month— לַחֹ֗דֶשׁ (la·ḥō·ḏeš) Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2320.htm">Strong's 2320: </a> The new moon, a month in the fourteenth בְּאַרְבַּ֤ע (bə·’ar·ba‘) Preposition-b | Number - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_702.htm">Strong's 702: </a> Four year שָׁנָ֔ה (šā·nāh) Noun - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8141.htm">Strong's 8141: </a> A year after אַחַ֕ר (’a·ḥar) Preposition <a href="/hebrew/strongs_310.htm">Strong's 310: </a> The hind or following part Jerusalem הָעִ֑יר (hā·‘îr) Article | Noun - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5892.htm">Strong's 5892: </a> Excitement had been struck down— הֻכְּתָ֖ה (huk·kə·ṯāh) Verb - Hofal - Perfect - third person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5221.htm">Strong's 5221: </a> To strike on that הַזֶּ֗ה (haz·zeh) Article | Pronoun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2088.htm">Strong's 2088: </a> This, that very בְּעֶ֣צֶם ׀ (bə·‘e·ṣem) Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6106.htm">Strong's 6106: </a> A bone, the body, the substance, selfsame day הַיּ֣וֹם (hay·yō·wm) Article | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3117.htm">Strong's 3117: </a> A day the hand יַד־ (yaḏ-) Noun - feminine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3027.htm">Strong's 3027: </a> A hand of the LORD יְהוָ֔ה (Yah·weh) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3068.htm">Strong's 3068: </a> LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel was הָיְתָ֤ה (hā·yə·ṯāh) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1961.htm">Strong's 1961: </a> To fall out, come to pass, become, be upon me, עָלַי֙ (‘ā·lay) Preposition | first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5921.htm">Strong's 5921: </a> Above, over, upon, against and He took וַיָּבֵ֥א (way·yā·ḇê) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_935.htm">Strong's 935: </a> To come in, come, go in, go me אֹתִ֖י (’ō·ṯî) Direct object marker | first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_853.htm">Strong's 853: </a> Untranslatable mark of the accusative case there. שָֽׁמָּה׃ (šām·māh) Adverb | third person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8033.htm">Strong's 8033: </a> There, then, thither <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/ezekiel/40-1.htm">Ezekiel 40:1 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/ezekiel/40-1.htm">Ezekiel 40:1 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/ezekiel/40-1.htm">Ezekiel 40:1 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/ezekiel/40-1.htm">Ezekiel 40:1 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/ezekiel/40-1.htm">Ezekiel 40:1 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/ezekiel/40-1.htm">Ezekiel 40:1 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/ezekiel/40-1.htm">Ezekiel 40:1 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/ezekiel/40-1.htm">Ezekiel 40:1 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/ezekiel/40-1.htm">Ezekiel 40:1 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/ezekiel/40-1.htm">Ezekiel 40:1 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/ezekiel/40-1.htm">OT Prophets: Ezekiel 40:1 In the five and twentieth year (Ezek. 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