From Thirty Years Old and Upward Even Until Fifty Years Old
Ezekiel opened his writings with these words, “Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God. In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin’s captivity” (Ezekiel 1:1-2). He was a captive in the land of Babylon, and it had been five years since he was taken by the Babylonians along with Jehoiachin as described in this passage: “And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants did besiege it. And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign…. And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths” (2 Kings 24:11-14). Ezekiel was one o...