“Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,”
In the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, the word of God comes to Ezekiel announcing that on this very day the king of Babylon laid siege to Jerusalem. The specific dating establishes the prophecy's contemporaneous relevance to the historical siege. The date becomes theologically significant as marking God's announcement of judgment at the moment of human military action.
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