Timeline of the Bible · The Divided Kingdom
Ezekiel
Prophet · 595–572 BC
What the Bible Says
- “the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity” Ezekiel 1:2
- “in the seven and twentieth year” Ezekiel 29:17
Each year here fits these numbers, as the years between the points they count from.
The Years
- Began 595 BC
- “of the carrying away of Iehojachim, al. Icconia, in the beginning thereof, in the fifth day of the fourth moneth”
- Ended 572 BC
- “In the 1 day of the 1. month of the 27 year of the captivity of Jeconia”
In Babylon, by the river Chebar (Ezekiel 1:1), counting his years from the captivity of Jehoiachin; the last he dates is the seven and twentieth (Ezekiel 29:17).
Dated by Archbishop James Ussher’s Annals of the World (1658), quoted as printed, whose dates were printed in the margins of King James Bibles for two centuries.
