Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 40:1

1 IN the five and twentieth year of our captivity , in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the moneth, in the fourteenth year after the city was smitten , in the self-same day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and brought me thither .

Of those that with Ieconiah, who is also called Iehojachin, were carried away into Captivity eleven years before Ierusalem was sackt, and burnt. And this falls in with the 3374th. year of the World, or near it; about 574. years before Christs Incarnation.

In the month Nisan.

The day that the Paschal Lamb was to be taken up in order to the Feast on the 10th. day, on which Israel went out of Egypt.

Which appears thus, the City was smitten in the 11th, year of Ieconiahs Captivity, or 11th. year of Zedekiahs Reign, to which, if you adde fourteen, they amount to twenty five.

Taken, plundered, and spoiled by the Babylonians.

This is very particularly noted, as of some weight.

The spirit of prophesie, vid. chap. 1.3, let. d. and 3.14. let. x. and 8.1. let. g.

Not by local motion carrying his body, but in visional representation, shewing the Prophet what he relates to us.

To Ierusalem, the place where it did stand, as appears in the next verse.

Marginal references: chap. 33.21.