Ezekiel’s Vision of the Divine Chariot
1In the thirtieth year, on the fifth day of the fourth month, when I was in the community of exiles by the Chebar Canal, the heavens opened and I saw visions of God. 2On the fifth day of the month—it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin—3the word of the Lord came to the priest Ezekiel son of Buzi, by the Chebar Canal, in the land of…
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Ezekiel 8:1–9:7
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