Ezekiel 1:1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹ In the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I was among the exiles by the River Chebar, the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ NOW [when I was] in [my] thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was in the midst of captivity beside the river Chebar [in Babylonia], the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ 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 Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.

Common English Bible

¹ In the thirtieth year, on the fifth day of the fourth month, I was with the exiles at the Chebar River when the heavens opened and I saw visions of God.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ And it happened that, in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth of the month, when I was in the midst of the captives beside the river Chebar, the heavens were opened, and I saw the visions of God.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, when I was in the midst of the captives by the river Chobar, the heavens were opened, and I saw the visions of God.

Ezekiel 1:1 Cross References

Genesis 15:1

After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, “Do not be afraid, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.”

Genesis 46:2

God spoke to Israel in visions of the night and said, “Jacob, Jacob.” And he said, “Here I am.”

Psalm 137:1

By the rivers of Babylon— there we sat down, and there we wept when we remembered Zion.

Exodus 24:10

and they saw the God of Israel. Under his feet there was something like a pavement of sapphire stone, like the very heaven for clearness.

Isaiah 1:1

The vision of Isaiah son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

Isaiah 6:1

In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lofty, and the hem of his robe filled the temple.

Jeremiah 29:15

Because you have said, “The Lord has raised up prophets for us in Babylon,”

Ezekiel 1:3

the word of the Lord came to the priest Ezekiel son of Buzi in the land of the Chaldeans by the River Chebar, and the hand of the Lord was on him there.

Ezekiel 10:1

Then I looked, and above the dome that was over the heads of the cherubim there appeared above them something like a sapphire, in form resembling a throne.

Ezekiel 10:10

And as for their appearance, the four looked alike, something like a wheel within a wheel.

Ezekiel 10:15

The cherubim rose up. These were the living creatures that I saw by the River Chebar.

Ezekiel 10:20

These were the living creatures that I saw underneath the God of Israel by the River Chebar, and I knew that they were cherubim.

Ezekiel 10:22

As for what their faces were like, they were the same faces whose appearance I had seen by the River Chebar. Each one moved straight ahead.

Ezekiel 11:24

The spirit lifted me up and brought me in a vision by the spirit of God into Chaldea, to the exiles. Then the vision that I had seen left me.

Ezekiel 3:15

I came to the exiles at Tel-abib, who lived by the River Chebar. And I sat there among them, stunned, for seven days.

Ezekiel 3:23

So I rose up and went out into the valley, and the glory of the Lord stood there, like the glory that I had seen by the River Chebar, and I fell on my face.

Ezekiel 40:2

He brought me, in visions of God, to the land of Israel and set me down upon a very high mountain on which was a structure like a city to the south.

Ezekiel 43:3

The vision I saw was like the vision that I had seen when he came to destroy the city and like the vision that I had seen by the River Chebar, and I fell upon my face.

Ezekiel 8:3

It stretched out the form of a hand and took me by a lock of my head, and the spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and brought me in visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the gateway of the inner court that faces north, to the seat of the image of jealousy that provokes to jealousy.

Hosea 12:10

I spoke to the prophets; it was I who multiplied visions, and through the prophets I will bring destruction.

Joel 2:28

Then afterward I will pour out my spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.

Numbers 12:6

And he said, “Hear my words: When there are prophets among you, I the Lord make myself known to them in visions; I speak to them in dreams.

Numbers 4:3

from thirty years old up to fifty years old, all who qualify to do work relating to the tent of meeting.

Matthew 17:9

As they were coming down the mountain, Jesus ordered them, “Tell no one about the vision until after the Son of Man has been raised from the dead.”

Matthew 3:16

And when Jesus had been baptized, just as he came up from the water, suddenly the heavens were opened to him and he saw God’s Spirit descending like a dove and alighting on him.

Mark 1:10

And just as he was coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens torn apart and the Spirit descending like a dove upon him.

Luke 3:21

Now when all the people were baptized and when Jesus also had been baptized and was praying, the heaven was opened,

Luke 3:23

Jesus was about thirty years old when he began his work. He was the son (as was thought) of Joseph son of Heli,

John 1:51

And he said to him, “Very truly, I tell you, you will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.”

Acts 10:11

He saw the heaven opened and something like a large sheet coming down, being lowered to the ground by its four corners.

Acts 10:3

One afternoon at about three o’clock he had a vision in which he clearly saw an angel of God coming in and saying to him, “Cornelius.”

Acts 7:56

“Look,” he said, “I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”

2 Corinthians 12:1

It is necessary to boast; nothing is to be gained by it, but I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord.

Revelation 19:11

Then I saw heaven opened, and there was a white horse! Its rider is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and wages war.

Revelation 4:1

After this I looked, and there in heaven a door stood open! And the first voice, which I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.”