Ezekiel 20:1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹ In the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, certain elders of Israel came to consult the Lord and sat down before me.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month, that certain of the elders of Israel came to enquire of the LORD, and sat before me.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ IN THE seventh year, in the fifth [month], on the tenth [day] of the month [after the beginning of the Babylonian captivity, which was to last seventy years], certain of the elders of Israel came to inquire of the Lord and sat down before me [Ezekiel, in Babylonia]. [Jer. 25:11; 29:10.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month, that certain of the elders of Israel came to inquire of Jehovah, and sat before me.

Common English Bible

¹ In the seventh year, on the tenth day of the fifth month, some of Israel’s elders came to inquire of the LORD. As they were sitting with me,

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ And it happened that, in the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth of the month, men from the elders of Israel arrived, so that they might inquire of the Lord, and they sat before me.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month, there came men of the ancients of Israel to inquire of the Lord: and they sat before me.

Ezekiel 20:1 Cross References

2 Kings 3:13

Elisha said to the king of Israel, “What have I to do with you? Go to your father’s prophets or to your mother’s.” But the king of Israel said to him, “No; it is the Lord who has summoned these three kings to hand them over to Moab.”

2 Kings 6:32

So he dispatched a man from his presence. Now Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. Before the messenger arrived, Elisha said to the elders, “Are you aware that this murderer has sent someone to take off my head? When the messenger comes, see that you shut the door and hold it closed against him. Is not the sound of his master’s feet behind him?”

Isaiah 29:13

The Lord said: Because these people draw near with their mouths and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me and their worship of me is a human commandment learned by rote,

Isaiah 58:2

Yet day after day they seek me and delight to know my ways, as if they were a nation that practiced righteousness and did not forsake the ordinance of their God; they ask of me righteous judgments; they want God on their side.

Jeremiah 21:2

“Please inquire of the Lord on our behalf, for King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon is making war against us; perhaps the Lord will perform a wonderful deed for us, as he has often done, and Nebuchadrezzar will withdraw.”

Jeremiah 37:17

Then King Zedekiah sent for him and received him. The king questioned him secretly in his house and said, “Is there any word from the Lord?” Jeremiah said, “There is!” Then he said, “You shall be handed over to the king of Babylon.”

Ezekiel 1:2

On the fifth day of the month (it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin),

Ezekiel 20:2

And the word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 24:1

In the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 26:1

In the twelfth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 29:1

In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 29:17

In the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 30:20

In the eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 31:1

In the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 32:1

In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 40:1

In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was struck down, on that very day, the hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me there.

Ezekiel 8:1

In the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house with the elders of Judah sitting before me, the hand of the Lord God fell upon me there.

Ezekiel 8:11

Before them stood seventy of the elders of the house of Israel, with Jaazaniah son of Shaphan standing among them. Each had his censer in his hand, and the fragrant cloud of incense was ascending.

Matthew 22:16

So they sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are sincere, and teach the way of God in accordance with truth, and show deference to no one, for you do not regard people with partiality.

Luke 10:39

She had a sister named Mary, who sat at Jesus’s feet and listened to what he was saying.

Luke 2:46

After three days they found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.

Luke 8:35

Then people came out to see what had happened, and when they came to Jesus, they found the man from whom the demons had gone sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind. And they became frightened.

Acts 22:3

“I am a Jew born in Tarsus in Cilicia but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, educated strictly according to our ancestral law, being zealous for God, just as all of you are today.