In the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me:
God knew Jerusalem was being sieged that very day, though Ezekiel sat in Babylon hundreds of miles away. When it came to pass exactly as the prophet announced, the people would have to admit he spoke truly from Heaven; his predictions, like his news, came from the same source.
AI summary
Commenting on Ezekiel 24:1-14
Again, in the ninth year,.... Of Jehoiachin's captivity, from which the dates of Ezekiel are, and of Zedekiah's reign, which commenced together: in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month; the month Tebet, which answers to part of our December, and part of January; so that it was at the latter end of December when this prophecy was given out; at which...
Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth [day] of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying, (a) Of Jeconiah's captivity and of the reign of Zedekiah, . (b) Called Tebeth, which contains part of December and part of January: in which month and day Nebuchadnezzar besieged Jerusalem.