Ezekiel 1:2
On the fifth day of the month— it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin—
What it says
The date is tied to the fifth year of King Jehoiachin's exile.
What it is doing
This verse fixes the vision inside Judah's historical humiliation.
In context
1In the thirtieth year, on the fifth day of the fourth month, while I was among the exiles by the River Kebar, 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 directly to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the River Kebar. And there the LORD’s hand was upon him.