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Our chapter bears the date \u201cthe ninth year, on the tenth day of the tenth month,\u201d which, according to 2 Kings 25:1 and Jeremiah 52:4, marks the date on which Nebuchadnezzar began his siege of Jerusalem. On the Jewish calendar, that is the 10<\/span>th<\/span> of Tevet, on which we observe a public fast day in commemoration of the launching of that siege.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Unlike Jeremiah, however, who was an eyewitness to the siege and destruction, Ezekiel, on that day, was far away in Babylon. To Radak (v.2), this suggested the following:<\/span><\/p>\n

He [Ezekiel] was command to write down the date and show it to the exiles, because on that day the king of Babylon laid siege; and when they would later receive the report that it really happened on the very day the prophet had written down they would know that a prophet was among them and what he had said in God\u2019s name was true, and they would no longer pay heed to the false prophets.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moshe Greenberg, however, spotted an anomaly. Whereas the usual style of Ezekiel has the phrase \u201cthe word of the Lord came to me\u201d following the date\u2014cf. chapters 1, 8, 20, 26, 29, 31, 32 (vs. 1, 17)\u2014here it precedes it. He speculated:<\/span><\/p>\n

It is likely that originally no date appeared in the revelation formula (as, e.g., in 23:1 and mostly), and that the present one was subsequently copied from Kings into the margin and later into the text. (Anchor Bible, <\/span>Ezekiel<\/span><\/i>, 496)<\/span><\/p>\n

While untraditional, his explanation is credible when we recall that the Sages denied Ezekiel the authorship of his own book, attributing it, instead, to the Men of the Great Assembly (Baba Batra 14b), allowing the possibility of editorial inserts. 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