Ezekiel 1:1

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Now it happened 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.

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Babylon, in the land of Chaldea (southern Mesopotamia, modern Iraq), was the center of the empire that had deported many Judeans. The Chebar was likely an irrigation canal near Nippur, where Ezekiel lived among the exiles when God’s vision came to him.

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Ezekiel 1:1 mentions Babylon, Chaldea and Chebar.

Photo of Babylon — Babylon · Radomir Vrbovsky

Photo of Chaldea — Chaldea · M.Lubinski from Iraq,USA.