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Ezekiel 1:1

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in the thirtieth: Numbers 4:3; Luke 3:23

as I: Ecclesiastes 9:1-2; Jeremiah 24:5-7

captives: Heb. captivity

by the river: Ezekiel 1:3, Ezekiel 3:15, Ezekiel 3:23, Ezekiel 10:15, Ezekiel 10:20, Ezekiel 10:22, Ezekiel 43:3

Chebar: Chebar, called now Khabour, is a river of Mesopotamia, which taking its rise in the Mysian mountains, falls into the Euphrates near Carchemish, or Circesioum, now Karkisia, about 35 degrees 20 minutes n lat. and 40 degrees 25 minutes e long.

the heavens: Matthew 3:16; Luke 3:21; John 1:51; Acts 7:56, Acts 10:11; Revelation 4:1, Revelation 19:11

I saw: Ezekiel 8:3, Ezekiel 11:24; Genesis 15:1, Genesis 46:2; Numbers 12:6; Isaiah 1:1; Daniel 8:1-2; Hosea 12:10; Joel 2:28; Matthew 17:9; Acts 9:10-12, Acts 10:3; 2 Corinthians 12:1

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