Albert Barnes Commentary Ezekiel 8:1

"And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth [month], in the fifth [day] of the month, as I sat in my house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord Jehovah fell there upon me." — Ezekiel 8:1 (ASV)

The elders of Judah - The prophet’s fellow-exiles are no longer unwilling to hear him (Ezekiel 2:1–10). They sat as mourners. The message here is not as in (Ezekiel 6:2), but distinctly to Judah, that portion of the people whose exile Ezekiel shared.