Ezekiel 33:21 “In the twelfth year of our exile, on the fifth day of the tenth month,…”

Ezekiel 33:21

In the twelfth year of our exile, on the fifth day of the tenth month, a fugitive from Jerusalem came to me and reported, “The city has been taken!”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, that one that had escaped out of Jerusalem came unto me, saying, The city is smitten.

World English Bible

In the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, one who had escaped out of Jerusalem came to me, saying, “The city has been defeated!”

American Standard Version

And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, that one that had escaped out of Jerusalem came unto me, saying, The city is smitten.

Geneva Bible 1599

Also in the twelfth yere of our captiuitie, in the tenth moneth, and in the fift day of the moneth, one that had escaped out of Ierusalem, came vnto me, and said, The citie is smitten.

Darby Translation

And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth [month], on the fifth of the month, that one who had escaped out of Jerusalem came unto me, saying, The city is smitten!

Young's Literal Translation

And it cometh to pass, in the twelfth year — in the tenth [month], in the fifth of the month — of our removal, come in unto me doth one who is escaped from Jerusalem, saying, 'The city hath been smitten.'

Bible in Basic English

Now in the twelfth year after we had been taken away prisoners, in the tenth month, on the fifth day of the month, one who had got away in flight from Jerusalem came to me, saying, The town has been taken.

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Cross references

“in the twelfth”

Ezekiel 1:2

Ezekiel 1:2 · BSB

On the fifth day of the month—it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin—

“one”

Ezekiel 24:26 Ezekiel 24:27

Ezekiel 24:26 · BSB

on that day a fugitive will come and tell you the news.

Ezekiel 24:27 · BSB

On that day your mouth will be opened to him who has escaped; you will speak and no longer be mute. So you will be a sign to them, and they will know that I am the LORD.”

“The city”

2 Kings 24:4–7 2 Chronicles 36:17–21 Jeremiah 52:4–14 Jeremiah 39:2–8

2 Kings 24:4–7 · BSB

and also for the innocent blood he had shed. For he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the LORD was unwilling to forgive.

2 Chronicles 36:17–21 · BSB

So He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who put their young men to the sword in the sanctuary, sparing neither young men nor young women, neither elderly nor infirm. God gave them all into the hand of Ne…

Jeremiah 52:4–14 · BSB

So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army. They encamped outside the city and built a siege wall all arou…

Jeremiah 39:2–8 · BSB

And on the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year, the city was breached.

Also

Ezekiel 32:1 Ezekiel 40:1 Jeremiah 39:1–8 2 Kings 25:4 2 Kings 25:10

Ezekiel 32:1 · BSB

In the twelfth year, on the first day of the twelfth month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Ezekiel 40:1 · BSB

In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month—in the fourteenth year after Jerusalem had been struck down—on that very day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and He too…

Jeremiah 39:1–8 · BSB

In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army and laid siege to the city.

2 Kings 25:4 · BSB

Then the city was breached; and though the Chaldeans had surrounded the city, all the men of war fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden. They headed toward the Arabah,

2 Kings 25:10 · BSB

And the whole army of the Chaldeans under the captain of the guard broke down the walls around Jerusalem.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

20Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ But I will judge each of you according to his ways, O house of Israel.”

22Now the evening before the fugitive arrived, the hand of the LORD was upon me, and He opened my mouth before the man came to me in the morning. So my mouth was opened and I was no longer mute.

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