Ezekiel 33:21

¹⁹ But if a wicked man turns from his wickedness and does what is just and right, he will live because of this.

²⁰ Yet 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.”

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!”

²² Now 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.

²³ Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: 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!”
KJV: 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.
WEB: 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!”
ASV: 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.
DARBY: 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!
BLB: And it came to pass, in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth [month], on the fifth of the month, [that] an escapee came to me from Jerusalem, and he said, “The city has been struck!”

ÅB: I det tolvte år etter at vi var bortført, i den tiende måned, på den femte dag i måneden, kom det noen flyktninger fra Jerusalem til meg og sa: Staden er inntatt.
OTB: Nå i det tolvte året av vårt eksil, på den femte dagen i den tiende måneden, kom en mann som hadde rømt fra Jerusalem til meg og sa: "Byen er tatt."
B1930: I det tolvte år efterat vi var bortført, i den tiende måned, på den femte dag i måneden, kom det nogen flyktninger fra Jerusalem til mig og sa: Staden er inntatt.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Ezekiel 1:2
On the fifth day of the month—it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin—
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2 Kings 24:4–7
and also for the innocent blood he had shed. For he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the LORD was unwilling to forgive.
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Jeremiah 39:1–8
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.
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Ezekiel 24:26–27
on that day a fugitive will come and tell you the news.
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Ezekiel 32:1
In the twelfth year, on the first day of the twelfth month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
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Ezekiel 40:1
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 took me there.
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2 Kings 25:4
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,
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Jeremiah 52:4–14
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 around it.
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