Ezekiel 33:21

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“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!””

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BSBPD

“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 · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“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.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“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.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“And it cometh to pass, in the twelfth year--in the tenth <FI>month<Fi> , 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.'”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Ezekiel 33:21 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 2 Kings 24:4and also for the innocent blood he had shed. For he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the LORD was unwilling to forgive.
  2. 2 Kings 25:4Then 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,
  3. 2 Kings 25:10And the whole army of the Chaldeans under the captain of the guard broke down the walls around Jerusalem.
  4. 2 Chronicles 36:17So 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 Nebuchadnezzar,
  5. Jeremiah 39:1In 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.
  6. Jeremiah 39:2And on the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year, the city was breached.
  7. Jeremiah 52:4So 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.
  8. Ezekiel 1:2On the fifth day of the month—it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin—
  9. Ezekiel 24:26on that day a fugitive will come and tell you the news.
  10. Ezekiel 32:1In the twelfth year, on the first day of the twelfth month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
  11. Ezekiel 40:1In 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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