Ezekiel 33 · Verse 21

Ezekiel 33:21

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.
Ezekiel 33:21, King James Version

Ezekiel 33:21 in other translations

BSBIn 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!”
WEBIn 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!”
ASVAnd 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.
YLTAnd 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.'
DARBYAnd 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!
BBENow 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.
WebsterAnd 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 to me, saying, The city is smitten.

What does Ezekiel 33:21 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
21. twelfth year ... tenth month--a year and a half after the capture of the city (Jr 39:2; 52:5, 6), in the eleventh year and fourth month. The one who escaped (as foretold, Eze 24:26) may have been so long on the road through fear of entering the enemy's country [Henderson]; or, the singular is used for the plural in a collective sense, "the escaped remnant." Compare similar phrases, "the escaped of Moab," Is 15:9; "He that escapeth of them," Am 9:1. Naturally the reopening of the prophet's mouth for consolation would be deferred till the number of the escaped remnant was complete: the removal of such a large number would easily have occupied seventeen or eighteen months.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 21 In the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month - Instead of the twelfth year, the eleventh is the reading of seven of Kennicott's MSS., one of De Rossi's, and the Syriac. My own, mentioned in the preceding chapter, reads with the present text. This was on Wednesday, Jan. 25, A.M. 3416 or 3417. One that had escaped out of Jerusalem - After it had been taken by the Chaldeans. Came unto me, saying, The City Is Smitten - This very message God had promised to the prophet, Eze 24:26.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Ezekiel 33:21-29
Those are unteachable indeed, who do not learn their dependence upon God, when all creature-comforts fail. Many claim an interest in the peculiar blessings to true believers, while their conduct proves them enemies of God. They call this groundless presumption strong faith, when God's testimony declares them entitled to his threatenings, and nothing else.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Ezekiel 33:21 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַיְהִ֞יvay.Hiand it wasH1961
בִּשְׁתֵּ֧יbish.Teiin two [plus]H8147
עֶשְׂרֵ֣ה'es.RehtenH6240
שָׁנָ֗הsha.NahyearH8141
בָּעֲשִׂרִ֛יba.'a.si.Riin the tenth [month]H6224
בַּחֲמִשָּׁ֥הba.cha.mi.Shahon [day] fiveH2568
לַחֹ֖דֶשׁla.Cho.deshof the monthH2320
לְגָלוּתֵ֑נוּle.ga.lu.Te.nuof exile ourH1546
בָּא\־ba'-he cameH935
אֵלַ֨י'e.Laito meH413
הַפָּלִ֧יטha.pa.Litthe escapeeH6412
מִירוּשָׁלִַ֛םmi.ru.sha.Limfrom JerusalemH3389
לֵאמֹ֖רle.Mor<to> sayingH559
הֻכְּתָ֥הhu.ke.Tahit has been struckH5221
הָעִֽיר\׃ha.'Irthe cityH5892

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Cross references for Ezekiel 33:21

  • Ezekiel 1:2

    In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin’s captivity,

  • 2 Kings 24:4-7

    And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the Lord would not pardon. Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead. And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his land: for the king of Babylon had taken from the river of Egypt unto the river Euphrates all that pertained to the king of Egypt.

  • Jeremiah 39:1-8

    In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and they besieged it. And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up. And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, even Nergal–sharezer, Samgar–nebo, Sarsechim, Rab–saris, Nergal–sharezer, Rab–mag, with all the residue of the princes of the king of Babylon. And it came to pass, that when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, and all the men of war, then they fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king’s garden, by the gate betwixt the two walls: and he went out the way of the plain. …

  • Ezekiel 24:26-27

    That he that escapeth in that day shall come unto thee, to cause thee to hear it with thine ears? In that day shall thy mouth be opened to him which is escaped, and thou shalt speak, and be no more dumb: and thou shalt be a sign unto them; and they shall know that I am the Lord.

  • Ezekiel 32:1

    And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

  • Ezekiel 40:1

    In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day the hand of the Lord was upon me, and brought me thither.

  • 2 Kings 25:4

    And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king’s garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain.

  • Jeremiah 52:4-14

    And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forts against it round about. So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land. Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king’s garden; (now the Chaldeans were by the city round about:) and they went by the way of the plain. …

  • 2 Chronicles 36:17-21

    Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand. And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes; all these he brought to Babylon. And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof. And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia: …

  • 2 Kings 25:10

    And all the army of the Chaldees, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
in the twelfth.This was on Wednesday, January 25, A.M. 3416 or 3417. According to the date here given, this escaped Jew did not come to the prophet, with intelligence of Jerusalem being smitten, till about eighteen months after the event; but instead of the "twelfth year," eight MSS. and the Syriac read the eleventh.
1:2
one.
24:26,27
The city.This was the very message which God had promised to the prophet.
24:26; 2Ki 24:4-7; 2Ch 36:17-21; Jer 39:2-8; 52:4-14

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Context

  • Ezekiel 33:20

    Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O ye house of Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways.

  • Ezekiel 33:21

    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.

  • Ezekiel 33:22

    Now the hand of the Lord was upon me in the evening, afore he that was escaped came; and had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more dumb.

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Ezekiel 33:21 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y aconteció en el año duodécimo de nuestro cautiverio, en el mes décimo, á los cinco del mes, que vino á mí un escapado de Jerusalem, diciendo: La ciudad ha sido herida.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		*Et il arriva, la douzième année de notre transportation, au dixième mois, le cinquième jour du mois, qu’un réchappé de Jérusalem vint vers moi, disant: La ville est frappée.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und es geschah im zwölften Jahre unserer Wegführung, im zehnten Monat, am Fünften des Monats, da kam ein Entronnener aus Jerusalem zu mir und sprach: Die Stadt ist geschlagen!
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Et factum est in duodecimo anno, in decimo mense, in quinta mensis transmigrationis nostræ, venit ad me qui fugerat de Jerusalem, dicens: Vastata est civitas.