Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G MessageIn the eleventh year, on the seventh day of the first month, the word of Yahweh came to me:
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.GIn the eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh day of the month, the word of YHWH came to me:
KJV
King James VersionAnd it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, in the seventh day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
BSB
Berean Standard BibleIn the eleventh year, on the seventh day of the first month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Footnotes
This date—the eleventh year of Jehoiachin's exile, first month, seventh day—corresponds to approximately 29 April 587 BCE, barely three months before the fall of Jerusalem in late summer 586. The timing is theologically charged: YHWH is pronouncing Egypt's judgement at the precise moment Pharaoh Apries (Hophra) had briefly forced Babylon to lift its siege of Jerusalem (Jer. 37:5–11). Egypt's apparent rescue of Jerusalem was illusory—a moment of false hope that Ezekiel now shatters. YHWH is already delivering His verdict on the nation Israel so foolishly trusted as a 'staff of reed' (Ezek. 29:6–7).
