the twelfth year... tenth month... fifth day. This is the date of the taking of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar. See Ezekiel 40:1. The event in the twenty-fifth year is said to be the fourteenth year from the twelfth (i.e. from the tenth month of tho twelfth year to the first month of the twenty-fifth). The prophecies of the preceding Chapter s were given to Ezekiel in the Land before this twelfth year. See the table on p. 1105, and App-50.). This was the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month and ninth day (Jeremiah 39:1; Jeremiah 39:2; 2 Kings 25:1-4).
came unto me. While still in the Land, probably in hiding,