“In the twelfth year
Of our exile,
In the tenth month,
On the fifth day
Of the month,
Someone
Who had escaped
From Jerusalem
Came to me.
He said.
‘The city has fallen.’”
Once again, there is an exact date, the 5th day of the 10th month in the 12th year of his captivity, probably January, 586 BCE. On that day, a man who had escaped from Jerusalem came to him, perhaps a month or two after the fall of Jerusalem. This time it was not Yahweh who came to Ezekiel, but this straggler. However, the news was not good, since he said that the city of Jerusalem had fallen.
