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Dates in Ezekiel

Reference Year/month/day following exile of Jehoiachin Modern equivalent*/yearb.c. Situation
1:2 5th year / 4th month / 5th day July 593*** inaugural vision
8:1 6th year / 6th month / 5th day September 592 first temple vision
20:1 7th year / 5th month / 10th day August 591 elders come to inquire
24:1 9th year / 10th month / 10th day** January 588 or 587 siege of Jerusalem begins
26:1 11th year / month (?) / 1st day c. 587–586 oracle against Tyre, before Babylon besieged it
29:1 10th year / 10th month / 12th day January 587 oracle against Egypt
29:17 27th year / 1st month / 1st day April 571**** Egypt assigned to Babylon; after end of Babylon’s siege of Tyre
30:20 11th year / 1st month / 7th day April 587 oracle against Egypt
31:1 11th year / 3rd month / 1st day June 587 oracle against Egypt
32:1 12th year / 12th month / 1st day March 585 oracle against Egypt
32:17 12th year / 12th month / 15th day April 585 oracle against Egypt
33:21 12th year / 10th month / 5th day January 585 fugitive arrives in Babylon
40:1 25th year / 1st month (?) / 10th day (?) April 573 second temple vision

*For simplicity, here and in the notes that follow, only the second month of the modern equivalent is given (cf. Months in the Hebrew Calendar) **Unique dating formula in Hebrew; see notes ***earliest recorded oracle ****latest recorded oracle

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