The date here given is about a year and a half after the city's fall. Considering the constant intercourse between the mother country and the exiles this period is very long. Some MSS. as well as the Syr. read eleventhyear, leaving about six months for the news to travel by messenger. (Eleven and twelve are easily confused in Heb.).

our captivity That of Jehoiachin, ch. Ezekiel 1:2. "One that had escaped," lit. the fugitive, may refer to one or more, cf. Ezekiel 24:26.

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