in the twelfth: This was on Wednesday, January 25, am 3416 or 3417. According to the date here given, this escaped Jew did not come to the prophet, with intelligence of Jerusalem being smitten, till about eighteen months after the event; but instead of the "twelfth year," eight manuscripts and the Syriac read the eleventh. Ezekiel 1:2
one: Ezekiel 24:26-27
The city: This was the very message which God had promised to the prophet. Ezekiel 24:26; 2 Kings 24:4-7; 2 Chronicles 36:17-21; Jeremiah 39:2-8, Jeremiah 52:4-14