In the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, one who had escaped out of Jerusalem came to me, saying, “The city has been defeated!”
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 21. Twelfth. Rom. Septuagint “tenth.” Syr. “eleventh year, … in the twelfth month;” which Theodoret thinks more probable, as the city was taken in the ninth of the fourth month of that year. Yet even so, it is strange that the news should not arrive before. Some think ( Calmet.) that the messenger came also to announce what happened after the death of Godolias. Sanct.—Captivity. Here it is evident that the prophet dates from that event. Calmet. 1. and so forth Bible.—As he prophesied on the very day when the city was besieged, (Calmet. 24:2) so (verse 26) he foretold that one should come three years after to inform him of the capture. Worthington.—Then the people would believe him, (ib. verse 27. Calmet.) and he would open his mouth boldly. verse 22. Bible.