Ezekiel 33

Chapter 33

33:7  So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me.

So thou

The nation having failed in corporate responsibility, the appeal is now to individual loyalty. Cf. 2 Timothy 2:1-26 .

33:21  And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, that one that had escaped out of Jerusalem came unto me, saying, The city is smitten.

tenth month

i.e. January.