Ezekiel 32:17
“It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of the month, that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,”
When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and the country shall be destitute of that whereof it was full, when I shall smite all them that dwell therein, then shall they know that I am the Lord.
This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament her: the daughters of the nations shall lament her: they shall lament for her, even for Egypt, and for all her multitude, saith the Lord God.
It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of the month, that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.
Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised.
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“And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord God fell there upon me.”
“Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,”
“And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,”
“And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,”
“In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin’s captivity,”