Ezekiel 1:2

1:2 (On the fifth day of the month – it was the fifth year of King Jehoiachin’s exile –

Ezekiel 30:20

30:20 In the eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh day of the month, ¹  the word of the Lord came to me:

Jeremiah 52:5-6

52:5 The city remained under siege until Zedekiah’s eleventh year. 52:6 By the ninth day of the fourth month ²  the famine in the city was so severe the residents ³  had no food.

[30:20]  ¹ tn April 29, 587 b.c.

[52:6]  ² sn According to modern reckoning that would have been July 18, 586 b.c. The siege thus lasted almost a full eighteen months.

[52:6]  ³ tn Heb “the people of the land.”