² sn The seventh month would be September-October in modern reckoning.

¹ sn The eighth month would correspond to October-November in modern reckoning.

² sn The month Ethanim. This would be September-October in modern reckoning.

¹ tn Heb “in the menstruation of her impurity”; NIV “during the uncleanness of her monthly period.”

² tn Grk “one hundred denarii.” The denarius was a silver coin worth about a day’s wage for a laborer; this would be about three month’s pay.

¹ sn This year would be ca. 474 b.c. The reference to first month and twelfth month indicate that about a year had elapsed between this determination and the anticipated execution.

¹ sn Rain…three months before the harvest refers to the rains of late March-early April.

² sn The tenth day of the month would have been August 17, 586 b.c. in modern reckoning.

² sn The seventh day of the month would have been August 14, 586 b.c. in modern reckoning.

¹ sn In the month of Ziv. This would be April-May, 966 b.c. by modern reckoning.

¹ sn In the month Bul. This would be October-November 959 b.c. in modern reckoning.

¹ sn During the month Ziv. This would be April-May, 966 b.c. by modern reckoning.

¹ sn The wheat harvest took place during the month of May. See O. Borowski, Agriculture in Iron Age Israel, 37, 88.

² tn Heb “in the month Abib.” The demonstrative “that” has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons.

² sn The eleventh month is Shebat in the Hebrew calendar, January/February in the modern (Gregorian) calendar.

¹ tc Date formulae typically include the month. According to D. I. Block (Ezekiel [NICOT], 2:34, n. 27) some emend to “in the twelfth year in the eleventh month,” relying partially on the copy of the LXX from Alexandrinus, where Albright suggested that “eleventh month” may have dropped out due to haplography.

¹ tn Heb “and the sons of Israel according to their number, heads of the fathers and the commanders of the thousands and the hundreds and their officers who served the king with respect to every matter of the divisions, [that which] comes and goes out month by month according to all the months of the year, one division [was] twenty-four thousand.”

⁹ sn This means that the Israelites had spent nine months at Sinai because they had arrived there in the third month following the exodus. This account does not follow a strict chronology (see Num 9:1). The difference of one month in the narrative is not a critical difference, but a literary general reference. Here begins a new section of major importance to the future of the nation—the numbering for war and for settlement.

¹ sn The twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month…in Darius’ second year was February 15, 519 b.c.

² sn Again, the twenty-fourth day of the month was Kislev 24 or December 18, 520 b.c. See v. 10.