# Ezekiel 3:18

> If I say to the wicked man, ‘You will surely die,’ but you do not warn him or speak out to warn him from his wicked way to save his life, that wicked man will die in his iniquity, and I will hold you responsible for his blood.

— Ezekiel 3:18, Berean Standard Bible

## When

- 593 BC (dated by the text itself)
- Date source: Ezekiel 1:1-2 dates itself by the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin, which the Babylonian Chronicle puts in 597 BC.

## Who ruled

- **Nebuchadnezzar II**, king of Babylon, 605-562 BC · Source: Babylonian Chronicles (ABC 5), which date the Battle of Carchemish and the first campaign against Judah; Berossus, cited by Josephus in Against Apion I

## See also

- Ezekiel 33:6 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/ezekiel/33/6
- James 5:19-20 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/james/5/19
- Ezekiel 3:20 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/ezekiel/3/20
- Acts 20:26-27 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/20/26
- Ezekiel 33:8-10 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/ezekiel/33/8
- Luke 13:5 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/luke/13/5
- Acts 2:40 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/2/40
- 1 Timothy 4:16 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/1-timothy/4/16

Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0.

## This document

- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/ezekiel/3/18
- Whole chapter: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/ezekiel/3
- License: Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. Source: Scriptoria (scriptoria.digital).