# Then it happened

This marks the beginning of a new message.

# in the twelfth year

Possible meanings are: this happened in the twelfth year after the Babylonians took the Israelites to Babylon or this happened in the twelfth year after the Babylonians took Jehoiachin to Babylon.

# the word of Yahweh came

"Yahweh spoke this message". This introduces something that God told his prophets or his people. See Ezekiel 3:16.