Ezekiel 32:1

Lament over Pharaoh and Egypt

1 In the ¹twelfth * year, in the twelfth * month, on the first of the month, the word of the LORD came to me saying,

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Ezekiel 32:1 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 32:1

And it came to pass in the twelfth year
Of Jeconiah's captivity, above a year and a half after the taking of Jerusalem; the Syriac version reads in the eleventh year: in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month;
the month Adar, which answers to part of our February, and part of March; the Septuagint version reads it the tenth month: according to Bishop Usher ^F20, this was on the twenty second of March, on the fourth day of the week (Wednesday), 3417 A.M.or 587 years before Christ: that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying;
as follows:

FOOTNOTES:

F20 Annales Vet. Test. A. M. 3417.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Ezekiel 32:1 In-Context

1 In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first of the month, the word of the LORD came to me saying,

2 "Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him, 'You compared yourself to a young lion of the nations, Yet you are like the monster in the seas; And you burst forth in your rivers And muddied the waters with your feet And fouled their rivers.' "

3 Thus says the Lord GOD, "Now I will spread My net over you With a company of many peoples, And they shall lift you up in My net.

4 "I will leave you on the land; I will cast you on the open field. And I will cause all the birds of the heavens to dwell on you, And I will satisfy the beasts of the whole earth with you.

5 "I will lay your flesh on the mountains And fill the valleys with your refuse.

Cross References 1

1. Ezekiel 30:20; Ezekiel 31:1; Ezekiel 32:17; Ezekiel 33:21