Ezekiel 32:17

17 And it came to pass in the twelfth year, on the fifteenth of the month, the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

Ezekiel 32:17 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 32:17

It came to pass also the twelfth year
Another prophecy of the like kind was delivered out the same year as before: in the fifteenth day of the month;
of the twelfth month, the month Adar, which is not here expressed, because mentioned before, ( Ezekiel 32:1 ) , it was about a fortnight after the other prophecy. The Septuagint and Arabic versions read it,

``it came to pass in the twelfth year, the first month, the fifteenth day of the month;''

according to which this prophecy was before the other, which is not to be supposed.

Ezekiel 32:17 In-Context

15 When I shall make the land of Egypt a desolation, and the country shall be left desolate of all that was in it, when I have smitten all them that dwell therein, then shall they know that I [am] Jehovah.

16 It is a lamentation, and [thus] they shall lament her: the daughters of the nations shall say it in lamenting; they shall say it in lamenting over Egypt and over all her multitude, saith the Lord Jehovah.

17 And it came to pass in the twelfth year, on the fifteenth of the month, the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

18 Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, her and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the lower parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.

19 Whom dost thou surpass in beauty? Go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised.