Ezekiel 32:1

A Lament over Pharaoh and Egypt

1 ¹In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:

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:

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FOOTNOTES:

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

Ezekiel 32:1 In-Context

1 In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:

2 “Son of man, raise a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: “You consider yourself a lion of the nations, but you are like a dragon in the seas; you burst forth in your rivers, trouble the waters with your feet, and foul their rivers.

3 Thus says the Lord God: I will throw my net over you with a host of many peoples, and they will haul you up in my dragnet.

4 And I will cast you on the ground; on the open field I will fling you, and will cause all the birds of the heavens to settle on you, and I will gorge the beasts of the whole earth with you.

5 I will strew your flesh upon the mountains and fill the valleys with your carcass.

Cross References

• 1. 32:1 See ch. 20:1