Ezekiel 26:1

A Prophecy Against Tyre

1 In the eleventh month of the twelfth^[a] year, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me:

Ezekiel 26:1 in Other Translations

1 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

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

1 On February 3, during the twelfth year of King Jehoiachin’s captivity, this message came to me from the LORD :

1 In the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, God's Message came to me:

1 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first [day] of the month, that the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

1 On the first day of the month in the eleventh year, the LORD spoke his word to me. He said,

1 In the eleventh year, on the first [day] of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:

1 It was the first day of a month near the end of the 11th year since King Jehoiachin had been brought to Babylon as a prisoner. A message came to me from the Lord. He said,

Ezekiel 26:1 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 26:1

And it came to pass in the eleventh year
Of Jehoiachin's captivity and Zedekiah's reign, the same year that Jerusalem was taken: in the first day of the month;
but what month is not mentioned; some have thought the first month, and so it was the first day of the year; others the fourth, the same in which the city of Jerusalem was taken; but more probably the fifth, the first of which was twenty days after the taking it; in which time the news of it might be brought to Tyre, at which she rejoiced; and for which her destruction is threatened, and here prophesied of: that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying;
as follows:

Ezekiel 26:1 In-Context

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

2 “Son of man, because Tyre has said of Jerusalem, ‘Aha! The gate to the nations is broken, and its doors have swung open to me; now that she lies in ruins I will prosper,’

3 therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am against you, Tyre, and I will bring many nations against you, like the sea casting up its waves.

4 They will destroy the walls of Tyre and pull down her towers; I will scrape away her rubble and make her a bare rock.

5 Out in the sea she will become a place to spread fishnets, for I have spoken, declares the Sovereign LORD. She will become plunder for the nations,

Cross References

• 1. S Ezekiel 24:1; Ezekiel 29:1; Ezekiel 30:20

Footnotes

• [a] Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; Masoretic Text does not have "month of the twelfth" .