Ezekiel 31:1

Pharaoh Is Warned Through Assyria’s Destruction

1 {And then} {in the eleventh} year, in the third [month], on the first [day] of the month, the word of Yahweh {came} to me, {saying},

Ezekiel 31:1 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 31:1

And it came to pass in the eleventh year
Of Zedekiah's reign, and Jeconiah's captivity: in the third month, in the first day of the month:
the month Sivan, which began on the twentieth of our May, and answers to part of May, and part of June; this was about seven weeks after the former prophecy, and about five weeks before the destruction of Jerusalem; according to Bishop Usher ^F14, this was on the nineteenth of June, on the first day of the week, in 3416 A.M. or before Christ 588: that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying;
as follows:

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FOOTNOTES:

F14 Annales Vet. Test. A. M. 3416.

Ezekiel 31:1 In-Context

1 {And then} {in the eleventh} year, in the third [month], on the first [day] of the month, the word of Yahweh {came} to me, {saying},

2 "Son of man, say to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and to his crowd, 'To whom are you like in your greatness?

3 Look! Assyria [was] a cedar in Lebanon, [with] beautiful branches and a forest giving shade, and {very high}, and its treetop [was] between [the] clouds.

4 Waters made it great, the deep made it grow high; its rivers [were] going all around {its planting area}, and its channels it sent [out] to all of the trees of the field.

5 Therefore it became tall, [with] its height more than all of the trees of the field, and its branches became numerous, and its branches became long {from its sending its shoots from abundant water}.

Footnotes

• [a] Literally "and it happened/it was"
• [b] Literally "on one ten"
• [c] Literally "was"
• [d] Literally "to say"