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

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

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,

KJV

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,

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This verse in Ezekiel 26

Commentary

6 notes on this verse
Prophecies against Tyre. The siege of Tyre lasted thirteen years beginning 585 b.c., about three years after the capture of Jerusalem. While besieging Jerusalem, Nebuchadnezzar had driven Pharaoh Hophra back to the borders of Egypt. Tyre being thus relieved from a dangerous enemy, was exulting in her own deliverance, and in her neighbor’s ruin, when Ezekiel predicted the calamity about to befall her. The name Tyre means rock, and was given to the city in consequence of its position.

This site's exposition

In the eleventh month of the twelfth year

on Ezekiel 26:1-2

The date formula places this oracle close to the fall of Jerusalem itself. Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: I shall be replenished treats Judah's ruin as a business opening. Fairbairn reads the taunt as the sharpest kind of judgment against a merchant city.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel · Written before 420.

proposed

(Chapter 26) And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying: Son of man, because Tyre (or Sidon) has said of Jerusalem: Aha, the gate of the peoples is broken, it is turned to me, I shall be filled, it has become desolate; therefore thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, Tyre (or Sidon), and I will bring many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And it came to pass in the eleventh year,....

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

The specification of the date, which had been omitted in the case of the four preceding objects of judgment, marks the greater weight attached to the fall of Tyre. eleventh year--namely, after the carrying away of Jehoiachin, the year of the fall of Jerusalem. The number of the month is, however, omitted, and the day only given.

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

The eleventh year - This was the year in which Jerusalem was taken; the eleventh of the captivity of Jeconiah, and the eleventh of the reign of Zedekiah. What month we are not told, though the day is mentioned. There have been many conjectures about this, which are not of sufficient consequence to be detailed.

The words behind it

11 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיְהִ֛יand it was

    vayhiH1961 →3559 times

  • בְּעַשְׁתֵּֽי־in one [plus]

    beashtei-H6249 →

  • עֶשְׂרֵ֥הten

    ʾesrehH6240 →338 times

  • שָׁנָ֖הyear

    shanahH8141 →877 times

  • בְּאֶחָ֣דon [day] one

    beechadH259 →971 times

  • לַחֹ֑דֶשׁof the month

    lachodeshH2320 →284 times

  • הָיָ֥הit came

    hayahH1961 →3559 times

  • דְבַר־[the] word of

    devar-H1697 →1440 times

  • יְהוָ֖הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֵלַ֥יto me

    ʾelaiH413 →5510 times

  • לֵאמֹֽר׃<to> saying

    lemorH559 →5305 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

9 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Ezekiel 30:20In the eleventh year, on the seventh day of the first month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,4 worksEzekiel 29:1In the tenth year, on the twelfth day of the tenth month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,4 worksLuke 10:13Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.4 worksEzekiel 20:1In the seventh year, on the tenth day of the fifth month, some of the elders of Israel came to inquire of the LORD, and they sat down before me.3 worksEzekiel 8:1In the sixth year, on the fifth day of the sixth month, I was sitting in my house, and the elders of Judah were sitting before me; and there the hand of the Lord GOD fell upon me.2 worksEzekiel 1:2On the fifth day of the month—it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin—2 works
The other 3 cross-references, with their words ▾
Jeremiah 39:2And on the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year, the city was breached.2 worksEzekiel 24:1In the ninth year, on the tenth day of the tenth month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,2 worksIsaiah 23:1This is the burden against Tyre: Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for Tyre is laid waste, without house or harbor. Word has reached them from the land of Cyprus.2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Ezekiel 20:1

    In the seventh year, on the tenth day of the fifth month, some of the elders of Israel came to inquire of the LORD, and they sat down before me.

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 8:1

      In the sixth year, on the fifth day of the sixth month, I was sitting in my house, and the elders of Judah were sitting before me; and there the hand of the Lord…

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Ezekiel 29:17

      In the twenty-seventh year, on the first day of the first month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Ezekiel 31:1

      In the eleventh year, on the first day of the third month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

  • Through

    Ezekiel 8:1

    In the sixth year, on the fifth day of the sixth month, I was sitting in my house, and the elders of Judah were sitting before me; and there the hand of the Lord…

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 20:1

      In the seventh year, on the tenth day of the fifth month, some of the elders of Israel came to inquire of the LORD, and they sat down before me.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Ezekiel 14:1

      Then some of the elders of Israel came and sat down before me.

    • Ezekiel 33:31

      So My people come to you as usual, sit before you, and hear your words; but they do not put them into practice. Although they express love with their mouths, their hearts pursue dishonest…

    • Ezekiel 1:2–3

      On the fifth day of the month—it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin—

  • Through

    Ezekiel 1:2

    On the fifth day of the month—it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin—

    it leads to

    • 2 Kings 24:12–15

      Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his servants, his commanders, and his officials all surrendered to the king of Babylon. So in the eighth year of his reign, the king of Babylon took him…

About Ezekiel

Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Patrick Fairbairn, An Exposition of Ezekiel.

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