Ezekiel 26:1

Ezekiel 26:1 in other versions

• King James Version (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,
• New International Version (NIV)In the eleventh month of the twelfth year, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:
• English Standard Version (ESV)In the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:
• New King James Version (NKJV)And it came to pass in the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

Context of Ezekiel 26:1

The Lord gave this message to me on the first day of the month, in the 11th year: 2‘Son of man, Tyre's people have said, “Good! An enemy has destroyed Jerusalem! Traders from that city went out to many nations. Now we will do that instead of them. We will become rich because Jerusalem is no longer a strong city.” 3So this is what the Almighty Lord says: Listen! I have become your enemy, Tyre. I will bring many nations to attack you. They will be like the waves of the sea as they hit you.

Ezekiel 26:1 word by word

וַיְהִ֛י בְּעַשְׁתֵּֽי־עֶשְׂרֵ֥ה שָׁנָ֖ה בְּאֶחָ֣ד לַחֹ֑דֶשׁ הָיָ֥ה דְבַר־יְהוָ֖ה אֵלַ֥י לֵאמֹֽר׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• And it came to pass in the eleventhעָשָׂר‛âώâr · tenH6240
• And it came to pass in the eleventhעַשְׁתֵּי‛ashtêy · elevenH6249
• yearשָׁנָהshâneh shânâh · yearH8141
• in the firstאֶחָד'echâd · oneH259
• of the monthחֹ֫דֶשׁchôdesh · monthH2320
• the wordדָּבָרdâbâr · wordH1697
• of the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• came unto me, sayingאָמַר'âmar · to sayH559

Cross-references for Ezekiel 26:1

• Ezekiel 1:2King Jehoiachin of Judah had been a prisoner in Babylon for five years. On the fifth day of the month,
• Ezekiel 8:1On the fifth day of the sixth month of the sixth year, I was sitting in my house. The leaders of Judah were sitting in front of me. While I sat there, the Almighty Lord took hold of me with great power.
• Ezekiel 20:1On the tenth day of the fifth month some of Israel's leaders came to me. That was in the seventh year that we had been prisoners in Babylon. The leaders sat in front of me. They wanted me to ask for a message from the Lord.
• Jeremiah 39:2They stayed there until the ninth day of the fourth month of the 11th year that Zedekiah had been king. On that day, Babylon's soldiers broke through the walls of the city.

Commentaries on Ezekiel 26:1

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 1The 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.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1Prophecies 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…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 1A prophecy against Tyre. Verses 1-14 To be secretly pleased with the death or decay of others, when we are likely to get by it; or with their fall, when we may thrive upon it, is a sin that easily besets us, yet is not thought so bad as really it is. But it comes from a selfish, covetous principle, and from that love of the world as our happiness, which the love of God expressly forbids. He often blasts the projects of those who would raise themselves on…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1February 3, 585 BC was about seven months after the fall of Jerusalem.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-21In the twenty-sixth chapter, Ezekiel sets forth:--(1) Tyre's sin; (2) its doom; (3) the instruments executing it; (4) the effects produced on other nations by her downfall. In the twenty-seventh chapter, a lamentation over the fall of such earthly splendor. In the twenty-eighth chapter, an elegy addressed to the king, on the humiliation of his sacrilegious pride. Ezekiel, in his prophecies as to the heathen, exhibits the dark side only; because he views…Read the comment

Topics related to Ezekiel 26:1

• Prophecy

In the dictionaries

• Beauty
• Departure
• Scrape
• Tyre
• Commerce
• Isaiah
• Trade
• Nebuchadnezzar, or Nebuchadrezzar

Commentaries on Ezekiel 26

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings