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

On February 3, during the twelfth year of King Jehoiachin’s captivity, this message came to me from the Lord: 2“Son of man, Tyre has rejoiced over the fall of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Ha! She who was the gateway to the rich trade routes to the east has been broken, and I am the heir! Because she has been made desolate, I will become wealthy!’ 3“Therefore, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am your enemy, O Tyre, and I will bring many nations against you, like the waves of the sea crashing against your shoreline.

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 1:2This happened during the fifth year of King Jehoiachin’s captivity.
• Ezekiel 8:1Then on September 17, during the sixth year of King Jehoiachin’s captivity, while the leaders of Judah were in my home, the Sovereign Lord took hold of me.
• Ezekiel 20:1On August 14, during the seventh year of King Jehoiachin’s captivity, some of the leaders of Israel came to request a message from the Lord. They sat down in front of me to wait for his reply.
• Jeremiah 39:2Two and a half years later, on July 18 in the eleventh year of Zedekiah’s reign, a section of the city wall was broken down.

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