Ezekiel 26:1

Almost twelve years after we had been taken to Babylonia, on the first day of the month, Yahweh gave me another message. He said to me,

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

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,

In Context

2“You human, the people of Tyre city shouted joyfully and said about Jerusalem, ‘ Jerusalem, the city from which many traders/merchants went to many nations, is now destroyed. And now people from all over the world will come to us to buy and sell things. Because Jerusalem has now been ruined, we will prosper!’

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Cross References

Ezekiel 20:1Almost seven years after King Jehoiachin and the rest of us had been captured and taken to Babylonia, on the tenth day of the fifth month of that year, some Israeli elders came to me to ask if I had a message for them from Yahweh.

Ezekiel 28:1Then Yahweh gave me another message. He said:

Zechariah 9:2I will also punish the people in nearby Hamath city. I will also punish the people in Tyre and Sidon cities, even though they are considered to be [IRO] very wise.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 26:1

The prophet had soon done with those four nations that he set his face against in the foregoing chapters; for they were not at that time very considerable in the world, nor would their fall make any great noise among the nations nor any figure in history. But the city of Tyre is next set to the bar; this, being a place of vast trade, was known all the world over; and therefore here are three whole chapters, this and the two that follow, spent in the prediction of the destruction of Tyre. We have "the burden of… Read the whole commentary →

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