Ezekiel 29:1

Almost ten years after we had been taken to Babylonia, on the twelfth day of the tenth month of that year, Yahweh gave me another message. He said to me,

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the twelfth day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

In Context

2“You human, turn toward Egypt and proclaim the terrible things that will happen to the king of Egypt and all his people.

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Cross References

Jeremiah 43:8While we were at Tahpenes, Yahweh gave me another message. He said,

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 29:17Almost twenty-seven years after we had been taken to Babylonia, on the first day of the new year, Yahweh gave me this message:

Ezekiel 40:1Almost 25 years after we had been taken to Babylonia, on the tenth day of the first month of that year, almost 14years after Jerusalem had been destroyed, in a vision I felt the power [MTY] of Yahweh on me, and he took me to Israel.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 29:1

Three chapters we had concerning Tyre and its king; next follow four chapters concerning Egypt and its king. This is the first of them. Egypt had formerly been a house of bondage to God's people; of late they had had but too friendly a correspondence with it, and had depended too much upon it; and therefore, whether the prediction reached Egypt or no, it would be of use to Israel, to take them off from their confidence in their alliance with it. The prophecies against Egypt, which are all laid together in these… Read the whole commentary →

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