Ezekiel 32:1

A Lament Over Pharaoh

1 In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month on the first day, the word of the LORD came to me:

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Ezekiel 32:1 in Other Translations

1 And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

ESV

1 In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me:

NLT

1 On March 3, during the twelfth year of King Jehoiachin’s captivity, this message came to me from the LORD :

MSG

1 In the twelfth year, on the first day of the twelfth month, God's Message came to me:

CSB

1 In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first [day] of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 32:1 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 32:1

And it came to pass in the twelfth year
Of Jeconiah's captivity, above a year and a half after the taking of Jerusalem; the Syriac version reads in the eleventh year: in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month;
the month Adar, which answers to part of our February, and part of March; the Septuagint version reads it the tenth month: according to Bishop Usher ^F20, this was on the twenty second of March, on the fourth day of the week (Wednesday), 3417 A.M.or 587 years before Christ: that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying;
as follows:

FOOTNOTES:

F20 Annales Vet. Test. A. M. 3417.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Ezekiel 32:1 In-Context

1 In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month on the first day, the word of the LORD came to me:

2 “Son of man, take up a lament concerning Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: “ ‘You are like a lion among the nations; you are like a monster in the seas thrashing about in your streams, churning the water with your feet and muddying the streams.

3 “ ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: “ ‘With a great throng of people I will cast my net over you, and they will haul you up in my net.

4 I will throw you on the land and hurl you on the open field. I will let all the birds of the sky settle on you and all the animals of the wild gorge themselves on you.

5 I will spread your flesh on the mountains and fill the valleys with your remains.

Cross References 1

1. S Ezekiel 31:1; Ezekiel 33:21