Ezekiel 26:1 - Exposition

In the eleventh year , etc. The last date given ( Ezekiel 24:1 ) was the tenth day of the tenth month of the ninth year. We have now come to the eleventh year, on which, on the ninth day of the fourth month, Jerusalem was taken, while its destruction followed in the seventh day of the fifth month ( Jeremiah 52:6 , Jeremiah 52:12 ). Here the number of the month is not given in the Hebrew or the Vulgate, while the LXX . inserts the "first month." In Ezekiel 32:17 we have a like omission, and in both cases it is natural to assume an error of transcription. The tidings of the capture may have reached both Tyre and Tel-Abib, and Ezekiel may have heard of the temper in which the former had received them, just as he had heard how the nations named in the previous chapter had exulted in the fall, imminent and, as they thought, inevitable, of the holy city.