Ezekiel 30:20 - Exposition

In the eleventh year, etc. Assuming that the whole section, Eze 29:17-30:19, were a later insertion, that which follows was written in April, B.C. 586. Its contents show that it was written at or about the time of the abortive attempt of Pharaoh-Hophra to come to the relief of Jerusalem ( Jeremiah 34:21 ; Jeremiah 37:5-7 ). This was the breaking of the arm of Egypt, of which the next verse speaks.