Ezekiel 26:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

EZEKIEL CHAPTER 26 Tyrus, for insulting over the distress of Jerusalem, is threatened with destruction, Ezekiel 26:1-6: of which Nebuchadrezzar shall be made the instrument, Ezekiel 26:7-14. The consternation and mourning of the isles and princes of the sea for her fall, Ezekiel 26:15-21. The eleventh year of Jeconiah's captivity, the year wherein Jerusalem was taken. The first day of the month; that month which followed the taking of Jerusalem, i.e. the fifth month; for Jerusalem was taken on the fourth month, ninth day, and in twenty days after the news was brought to Tyrus, which behaved herself as the prophet will declare.

Ezekiel 26:1

1 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,