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,
Ver. 1. In the eleventh year.] Of Jehoiakim's captivity and Zedekiah's reign.
In the first day of the month,] i.e., Of the fifth month, when the news came to Tyre of the destruction of Jerusalem twenty days before, which occured on the ninth day of the fourth month. 2Ki 25:1