It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
In the twelfth year - the same year as Ezekiel 32:1. The second lamentation for Pharaoh. This funeral dirge in imagination accompanies him to the unseen world. Egypt, personified in its political head, is ideally represented as undergoing the change by death to which man is liable. Expressing that Egypt's supremacy is no more-a thing of the past, never to be again.
In the fifteenth day of the month - the twelfth month (Ezekiel 32:1); fourteen days after the former vision.