Ezekiel 26:1

Literal Standard Version

And it comes to pass, in the eleventh year, on the first of the month, there has been a word of YHWH to me, saying, "Son of man,

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
In the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:

Hebrew Names Version
It happened in the eleventh year, in the first [day] of the month, that the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

King James Version
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,

English Standard Version
In the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:

New American Standard Bible
Now in the eleventh year, on the first of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

New Century Version
It was the eleventh year of our captivity, on the first day of the month. The Lord spoke his word to me, saying:

Amplified Bible
Now in the eleventh year, on the first [day] of the month [after the capture of King Jehoiachin], the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

World English Bible
It happened in the eleventh year, in the first [day] of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

Geneva Bible (1587)
And in the eleuenth yeere, in the first day of the moneth, the worde of the Lord came vnto me, saying,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Now in the eleventh year, on the first of the month, the word of the LORD came to me saying,

Legacy Standard Bible
Now it happened in the eleventh year, on the first of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me saying,

Berean Standard Bible
In the eleventh month of the twelfth year, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Contemporary English Version
Eleven years after King Jehoiachin and the rest of us had been led away as prisoners to Babylonia, the Lord spoke to me on the first day of the month. He said:

Complete Jewish Bible
On the first day of the month in the eleventh year, the word of Adonai came to me:

Darby Translation
And it came to pass in the eleventh year, on the first of the month, [that] the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

Easy-to-Read Version
In the eleventh year of exile, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me. He said,

George Lamsa Translation
AND it came to pass in the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Good News Translation
On the first day of the … month of the eleventh year of our exile, the Lord spoke to me.

Lexham English Bible
And it was in the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

Literal Translation
And it was in the eleventh year, in the first of the month, the Word of Jehovah was to me, saying,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
It happened, that in the xi. yeare, the first daye off the Moneth, the worde of the LORDE came vnto me, sayenge:

American Standard Version
And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first day of the month, that the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

Bible in Basic English
Now in the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
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:

King James Version (1611)
And it came to passe in the eleuenth yeere, in the first day of the moneth, that the word of the Lord came vnto me, saying,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And it came to passe in the eleuenth yere, the first day of the moneth, the word of the Lorde came vnto me, saying:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And it came to pass in the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

English Revised Version
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,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And it was doon in the enleuenthe yeer, in the firste dai of the monethe, the word of the Lord was maad to me, and he seide,

Update Bible Version
And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first [day] of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

Webster's Bible Translation
And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first [day] of the month, [that] the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

New English Translation
In the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:

New King James Version
And it came to pass in the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

New Living Translation
On February 3, during the twelfth year of King Jehoiachin's captivity, this message came to me from the Lord :

New Life Bible
In the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, the Word of the Lord came to me saying,

New Revised Standard
In the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And it came to pass in the eleventh year, on the first of the month, that the word of Yahweh came unto me, saying:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And it came to pass in the eleventh year, the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

Revised Standard Version
In the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me:

Young's Literal Translation
And it cometh to pass, in the eleventh year, in the first of the month, there hath been a word of Jehovah unto me, saying: `Son of man,

THE MESSAGE
In the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, God 's Message came to me: "Son of man, Tyre cheered when they got the news of Jerusalem, exclaiming, "‘Good! The gateway city is smashed! Now all her business comes my way. She's in ruins and I'm in clover.'

Contextual Overview

¹And it comes to pass, in the eleventh year, on the first of the month, there has been a word of YHWH to me, saying, "Son of man,²Because that Tyre has said of Jerusalem: Aha, she has been broken, || The doors of the peoples, || She has turned around to me, || I am filled—she has been laid waste, ³Therefore, thus said Lord YHWH: Behold, I [am] against you, O Tyre, || And have caused many nations to come up against you, || As the sea causes its billows to come up. ⁴And they have destroyed the walls of Tyre, || And they have broken down her towers, || And I have scraped her dust from her, || And made her for a clear place of a rock. ⁵She is a spreading place of nets in the midst of the sea, || For I have spoken," || A declaration of Lord YHWH, || "And she has been for a spoil to nations. ⁶And her daughters who [are] in the field, are slain by sword, || And they have known that I [am] YHWH," ⁷For thus said Lord YHWH: "Behold, I am bringing Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Tyre, || From the north—a king of kings, || With horse, and with chariot, and with horsemen, || Even an assembly, and a numerous people. ⁸He slays your daughters in the field by sword, || And he has made a fort against you, || And has poured out a mound against you, || And has raised a buckler against you. ⁹And he places a battering-ram before him against your walls, || And he breaks your towers with his weapons. ¹⁰From the abundance of his horses their dust cover you, || From the noise of horseman, and wheel, and rider, || Your walls shake, in his coming into your gates, || As the coming into a city that has been broken-up.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Ezekiel 1:2, Ezekiel 8:1, Ezekiel 20:1, Jeremiah 39:2

Reciprocal: Joshua 19:29 - Tyre Isaiah 23:1 - burden Jeremiah 25:22 - Tyrus Jeremiah 47:4 - Tyrus Ezekiel 24:1 - the ninth year Ezekiel 29:1 - General Ezekiel 30:20 - General Hosea 9:13 - as Amos 1:9 - Tyrus Zechariah 9:2 - Tyrus Matthew 11:22 - Tyre Mark 3:8 - Tyre Luke 10:13 - Tyre

Cross-References

Genesis 25:11
And it comes to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blesses his son Isaac; and Isaac dwells by the Well of the Living One, my Beholder.

Genesis 26:1
And there is a famine in the land, besides the first famine which was in the days of Abraham, and Isaac goes to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.

Genesis 26:2
And YHWH appears to him and says, "Do not go down toward Egypt, dwell in the land concerning which I speak to you,

Genesis 26:22
And he removes from there, and digs another well, and they have not striven for it, and he calls its name "Enlargements," and says, "For—now has YHWH given enlargement to us, and we have been fruitful in the land."

Genesis 26:32
And it comes to pass during that day that Isaac's servants come and declare to him concerning the circumstances of the well which they have dug, and say to him, "We have found water";

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it came to pass in the eleventh year,.... Of Jehoiachin's captivity and Zedekiah's reign, the same year that Jerusalem was taken:

in the first day of the month; but what month is not mentioned; some have thought the first month, and so it was the first day of the year; others the fourth, the same in which the city of Jerusalem was taken; but more probably the fifth, the first of which was twenty days after the taking it; in which time the news of it might be brought to Tyre, at which she rejoiced; and for which her destruction is threatened, and here prophesied of:

that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying; as follows:

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Prophecies against Tyre. The siege of Tyre lasted thirteen years beginning 585 b.c., about three years after the capture of Jerusalem. While besieging Jerusalem, Nebuchadnezzar had driven Pharaoh Hophra back to the borders of Egypt. Tyre being thus relieved from a dangerous enemy, was exulting in her own deliverance, and in her neighbor’s ruin, when Ezekiel predicted the calamity about to befall her. The name Tyre means rock, and was given to the city in consequence of its position. This island-rock was the heart of Tyre, and the town upon the continent - called “Old Tyre,” possibly as having been the temporary position of the first settlers - was the outgrowth of the island city. The scanty records of ancient history give no, distinct evidence of the capture of insular Tyre by Nebuchadnezzar; but the fact is very probable. Compare especially Ezekiel 26:7-12; Ezekiel 29:18. The present state of Tyre is one of utter desolation, though the end was long delayed (compare Isaiah 23:0). Tyre was great and wealthy under Persian, Greek, Roman, and even Muslim masters. The final ruin of Tyre was due to the sultan of Egypt (1291 a.d.).

In the first day of the month - The number of the month being omitted, many suppose “the month” to mean the month when Jerusalem was taken (the rebirth month), called “the month,” as being so well known. The capture of the city is known to have taken place on “the ninth day of the fourth month” and its destruction on “the seventh day of the fifth month.” This prophecy therefore preceded by a few days the capture of the city. The condition of Jerusalem in the latter months of its siege was such that the Tyrians may well have exulted as though it had already fallen.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XXVI

This prophecy, beginning here and ending in the twentieth verse

of the twenty-eighth chapter, is a declaration of the judgments

of God against Tyre, a very famous commercial city of

antiquity, which was taken by Nebuchadnezzar after an arduous

siege of thirteen years. The prophet begins with introducing

Tyre insulting Jerusalem, and congratulating herself on the

prospect of accession to her commerce now that this city was no

more, 1, 2.

Upon which God denounces utter destruction to Tyre, and the

cities depending on her, 3-6.

We have then a particular account of the person raised up in

the course of the Divine providence to accomplish this work.

We see, as it were, his mighty hosts, (which are likened to the

waves of the sea for their multitude,) raising the mounds,

setting the engines, and shaking the walls; we hear the noise

of the horsemen, and the sound of their cars; we see the clouds

of smoke and dust; we see the sword bathed in blood, and hear

the groans of the dying. Tyre, (whose buildings were very

splendid and magnificent, and whose walls were one hundred and

fifty feet in height, with a proportionable breadth,)

immediately disappears; her strong (and as she thought

impregnable) towers are thrown down; and her very dust is

buried in the sea. Nothing remains but the bare rock, 7-14.

The scene is then varied. The isles and adjacent regions, by a

very strong and beautiful figure, are represented to be shaken,

as with a mighty earthquake by violent concussion occasioned by

the fall of Tyre. The groans of the dying reach the ears of the

people inhabiting these regions. Their princes, alarmed for

themselves and grieved for Tyre, descend from their thrones,

lay aside their robes, and clothe themselves with-sackcloth?-no,

but with trembling! Arrayed in this astonishing attire, the

prophet introduces them as a chorus of mourners, lamenting Tyre

in a funeral song or dirge, as customary on the death of

renowned personages. And pursuing the same image still farther,

in the person of God, he performs the last sad office for her.

She is brought forth from her place in solemn pomp; the pit is

dug for her; and she is buried, to rise no more, 15-21.

Such is the prophecy concerning Tyre, comprehending both the

city on the continent and that on the island, and most

punctually fulfilled in regard to both. That on the continent

was razed to the ground by Nebuchadnezzar, B.C. 572, and that

on the island by Alexander the Great, B.C. 332. And at present,

and for ages past, this ancient and renowned city, once the

emporium of the world, and by her great naval superiority the

centre of a powerful monarchy, is literally what the prophet

has repeatedly foretold it should be, and what in his time was,

humanly speaking, so highly improbable-a BARE rock, a place to

spread nets on!

NOTES ON CHAP. XXVI

Verse Ezekiel 26:1. The eleventh year — This was the year in which Jerusalem was taken; the eleventh of the captivity of Jeconiah, and the eleventh of the reign of Zedekiah. What month we are not told, though the day is mentioned. There have been many conjectures about this, which are not of sufficient consequence to be detailed.