17And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the first month, in the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
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In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the twelfth day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity,
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-21)The date of this prophecy is observable; it was in the twenty-seventh year of Ezekiel’s captivity, sixteen years after the prophecy in the former part of the chapter, and almost as long after those which follow in the next chapters; but it comes in here for the explication of all that was said against Egypt. After the destruction of Jerusalem Nebuchadnezzar spent two or three campaigns in the conq…
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