Ezekiel 3:16

3:16 At the end of seven days the word of the Lord came to me: ¹ 

Ezekiel 26:1

A Prophecy Against Tyre

26:1 In the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, ²  the word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 27:8

27:8 The leaders ³  of Sidon ⁴  and Arvad ⁵  were your rowers;

your skilled ⁶  men, O Tyre, were your captains.

Ezekiel 29:17

29:17 In the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, ⁷  the word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 30:20

30:20 In the eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh day of the month, ⁸  the word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 31:1

A Cedar in Lebanon

31:1 In the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, ⁹  the word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 32:17

32:17 In the twelfth year, on the fifteenth day of the month, ¹⁰  the word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 36:28

36:28 Then you will live in the land I gave to your fathers; you will be my people, and I will be your God. ¹¹ 

[3:16]  ¹ sn This phrase occurs about fifty times in the book of Ezekiel.

[26:1]  ² tc Date formulae typically include the month. According to D. I. Block (Ezekiel [NICOT], 2:34, n. 27) some emend to “in the twelfth year in the eleventh month” based partially on the copy of the LXX from Alexandrinus, where Albright suggested that “eleventh month” may have dropped out due to haplography.

[27:8]  ³ tc The MT reads “the residents of”; the LXX reads “your rulers who dwell in.” With no apparent reason for the LXX to add “the rulers” many suppose something has dropped out of the Hebrew text. While more than one may be possible, Allen’s proposal, positing a word meaning “elders,” is the most likely to explain the omission in the MT from a graphic standpoint and also provides a parallel to the beginning of v. 9. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:81.a parallel to v. 9.

[27:8]  ⁴ map For location see Map1 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.

[27:8]  ⁵ sn Sidon and Arvad, like Tyre, were Phoenician coastal cities.

[27:8]  ⁶ tn Or “wise.”

[29:17]  ⁴ sn April 26, 571 b.c.

[30:20]  ⁵ tn April 29, 587 b.c.

[31:1]  ⁶ sn June 21, 587 b.c.

[32:17]  ⁷ tn March 17, 585 b.c. The LXX adds “first month.”

[36:28]  ⁸ sn This promise reflects the ancient covenantal ideal (see Exod 6:7).