Yehezkiel 26:1-2

A Prophecy Against Tyre

26:1 In the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, ¹  the word of the Lord came to me: 26:2 “Son of man, because Tyre ²  has said about Jerusalem, ³  ‘Aha, the gateway of the peoples is broken; it has swung open to me. I will become rich, ⁴  now that she ⁵  has been destroyed,’

[26:1]  ¹ 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.

[26:1]  sn April 23, 587 b.c.

[26:2]  ² sn Tyre was located on the Mediterranean coast north of Israel.

[26:2]  ³ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[26:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “I will be filled.”

[26:2]  ⁵ sn That is, Jerusalem.