In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me:
Ministers must weep for those who will not weep for themselves, and tremble for those too proud to tremble. Pharaoh roars like a young lion, turbulent and vexatious as the leviathan, troubling his own kingdom and every nation round him with restless ambition and resentment. Such potentates are beasts of prey in God's reckoning, and those who trouble others must expect to be troubled themselves, for the Lord is righteous.
AI summary
Commenting on Ezekiel 32:1-16
And it came to pass in the twelfth year,.... Of Jeconiah's captivity, above a year and a half after the taking of Jerusalem; the Syriac version reads in the eleventh year: in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month; the month Adar, which answers to part of our February, and part of March; the Septuagint version reads it the tenth month: according...
And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first [day] of the month, [that] the word of the LORD came to me, saying, (a) Which was the first year of the general captivity under Zedekiah.