And 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,
The timing matters greatly: sixteen years pass between the first word against Egypt and this one, while Nebuchadnezzar wears himself out thirteen years at Tyre. God uses that delay to ripen Egypt's weakness through their own wars, then rewards the king's costly labor with a land that falls easily into his hands as spoil.
AI summary
Commenting on Ezekiel 29:17-21
And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year,.... Of Jeconiah's captivity; or of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, as Jarchi, Kimchi, and Abendana, from Seder Olam Rabba (z), observe; though it was in the thirty fifth year of his reign that Tyre was taken by him; and after that Egypt was given him: in the first month, in the first day of the...
The departure from the chronological order occurs here only, among the prophecies as to foreign nations, in order to secure greater unity of subject.