And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
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Gill's Exposition
And it came to pass in the eleventh year,.... Of Zedekiah's reign, and Jeconiah's captivity:
in the third month, in the first day of the month: the month Sivan, which began on the twentieth of our…
Barnes' Notes
In the third month - More than a month before Jerusalem was taken (compare Jer 39:2).
Adam Clarke
In the eleventh year - On Sunday, June 19, A.M. 3416, according to Abp. Usher; a month before Jerusalem was taken by the Chaldeans.
This prophecy bears date the month before Jerusalem was taken, as that in the close of the foregoing chapter about four months before. When God's people were in the depth of their distress, it would…
Cambridge Bible
The date is about two months before Jerusalem fell.
Pharaoh under the figure of a great cedar cut down and flung upon the ground
The passage has three parts:
(1) Eze 31:1-9. Pharaoh, the…