Ezekiel 30:19-21

Living Bible

Footnotes

1. Ezekiel 30:20 A year later, 587 B.C., the year Jerusalem fell to Nebuchadnezzar and was destroyed. the eleventh year of King Jehoiachin’s captivity, literally, “the eleventh year of our exile.”
2. Ezekiel 30:21 I have broken the arm of Pharaoh. When Pharaoh Hophra sent an army to relieve Jerusalem in 588 B.C., Nebuchadnezzar withdrew from the siege just long enough to defeat the Egyptian force. This is what Ezekiel means by the first “broken arm.”