Ezekiel 30:20-22

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²⁰A year later,^[a] around the middle of March of the eleventh year of King Jehoiachin’s captivity, this message came to me:

²¹“Son of dust, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh,^[b] king of Egypt, and it has not been set nor put into a cast to make it strong enough to hold a sword again. ²²For the Lord God says, I am against Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and I will break both his arms—the strong one and the one that was broken before, and I will make his sword clatter to the ground.

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Footnotes

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.”
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.”