Eleventh. Hebrew, "twelfth. "Septuagint, "first of the twelfth month of the twelfth year. "There are other variations in the versions. St. Jerome reads the first in Hebrew, as Theodoret does, who says that it and the Syriac have the twelfth year: which is true, if we neglect the points. (Calmet)
The prophets do not observe the order of times. What is here delivered, was sooner fulfilled; or Tyre and Sodom lay nearer than Egypt. (Worthington)
The three next chapters regard that country.
