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This situates it in March 585, some seven months after the destruction of the Temple (in July-August 586), and some two months after news of that event reached Ezekiel in Babylonia\u2014according to 33:21. The fact that the Septuagint version of our chapter altered the year from twelve to eleven, however, may be an attempt to maintain strict sequencing in these consecutive chapters rather than reflecting an alternate reading of the biblical text.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To complicate the chronology yet further, v. 17 of the current chapter is dated \u201cthe twelfth year on the fifteenth of the month\u201d without the month itself stipulated. Eliezer of Beaugency wrote that it was the same month\u2014the twelfth\u2014noted in the opening verse, and Radak and Malbim both concurred.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The combination of dates and opening formulas (such as \u201cthus said the Lord\u201d) allows us to divide the chapter into two parts. Vs. 1-16 constitute a \u201cdirge (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">kinah<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) over Pharaoh\u201d (2) and further subdivides into v.2, the dirge itself, 3-11, a prophecy of doom directed to Pharaoh, and 11-15, a similar prophecy directed at Egypt in general. V.16, \u201cthis is a dirge and it shall be intoned\u2026 declares the Lord God,\u201d serves as both a literary envelope and an effective closure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Part Two (17-32) depicts Pharaoh\u2019s descent to Sheol (the Netherworld) and can be subdivided in three. Following its own date formula (17, as noted) and address to the prophet (\u201cO mortal,\u201d18), vs. 19-21 consign Pharaoh to Sheol, 22-28 have him joined there by groups of other gentile dead, and 29-32 have Pharaoh consoling himself by the presence, in the Netherworld, of the rulers of Edom and \u201cthe princes of the north\u201d (i.e., Phoenicia).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moshe Greenberg noted: \u201cThe passage [29-32] as a whole is one of the most detailed descriptions in Scripture of the condition of the dead\u201d (Anchor Bible: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ezekiel<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 669), and characterized Ezekiel\u2019s view of non-Jewish kingdoms as \u201cessentially insolent encroachers on God\u2019s dominion\u2026 For His kingship to be established, the earthly kings and their forces must be annihilated,\u201d and he concluded his comments to this chapter with a citation of v.32: \u201cFor I will 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