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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Ezekiel 26:12

Shall lay — It had been a quicker way, to have burnt all; but the greedy soldier might dream of treasures hid in walls, or under the timber, and therefore take the pains to pull all down, and throw it into the sea.

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See also Ezekiel 26:12 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Ezekiel 26:12. _AND THEY SHALL LAY THY STONES AND THY TIMBER AND THY_ _DUST IN THE MIDST OF THE WATER._] This answers to the taking of Tyre by Alexander; he actually took the timbers, stones, r...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    The description of the siege is that of a town invested by land. Ezekiel 26:7 NEBUCHADREZZAR - Jeremiah 21:2 note. Ezekiel 26:8...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    Ezekiel 26:1. A lengthy prophecy concerning Tyrus is found in this and in the Chapter s which follow. These great predictions have found a startling fulfilment. History confirms all that Ezekiel spoke...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    EZEKIEL 26. SIEGE AND DESTRUCTION OF TYRE. Tyre is the incarnation of unrestrained commercialism; and, in the mind of Ezekiel her doom is justified by the malicious joy with which she hailed the fall...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Jehovah's instrument in Tyre's destruction, Nebuchadnezzar The description is graphic: the advance of the assailant with his great army (Ezekiel 26:7); the siege with the powerful train of engines (8...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND THEY SHALL LAY, &C.— The ruins of old Tyre contributed much to the taking of the new city; for with the stones, timber, and rubbish of it, Alexander built a bank or causey from the continent to th...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    B. The Agents of Destruction 26:7-14 TRANSLATION (7) For thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am about to bring against Tyre Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, from the north, king of kings, with horses a...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and t...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    § 2. TYRE (AND SIDON) (EZEKIEL 26-28) Tyre was the capital of Phoenicia, the seaboard country on the NW. of Palestine. The Phoenicians were the great mariners of the ancient world, and Tyre was a famo...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    EZEKIEL: “THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD” GOD’S PLANS FOR *ISRAEL AND THE NATIONS EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 25 TO 39 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 26 THE PUNISHMENT OF TYRE – EZEKIEL 26:1-14 V1 The *

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THEY SHALL MAKE. — In Ezekiel 26:12 the nominative changes. It is no longer Nebuchadnezzar who does these things, but “they.” This may intimate that the prophet’s vision now again passes beyond the im...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ שָׁלְל֣וּ חֵילֵ֗ךְ וּ בָֽזְזוּ֙ רְכֻלָּתֵ֔ךְ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    TYRE Ezekiel 26:1, Ezekiel 29:17 IN the time of Ezekiel Tyre was still at the height of her commercial prosperity. Although not the oldest of the Phoenician cities, she held a supremacy among them wh...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The doom of the two dealt with Tyre and Sidon, but principally with Tyre. Concerning her, the prophet first made a general statement describing her sin, and the judgment determined against her, declar...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I beg the Reader not to be alarmed, at the title here given to the Chaldean monarch. By a King of Kings, means no more than that by his victories, he had many Kings in tribute to him. The Lord was ple...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 26, 27, AND 28. Although in a certain sense upon Israel's territory, Tyre has another character, and is the subject of a separate prophecy (chaps. 26-28), bec...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND THEY SHALL MAKE A SPOIL OF THY RICHES,.... The Chaldean army, when they entered the city, and got possession of it, would plunder it, and divide the riches of it among them: AND MAKE A PREY OF TH...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and t...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _And they shall make a spoil of thy riches_ The Chaldean army shall hinder thy trade during the war, and plunder thee in the end of it. _And make a prey of thy merchandise_ Of the fruit, or gains, of...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, the great treasures stored up in this great commercial city, AND MAKE A PREY OF THY MERCHANDISE, taking it away as a welcome booty; AND THEY SHALL BREAK DOWN...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Prophecy Concerning Nebuchadnezzar's Coming...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    thy pleasant houses: _ Heb._ houses of thy desire...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-14 To be secretly pleased with the death or decay of others, when we are likely to get by it; or with their fall, when we may thrive upon it, is a sin that easily besets us, yet is not thought so b...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THEY; Chaldean soldiers. MAKE A SPOIL; hinder thy trade during the war, and plunder thee in the end of the war. MAKE A PREY OF THY MERCHANDISE; intercepting much, as it is coming to thee whilst besieg...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ezekiel 26:12 plunder H7997 (H8804) riches H2428 pillage H962 (H8804) merchandise H7404 down H2040 (H8804) walls...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    “And they will make a spoil of your riches, and make a prey of your merchandise, and they will break down your walls, and destroy your pleasant houses, and they will lay your stones, and your timber,...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE FIRST ORACLE AGAINST TYRE (EZEKIEL 26:1)....

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Coming judgment upon Tyre. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel, Nebuchadnezzar. CONCLUSION: It is just with God to blast the designs and projects of those who contrive to raise themselves upon the ru...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Ezekiel 26:2. _Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, Aha._ The Lord's people were not beloved among the gentile nations, because they were not what they seemed to be in regard to their holy temple. Havin...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And they shall make a spoil of thy riches._ SPOLIATION OF TREASURE IS A MORAL GAIN Scholars and artists have mourned for ages over the almost universal destruction of the works of ancient genius. I...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar King of Babylon._ THE PROPHECY AGAINST TYRE I. What were the grounds of her judgment. She was judged for her sins. 1. She abused the privilege of civi...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 26:1 In terms of length, Ezekiel’s oracles against Tyre are second only to his oracles against Egypt (Ezekiel 29:1). This is probably because, of the nations addressed by Ezeki

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 26:12 That Tyre’s wealth should be subject to PLUNDER is poetic justice, given the city’s greed (v. Ezekiel 26:2). However, by the time Nebuchadnez

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    THE FALL OF TYRE. (Chap. 26) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—“In four sections, commencing with the formula, ‘Thus saith the Lord,’ Tyre, the mistress of the sea is threatened with destruction. In the first strophe...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION The prophetic messages against Ammon, Moab, Edom, and the Philistines were comparatively short. That against Tyre spreads over three chapters (Ezekiel 26:1). The special prominence thus giv...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Tonight turn in our Bibles to Ezekiel chapter 26. According to verse Ezekiel 26:1, this prophecy came to Ezekiel in the eleventh year of the king Zedekiah's reign, which would make it the year 586 B....

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Chronicles 32:27; 2 Chronicles 36:10; Amos 5:11; Daniel 11:8;...

  • When Critics Ask: A Popular Handbook on Bible Difficulties, Norman L. Geisler and Thomas Howe, 1960

    How can Ezekiel’s prophecies be included in Scripture if they are wrong about Nebuchadnezzar? PROBLEM: According to the prophecies in Ezekiel 26, God would bring Nebuchadnezzar against the proud city...

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