Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ezekiel 26:14
No more — Tho' there was a city of that name built, yet it was built on the continent; and in propriety of speech, was another city.
No more — Tho' there was a city of that name built, yet it was built on the continent; and in propriety of speech, was another city.
Verse Ezekiel 26:14. _THOU SHALT BE BUILT NO MORE_] If this refer to Nebuchadnezzar's capture of the city, _old Tyre_ must be intended: that was destroyed by him, and never rebuilt. But I doubt wheth...
The description of the siege is that of a town invested by land. Ezekiel 26:7 NEBUCHADREZZAR - Jeremiah 21:2 note. Ezekiel 26:8...
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...
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...
THOU. The 1611 edition of tho Authorized Version reads "they". be built no more. Zidon's fate has boon different. Its extinction was not prophesied. See Ezekiel 28:20. THE LORD. The Syriac and Vulgat...
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...
_the top of a rock_ A NAKED ROCK, Ezekiel 26:4....
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...
And I will make thee like the top of a rock: thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the LORD have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD. I WILL MAKE THEE LIKE THE TO...
§ 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...
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 *
וּ נְתַתִּ֞יךְ לִ צְחִ֣יחַ סֶ֗לַע מִשְׁטַ֤ח ח
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...
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...
And I will make thee like the top of a rock: (f) thou shalt be [a place] to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the LORD have spoken [it], saith the Lord GOD. (f) I will make you so...
More, for seventy years, Isaias xxiii. 15. The people returned at the same time as the Jews. (The year of the world 3468.) Soon after, Zacharias (chap. ix.) speaks of Tyre as then subsisting. It was v...
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...
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...
AND I WILL MAKE THEE LIKE THE TOP OF A ROCK,.... Smooth and bare; Ezekiel 26:4: AND THOU SHALL BE A PLACE TO SPREAD NETS UPON; Ezekiel 26:5: THOU SHALT BE BUILT NO MORE: this must be understood wit...
And I will make thee like the top of a rock: thou shalt be [a place] to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the LORD have spoken [it], saith the Lord GOD. Ver. 14. _Thou shalt be bui...
_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...
And I will make thee like the top of a rock, utterly bare, with not even a heap of ruins to mark the spot; THOU SHALT BE A PLACE TO SPREAD NETS UPON, the draw-nets of fishermen being stretched out the...
The Prophecy Concerning Nebuchadnezzar's Coming...
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...
Ezekiel 14:4,5. THOU SHALT BE BUILT NO MORE; either not this long time, or else not built in greatness and glory, or not raised to be a kingdom, or not by the inhabitants of old Tyre, or not with the...
Ezekiel 26:14 make H5414 (H8804) top H6706 rock H5553 spreading H4894 nets H2764 rebuilt H1129 (H8735) LORD...
“And I will make the noise of your songs cease, and the sound of your harps will be heard no more. You will be a place for spreading nets, and you will be built no more. For I Yahweh have spoken it,”...
THE FIRST ORACLE AGAINST TYRE (EZEKIEL 26:1)....
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...
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...
_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...
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
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 26:14 YOU SHALL NEVER BE REBUILT. Tyre was rebuilt and reconquered several times after Alexander the Great, so the complete fulfillment of this prophecy did not come immediatel...
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...
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...
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....
Deuteronomy 13:16; Ezekiel 17:21; Ezekiel 21:32; Ezekiel 22:14;...
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...