Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ezekiel 26:15
The isles — Isles which are places freest from danger of invasions, will shake with fear, when they learn that Tyre is fallen.
The isles — Isles which are places freest from danger of invasions, will shake with fear, when they learn that Tyre is fallen.
Verse Ezekiel 26:15. _THE ISLES SHAKE AT THE SOUND OF THY FALL_] All those which had traded with this city, which was the grand mart, and on which they all depended. Her ruin involved them all, and ca...
The effect of the fall of Tyre. Ezekiel 26:16 CLOTHE THEMSELVES WITH TREMBLING - Mourners change their bright robes for sad garments. Ezekiel 26:17 OF SEAFARING MEN - literally, “from the s
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...
ISLES. coastlands, or maritime countries....
Commotion among the princes of the sea caused by her fall; they mourn and take up a lament over Tyre (17, 18) 15. _the isles shake_ the coast-lands, the island-like countries on the seaboard. _the so...
C. The Result of Tyre's Destruction 26:15-18 TRANSLATION (15) Thus says the Lord GOD to Tyre: Shall not the islands shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, when the slaughter occurs...
Thus saith the Lord GOD to Tyrus; Shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall, when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in the midst of thee? SHALL NOT THE ISLES SHAKE AT THE SOUND...
§ 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...
ISLES] the maritime countries of the Mediterranean....
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 *
THE ISLES. — This word is constantly used in Scripture, not merely for islands, strictly so called, but for any sea-coasts. The main reference here, no doubt, is to the islands and coasts of the Medit...
כֹּ֥ה אָמַ֛ר אֲדֹנָ֥י יְהוִ֖ה לְ צֹ֑ור הֲ
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...
Those that favor the idea of mystic Tyre being here spoken of, and not ancient Tyre, (which could never be so considerable in point of commerce and of riches), conclude, that what is here spoken refer...
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...
THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD TO TYRUS,.... By his prophet, who very probably delivered this prophecy to the ambassadors of Tyre at Babylon; or to some of their merchants that traded there; or sent it in a...
_Thus saith the Lord GOD to Tyrus; Shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall, when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in the midst of thee?_ Ver. 15. _Shall not the isles._] See the...
_Shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall?_ All those that dwell upon the sea-coast near thee shall be thrown into a consternation at the news of thy being taken and destroyed. _All the prin...
THE EFFECT OF THE FALL OF TYRE...
Thus saith the Lord God of Tyrus, Shall not the isles, including the colonies located along the shores of the Mediterranean, SHAKE AT THE SOUND OF THY FALL, being filled with agitation and terror when...
15-21 See how high, how great Tyre had been. See how low Tyre is made. The fall of others should awaken us out of security. Every discovery of the fulfilment of a Scripture prophecy, is like a miracle...
ISLES, which are places freest from the danger of invasions, and in those days thought themselves safe, will think themselves in danger, and shake with fear, when they hear that Tyre is fallen; it wil...
Ezekiel 26:15 says H559 (H8804) Lord H136 GOD H3069 Tyre H6865 coastlands H339 shake H7493 (H8799) sound...
THE FIRST ORACLE AGAINST TYRE (EZEKIEL 26:1)....
‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh to Tyre, “Will not the isles/coastlands shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, when the slaughter is made in the midst of you? Then all the princes of the...
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...
_Shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall?_ TYRE’S FALL AWAKENS ALARM IN OTHERS As when a great merchant breaks, all that he deals with are shocked by it, and begin to look about them. Or w...
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 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....
Ezekiel 26:18; Ezekiel 27:28; Ezekiel 27:35; Ezekiel 31:16; E