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Ezekiel 26:3

The punishment of Tyre. Many nations shall be brought up against her (Ezekiel 26:3); her dust shall be scraped from her into the sea, leaving her a naked rock, a place for drying nets (Ezekiel 26:4), and her dependent cities on the mainland shall be laid waste (Ezekiel 26:6).

the sea causeth his waves The comparison is powerful. It is not the succession, but the multitude and overwhelming power of the waves that is referred to.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Ezekiel 26:3. _WILL CAUSE MANY NATIONS TO COME UP AGAINST THEE_] We have already seen that the empire of the Chaldeans was composed of many different provinces, and that Nebuchadnezzar's army w...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • 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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THE LORD GOD. Hebrew. _Adonai Jehovah_. See note on Ezekiel 2:4 BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos_. App-6....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AS THE SEA, &C.— They shall be as loud, as numerous, as irresistible, as the waves of the sea. This is one of the beautiful and expressive ironies which occur in the magnificent prophesy here recorded...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    CHAPTER THIRTEEN JUDGMENT ON TYRE AND SIDON 26:1-28:26 The Phoenician seaport cities of Tyre and Sidon next come under the purview of the prophet. Tyre, the more important of the two cities, receives...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up. I ... WILL CAUSE MANY NATIONS TO...

  • 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

    MANY NATIONS. — The prophet here, at the outset, glances down through the ages of Tyre’s future history. He has in mind not merely the conquest by Nebuchadnezzar, of which he will speak more particula...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    לָכֵ֗ן כֹּ֤ה אָמַר֙ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֔ה הִנְנִ֥י...

  • 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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Up. Nabuchodonosor besieged the city for thirteen years. The profane historians read by St. Jerome took no notice of this; but Josephus quotes several. (Antiquities x. 11., and contra Apion i.) (Calm...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    That the Prophecy of Ezekiel hath a reference to events greater than the deliverance of Israel from Babylon is granted by almost all writers, both Jews and Gentiles, And hence, various have been the a...

  • 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

    THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD,.... Who knew the thoughts of the inhabitants of Tyre, and what joy possessed their hearts, and which their lips expressed; and who informs the prophet of it, though...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I [am] against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up. Ver. 3. _Therefore thus saith th...

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

    _Because that Tyrus hath said, Aha, she is broken_, &c. The meaning seems to be, the city is broken, at whose gates the people entered in; that is, the place is demolished where there used to be a con...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    therefore, thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I am against thee, O Tyrus, the Lord setting himself in stern opposition to her ambitions, AND WILL CAUSE MANY NATIONS TO COME UP AGAINST THEE, namely, in t...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    A GENERAL OUTLINE OF THE JUDGMENT...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    I AM AGAINST THEE; and if God be against them, they will soon have enemies enough too against them: God purposeth, threateneth, and assureth them he is and will be against them. MANY NATIONS, for numb...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ezekiel 26:3 says H559 (H8804) Lord H136 GOD H3069 Tyre H6865 many H7227 nations H1471 up H5927 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, “Behold I am against you, O Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against you, as the sea causes his waves to come up. And they will destroy the walls of T...

  • 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 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 26:3 The agents of destruction here are MANY NATIONS. They are described as the crashing of the SEA and ITS WAVES. The description that follows continues this figura

  • 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

    Ezekiel 21:3; Ezekiel 27:26; Ezekiel 27:32; Ezekiel 28:22; Ezeki

  • 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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