Prophecy against Tyre The three Chapter s 26 28 are occupied with Tyre, containing threats of her destruction in various forms. First, ch. 26. Literal prophecy of Tyre's destruction at the hands of Nebuchadnezzar. Secondly, ch. 27. Dirge over the downfall of Tyre under the figure of a gallant shi... [ Continue Reading ]
_first_day of _the month_ The 11th year of Jehoiachin's captivity was that in which Jerusalem was taken. On the 9th day of the 4th month of this year the city was stormed, and on the 10th day of the 5th month it was destroyed (Jeremiah 52:6; Jeremiah 52:12). The present prophecy assumes the destruct... [ Continue Reading ]
The sin of Tyre: her rejoicing over the calamity of Judah, in the hopes that it will further her interests. _Aha, she is broken_ Rather: AHA! THE GATE (door) OF THE PEOPLES IS BROKEN, IT IS TURNED UNTO ME. ("Door" is plur. having leaves, or by attraction of peoples.) The idea appears to be that Jeru... [ Continue Reading ]
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 w... [ Continue Reading ]
_like the top of a rock_ like A NAKED ROCK, ch. Ezekiel 24:7. Tyre stood upon a small island of rock separated from the mainland by a narrow strait. She shall be swept from her place, and her dust scraped into the sea, leaving her island site a bare rock, cf. Ezekiel 26:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
The threat is repeated Ezekiel 26:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
_daughters … in the field_ i.e. her dependent towns on the mainland, ch. Ezekiel 16:46; Ezekiel 30:18. Tyre at this time was at the head of the Phœnician confederation of cities, cf. Ezekiel 27:8-11.... [ Continue Reading ]
The correct spelling, Nebuchadrezzar (Ezekiel 29:18; Ezekiel 30:10), the name being Nabû-Kudurri-usur, "Nebo protect the crown!" Schrader _KAT_, p. 361 (on 2 Kings 24:1). _a king of kings_ THE king. Ezra 7:12; Daniel 2:37. Already the king of Assyria had said, "Are not my princes altogether kings?... [ Continue Reading ]
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, 9); the assault, and capture and sack of the city (10 12), which is left a joyless ruin, a naked r... [ Continue Reading ]
The cities and villages, dependencies of Tyre in the mainland, naturally are the first to suffer. Then the siege of the insular city itself is taken in hand. The order is precise: first the "fort" or moveable tower from which the archers shot so as to counteract the defensive efforts of the besieged... [ Continue Reading ]
_engines of war_ or, engines of assault, i.e. battering engines. "Axes" is lit. swords, i.e. irons. 10 _seq_. The assault and capture and sack of the city. The description is graphic in the extreme. When the conqueror enters the dust following the march of his cavalry shall cover the city; the wall... [ Continue Reading ]
_thy strong garrisons_ thy STRONG (or, proud) PILLARS. The word is almost always used of a pillar having religious meaning, particularly the obelisk dedicated to Baal (2 Kings 10:26). The rendering "pillars of thy strength," those in which Tyre confided and thought her strength to lie (Ges.), is rat... [ Continue Reading ]
_the top of a rock_ A NAKED ROCK, Ezekiel 26:4.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 sound of thy fall_ might mean "at the report of thy fall," but here by a strong hyperbole the prophet... [ Continue Reading ]
In token of mourning the princes of the sea, the rulers of the principalities and cities on all sea, coasts, shall descend from their thrones, lay aside their royal robes and sit on the ground (Lamentations 2:10). _clothe themselves_ Or, _be clothed_, i.e. be enveloped in, be wholly tremblings; cf.... [ Continue Reading ]
_of seafaring men_ lit. inhabited _from the seas_. _cause their terror_ Rather: CAUSED. A.V. "all that haunt it" has taken the ref. to be to the sea, which is almost necessary, though the present text is literally _all her inhabitants_, referring to the city. The phrase "caused their terror to be... [ Continue Reading ]
Lament of the princes over Tyre.... [ Continue Reading ]
_the isles_ See on Ezekiel 26:15. The form of plur. nowhere else occurs, and appears to be adopted in order to gain a parallelism to "isles" (ordinary form) in the next clause. The phrase "at thy departure," lit. _outgoing_is strange; but might have a parallel Psalms 144:14. The elegy seems confine... [ Continue Reading ]
Tyre shall be overwhelmed in the great waters, and brought down to the pit, with them dead from of old; she shall never, be inhabited nor found any more.... [ Continue Reading ]
_when I shall bring_ Rather in connexion with Ezekiel 26:19: when I shall make thee a desolate city … THEN I SHALL BRING THEE DOWN. The prophet regards Tyre's sinking beneath the waters as her entrance upon the descent into the pit, the place of the dead, just as frequently elsewhere (ch. 32) he sna... [ Continue Reading ]
_make thee a terror_ lit., terrors or _destructions_I will utterly destroy thee, Ezekiel 27:36; Ezekiel 28:19; cf. Psalms 73:19. On "make" cf. Ezekiel 16:38. The passage Ezekiel 29:17-21 states that Nebuchadnezzar received no adequate reward for the service against Tyre which he served for Jehovah.... [ Continue Reading ]