Ezekiel 26:12

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 Nebuchadnezzar conquered Tyre, much of value had already been removed. Apparently little wealth remained after 13 years of siege (see Ezekiel 29:18). Later, Alexander the Great conquered Tyre by building a 2,600-foot (800-m) land bridge from the mainland out to the island fortress, thus fulfilling the prophecy of this verse, your stones and timber and soil they will cast into the midst of the waters. These materials came from the destruction of the city’s settlements on the mainland (Ezekiel 26:6, Ezekiel 26:8.)