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Ezekiel 26:4-5

EZEKIEL—NOTE ON Ezekiel 26:4 Tyre’s location in the midst of the sea, often seen in extrabiblical sources as a sign of its security, is now described in mocking language (see also v. Ezekiel 26:17). Tyre was indeed destroyed and made like a bare rock by Alexander’s conquest.

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See also Ezekiel 26:4-5 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Ezekiel 26:4. _I WILL ALSO SCRAPE HER DUST FROM HER_] I will totally destroy her fortifications, and leave her nothing but a barren rock, as she was before. This cannot refer to the capture of T...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • 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 TOP OF. ROCK. a bare rock....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _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 scr...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    I WILL ALSO SCRAPE HER DUST FROM HER— _I will brush away the dust out of her, and reduce her to a dry rock:_ Houbigant: an allusion to the custom in Palestine of fertilizing particular spots by carryi...

  • 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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    LIKE THE TOP OF A ROCK] RV 'a bare rock': so in Ezekiel 26:14....

  • 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

    HER DUST. — Comp. Ezekiel 26:12. The dust is that of her ruined walls and palaces and temples. “Scraping” expresses their utter destruction. As an historic fact, the ruins of the ancient city have all...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ שִׁחֲת֞וּ חֹמֹ֣ות צֹ֗ר וְ הָֽרְסוּ֙ מִגְדּ

  • 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

    _Dust. She shall be demolished, and the rubbish thrown into the sea, to make a road by which New Tyre in the island might be attacked, ver. 12. (Haydock)_...

  • 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...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _THE DOOM OF TYRE_ ‘I will … make her like the top of a rock.’ Ezekiel 26:4 Eleven years after the carrying away of Jehoiachin—i.e. the year after the fall of Jerusalem, and whilst Tyre was rejoici...

  • 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

    AND THEY SHALL DESTROY THE WALLS OF TYRUS.... Undermining them, or breaking them down with their battering rams: AND BREAK DOWN HER TOWERS; with axes, Ezekiel 26:9 built upon the walls; erected for t...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock._ Ver. 4. _And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus._...

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

    _They shall destroy the walls of Tyrus_, &c. The expressions of these verses signify that Tyre should be entirely demolished, and that the place where the city stood should be made as bare as the top...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    A GENERAL OUTLINE OF THE JUDGMENT...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, whose business section was built on an island and was strongly fortified, AND BREAK DOWN HER TOWERS; I WILL ALSO SCRAPE HER DUST FROM HER, as it were, the la...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    DESTROY; batter and demolish with their mighty engines, which shall shake, disjoint, and beat down the strongest parts of their walls. BREAK DOWN; undermine, that they may tumble at once, or employ ha...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ezekiel 26:4 destroy H7843 (H8765) walls H2346 Tyre H6865 down H2040 (H8804) towers H4026 scrape H5500 ...

  • 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 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

    Amos 1:10; Ezekiel 24:7; Ezekiel 24:8; Ezekiel 26:12; Ezekiel 26:9;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Scrape — I will leave thee nothing; thou shalt be scraped, and swept, that not so much as dust shall remain in thee. Like — As bare as was the rock on which thy city is built....

  • 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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