Ezekiel 26:1
THE ELEVENTH YEAR] 586 b.c. The month is not given, but the date must have been after the destruction of Jerusalem, in the fifth month of that year (2 Kings 25:8): see Ezekiel 26:2.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE ELEVENTH YEAR] 586 b.c. The month is not given, but the date must have been after the destruction of Jerusalem, in the fifth month of that year (2 Kings 25:8): see Ezekiel 26:2.... [ Continue Reading ]
§ 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 famous seaport, renowned for its wealth and splendour. It joined in the league against Nebuchadrezzar, a... [ Continue Reading ]
TYRUS] RV 'Tyre,' and so throughout Ezekiel 26-28. AHA, etc.] Tyre had rejoiced because of the commercial advantage she would reap from the fall of Jerusalern. GATES OF THE PEOPLE] RV 'gate of the peoples.' Jerusalem lay near the highway of traffic which led northward to Tyre, and its fall would rem... [ Continue Reading ]
LIKE THE TOP OF A ROCK] RV 'a bare rock': so in Ezekiel 26:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
HER DAUGHTERS] tributary states or cities.... [ Continue Reading ]
ISLES] the maritime countries of the Mediterranean.... [ Continue Reading ]
PRINCES OF THE SEA] the rulers of these seaboard lands.... [ Continue Reading ]
Tyre is personified, and represented as going down into the under-world of the dead: see Ezekiel 31:14; Ezekiel 32:18. AND SHALL SET GLORY] perhaps we should read, with LXX, 'nor arise.'... [ Continue Reading ]