Ezekiel 26:1-14

Prophecy Against Tyre

1 ¹In the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me:

2 ²"Son of man, because ³Tyre said concerning Jerusalem, ⁴'Aha, the gate of the peoples is broken; it has swung open to me. I shall be replenished, now that she is laid waste,'

3 therefore thus says the Lord GOD: ⁵Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and will bring up ⁶many nations against you, ⁷as the sea brings up its waves.

4 They shall destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers, and I will scrape her soil from her and ⁸make her a bare rock.

5 She ⁹shall be in the midst of the sea a place for the spreading of nets, ¹⁰for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD. And she shall become plunder for the nations,

6 and her daughters on the mainland shall be killed by the sword. ¹¹Then they will know that I am the LORD.

7 "For thus says the Lord GOD: ¹²Behold, I will bring against Tyre ¹³from the north Nebuchadnezzar^[a] king of Babylon, ¹⁴king of kings, with horses and chariots, and with horsemen and a host of many soldiers.

8 He will kill with the sword ¹⁵your daughters on the mainland. ¹⁶He will set up a siege wall against you and throw up a mound against you, and raise ¹⁷a roof of shields against you.

9 ¹⁸He will direct the shock of his battering rams against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers.

10 His horses will be so many that their dust will cover you. Your walls will shake at the noise of the horsemen and wagons and chariots, when he enters your gates as men enter a city that has been breached.

11 With the hoofs of his horses he will trample all your streets. He will kill your people with the sword, and your mighty pillars will fall to the ground.

12 They will plunder ¹⁹your riches and loot ²⁰your merchandise. They will break down your walls and destroy your pleasant houses. Your stones and timber and ²¹soil they will cast into the midst of the waters.

13 ²²And I will stop the music of your songs, and ²³the sound of your lyres shall be heard no more.

14 ²⁴I will make you a bare rock. ²⁵You shall be a place for the spreading of nets. You shall never be rebuilt, ²⁶for I am the LORD; I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD.

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Ezekiel 26:1-14 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EZEKIEL 26

This chapter contains a prophecy of the destruction of Tyre. The time of the prophecy, Eze 26:1, the cause of the destruction of it, rejoicing at the ruin of Jerusalem, Eze 26:2, the instruments of it, many nations, particularly the king of Babylon, Eze 26:3-7, the manner in which it shall be done, Eze 26:8-14, the lamentation of other isles, and the princes of them, on account of it, Eze 26:15-18, the utter destruction of it, so as never to be found any more, Eze 26:19-21.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 26

1. See Ezekiel 20:1
2. See Ezekiel 2:1
3. See Isaiah 23:1-18
4. Ezekiel 25:3; Ezekiel 36:2
5. See Ezekiel 13:8
6. [Ezekiel 32:3; Jeremiah 34:1]
7. [Lamentations 2:13]
8. Ezekiel 24:7
9. Ezekiel 47:10
10. See Ezekiel 17:24
11. See Ezekiel 6:7
12. [Ezekiel 29:18]
13. See Jeremiah 1:14
14. Ezra 7:12; Daniel 2:37; [Hosea 8:10]
15. ver. 6
16. See Ezekiel 4:2
17. [2 Kings 19:32]
18. Ezekiel 4:2; Ezekiel 21:22
19. See Ezekiel 27:12-24
20. See Ezekiel 27:12-24
21. ver. 4
22. [Isaiah 24:8; Jeremiah 7:34; Jeremiah 16:9]
23. [Isaiah 5:12; Isaiah 23:16]
24. [See ver. 4 above]
25. [See ver. 5 above]
26. [See ver. 5 above]

Footnotes 1

[a]. Hebrew Nebuchadrezzar; so throughout Ezekiel

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