Ezekiel 26:3-5

3 therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am against you, Tyre, and I will bring many nations against you, like the sea casting up its waves.
4 They will destroy the walls of Tyre and pull down her towers; I will scrape away her rubble and make her a bare rock.
5 Out in the sea she will become a place to spread fishnets, for I have spoken, declares the Sovereign LORD. She will become plunder for the nations,

Ezekiel 26:3-5 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.

Cross References 7

  • 1. ver 19; Isaiah 5:30; Jeremiah 50:42; Jeremiah 51:42
  • 2. S Isaiah 23:1,11
  • 3. Amos 1:10
  • 4. Ezekiel 27:32
  • 5. Ezekiel 47:10
  • 6. S Numbers 14:3; Ezekiel 29:19
  • 7. Zechariah 9:2-4
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