Ezekiel 26:1-9

A Prophecy Against Tyre

1 In the eleventh month of the twelfth^[a] year, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me:

2 “Son of man, because Tyre has said of Jerusalem, ‘Aha! The gate to the nations is broken, and its doors have swung open to me; now that she lies in ruins I will prosper,’

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,

6 and her settlements on the mainland will be ravaged by the sword. Then they will know that I am the LORD.

7 “For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: From the north I am going to bring against Tyre Nebuchadnezzar^[b] king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses and chariots, with horsemen and a great army.

8 He will ravage your settlements on the mainland with the sword; he will set up siege works against you, build a ramp up to your walls and raise his shields against you.

9 He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and demolish your towers with his weapons.

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Ezekiel 26:1-9 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 16

1. S Ezekiel 24:1; Ezekiel 29:1; Ezekiel 30:20
2. S Joshua 19:29; 2 Samuel 5:11; Isaiah 23
3. S Ezekiel 25:3
4. ver 19; Isaiah 5:30; Jeremiah 50:42; Jeremiah 51:42
5. S Isaiah 23:1,11
6. Amos 1:10
7. Ezekiel 27:32
8. Ezekiel 47:10
9. S Numbers 14:3; Ezekiel 29:19
10. Zechariah 9:2-4
11. Jeremiah 27:6; Jeremiah 39:1
12. S Ezra 7:12; Daniel 2:37
13. S Ezekiel 23:24; Nahum 2:3-4
14. S Jeremiah 6:6
15. S Jeremiah 33:4; Ezekiel 21:22
16. S Ezekiel 21:22

Footnotes 2

[a]. Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; Masoretic Text does not have "month of the twelfth" .
[b]. Hebrew "Nebuchadrezzar," of which "Nebuchadnezzar" is a variant; here and often in Ezekiel and Jeremiah