Ezekiel 26:1-6

Judgment on Tyre

1 Now in the eleventh * year, on the first of the month, the word of the LORD came to me saying,

2 "Son of man, because * ¹Tyre has said concerning Jerusalem, 'Aha, the ²gateway of the peoples is broken; it has ³opened to me. I shall be filled, now that she is laid waste,'

3 therefore thus says the Lord GOD, 'Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and I will bring up ⁴many nations against you, as the ⁵sea brings up its waves.

4 'They will ⁶destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers; and I will scrape her debris from her and make her a bare rock.

5 'She will be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea, for I have spoken,' declares the Lord GOD, 'and she will become ⁷spoil for the nations.

6 'Also her ⁸daughters who are on the mainland will be slain by the sword, and they will know that I am the LORD.' "

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Ezekiel 26:1-6 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 8

1. 2 Samuel 5:11; Isaiah 23:1; Jeremiah 25:22
2. Isaiah 62:10
3. Ezekiel 25:8; Ezekiel 35:10
4. Micah 4:11
5. Isaiah 5:30; Jeremiah 50:42; Jeremiah 51:42
6. Isaiah 23:11; Ezekiel 26:9; Amos 1:10
7. Ezekiel 25:7; Ezekiel 29:19
8. Ezekiel 16:46, 53; Ezekiel 26:8

Footnotes 3

[a]. Lit "turned"
[b]. Heb "YHWH," usually rendered LORD, and so throughout the ch
[c]. Lit "in the field"