Ezekiel 26:12

Overview - Ezekiel 26
Tyrus, for insulting against Jerusalem, is threatened with destruction.
The power of Nebuchadnezzar against her.
15 The mourning and astonishment of the sea at her fall.
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Ezekiel 26:12  (King James Version)
And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water.
 


make a spoil
5 ; Matthew 6:19 Matthew 6:20

thy merchandise
27:3-36 Isaiah 23:8 Isaiah 23:11 Isaiah 23:17 Isaiah 23:18 ; Zechariah 9:3 Zechariah 9:4 ; Revelation 18:11-13

thy pleasant houses
Hebrew houses of thy desire.
2 Chronicles 32:27 ; 36:10 Isaiah 32:12 ; Jeremiah 25:34 ; Daniel 11:8 ; Hosea 13:15 ; Amos 5:11
Nahum 2:9 ; Zechariah 7:14 ; *margins

they shalt lay
The ruins of old Tyre contributed much to the taking of the new city; for with the stones, timber, and rubbish, Alexander built a bank, or causeway, from the continent to the island, thereby literally fulfilling the words of the prophet.