Ezekiel 26:1-6

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.

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.

Cross References

• 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

Footnotes

• [a]. Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; Masoretic Text does not have "month of the twelfth" .