George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Ezekiel 26:9
Engines. Literally, "vine." (Haydock) --- A covert was thus made for the soldiers, (Veget. iv. 15.) when they approached the walls. (Menochius)
Engines. Literally, "vine." (Haydock) --- A covert was thus made for the soldiers, (Veget. iv. 15.) when they approached the walls. (Menochius)
The description of the siege is that of a town invested by land. Ezekiel 26:7 NEBUCHADREZZAR - Jeremiah 21:2 note. Ezekiel 26:8...
Ezekiel 26:1. A lengthy prophecy concerning Tyrus is found in this and in the Chapter s which follow. These great predictions have found a startling fulfilment. History confirms all that Ezekiel spoke...
EZEKIEL 26. SIEGE AND DESTRUCTION OF TYRE. Tyre is the incarnation of unrestrained commercialism; and, in the mind of Ezekiel her doom is justified by the malicious joy with which she hailed the fall...
ENGINES OF WAR. battering rams. Occurs only here. AXES. weapon...
Jehovah's instrument in Tyre's destruction, Nebuchadnezzar The description is graphic: the advance of the assailant with his great army (Ezekiel 26:7); the siege with the powerful train of engines (8...
_engines of war_ or, engines of assault, i.e. battering engines. "Axes" is lit. swords, i.e. irons. 10 _seq_. The assault and capture and sack of the city. The description is graphic in the extreme....
B. The Agents of Destruction 26:7-14 TRANSLATION (7) For thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am about to bring against Tyre Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, from the north, king of kings, with horses a...
And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers. HE SHALL SET ENGINES OF WAR AGAINST THY WALLS - literally, 'an apparatus for striking.' 'He sha...
§ 2. TYRE (AND SIDON) (EZEKIEL 26-28) Tyre was the capital of Phoenicia, the seaboard country on the NW. of Palestine. The Phoenicians were the great mariners of the ancient world, and Tyre was a famo...
EZEKIEL: “THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD” GOD’S PLANS FOR *ISRAEL AND THE NATIONS EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 25 TO 39 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 26 THE PUNISHMENT OF TYRE – EZEKIEL 26:1-14 V1 The *
ENGINES OF WAR. — This is now generally understood to mean _battering-rams,_ although the word is a different one from that used in Ezekiel 4:2; Ezekiel 21:22. There are two words here which may form...
וּ מְחִ֣י קָֽבָלֹּ֔ו יִתֵּ֖ן בְּ חֹֽמֹותָ֑יִךְ...
TYRE Ezekiel 26:1, Ezekiel 29:17 IN the time of Ezekiel Tyre was still at the height of her commercial prosperity. Although not the oldest of the Phoenician cities, she held a supremacy among them wh...
The doom of the two dealt with Tyre and Sidon, but principally with Tyre. Concerning her, the prophet first made a general statement describing her sin, and the judgment determined against her, declar...
I beg the Reader not to be alarmed, at the title here given to the Chaldean monarch. By a King of Kings, means no more than that by his victories, he had many Kings in tribute to him. The Lord was ple...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 26, 27, AND 28. Although in a certain sense upon Israel's territory, Tyre has another character, and is the subject of a separate prophecy (chaps. 26-28), bec...
AND HE SHALL SET ENGINES OF WAR AGAINST THY WALLS,.... Which some Jewish writers understand of crossbows, out of which stones or arrows were cast; but rather, according to Kimchi and Jarchi, they were...
_And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers._ Ver. 9. _He shall set engines of war._] _Helepoles inieciet._ A graphic description of a siege....
_Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar_ Josephus asserts, upon the authority of the Phenician Annals, translated by Menander, the Ephesian, into Greek, “that Nebuchadnezzar besieged Tyre thir...
And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, literally, "wall-breakers," that is, battering-rams. AND WITH HIS AXES HE SHALL BREAK DOWN THY TOWERS, the swords of the invaders killing the soldier...
The Prophecy Concerning Nebuchadnezzar's Coming...
1-14 To be secretly pleased with the death or decay of others, when we are likely to get by it; or with their fall, when we may thrive upon it, is a sin that easily besets us, yet is not thought so b...
ENGINES OF WAR: these were mighty engines, whatever form made of, and had their description here from the irresistible force wherewith they cast stones, and beat down all before them. AXES; whatever m...
Ezekiel 26:9 direct H5414 (H8799) rams H4239 H6904 walls H2346 axes H2719 down H5422 (H8799) towers...
“He will slay with the sword your daughters in the surrounding countryside, and he will make forts against you, and cast up a mount against you, and raise up the buckler (large body shield) against yo...
THE FIRST ORACLE AGAINST TYRE (EZEKIEL 26:1)....
CONTENTS: Coming judgment upon Tyre. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel, Nebuchadnezzar. CONCLUSION: It is just with God to blast the designs and projects of those who contrive to raise themselves upon the ru...
Ezekiel 26:2. _Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, Aha._ The Lord's people were not beloved among the gentile nations, because they were not what they seemed to be in regard to their holy temple. Havin...
_Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar King of Babylon._ THE PROPHECY AGAINST TYRE I. What were the grounds of her judgment. She was judged for her sins. 1. She abused the privilege of civi...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 26:1 In terms of length, Ezekiel’s oracles against Tyre are second only to his oracles against Egypt (Ezekiel 29:1). This is probably because, of the nations addressed by Ezeki
THE FALL OF TYRE. (Chap. 26) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—“In four sections, commencing with the formula, ‘Thus saith the Lord,’ Tyre, the mistress of the sea is threatened with destruction. In the first strophe...
EXPOSITION The prophetic messages against Ammon, Moab, Edom, and the Philistines were comparatively short. That against Tyre spreads over three chapters (Ezekiel 26:1). The special prominence thus giv...
Tonight turn in our Bibles to Ezekiel chapter 26. According to verse Ezekiel 26:1, this prophecy came to Ezekiel in the eleventh year of the king Zedekiah's reign, which would make it the year 586 B....
2 Chronicles 26:15...
How can Ezekiel’s prophecies be included in Scripture if they are wrong about Nebuchadnezzar? PROBLEM: According to the prophecies in Ezekiel 26, God would bring Nebuchadnezzar against the proud city...