CHAPTER S 26-28 THE ORACLES AGAINST TYRE AND ZIDON. Oracles against Tyre continue throughout the next three Chapter s in some detail. Tyre seems to have exalted itself to godlike status, its kings making huge claims, and it exulted in the destruction of Jerusalem because Jerusalem was a trade rival... [ Continue Reading ]
‘And so it was that in the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me saying, “Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, ‘Aha, she is broken who was the gate of the peoples, she has been turned to me. I will be replenished now that she is laid waste'.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE FIRST ORACLE AGAINST TYRE (EZEKIEL 26:1).... [ Continue Reading ]
‘Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, “Behold I am against you, O Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against you, as the sea causes his waves to come up. And they will destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers. I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock, she... [ Continue Reading ]
-6 “And she will become a spoil to the nations, and her daughters who are in the surrounding country will be slain with the sword, and they will know that I am Yahweh.” ‘A spoil to the nations.' Compare Ezekiel 25:7; also see Ezekiel 7:21. She had rejoiced to see Jerusalem spoiled, now she would be... [ Continue Reading ]
‘For thus says the Lord Yahweh, “I will bring on Tyre Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, king of kings (supreme king), from the north, with horses and with chariots, and with horsemen, and a company and much people.”.' Nebuchadrezzar may have been the ‘king of kings', but the idea is that the supreme... [ Continue Reading ]
“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 you, and he will set his battering-engines against your walls, and with his axes he will break down yo... [ Continue Reading ]
“Because his horses are so abundant their dust will cover you. Your walls will shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wagons, and of the chariots, when he enters into your gates, as men enter a city in which a breach has been made. With the hooves of his horses he will tread down all your st... [ Continue Reading ]
“And they will make a spoil of your riches, and make a prey of your merchandise, and they will break down your walls, and destroy your pleasant houses, and they will lay your stones, and your timber, and your dust in the midst of the waters.” The riches from trade and merchanting would become a spo... [ Continue Reading ]
“And I will make the noise of your songs cease, and the sound of your harps will be heard no more. You will be a place for spreading nets, and you will be built no more. For I Yahweh have spoken it,” says the Lord Yahweh.' The prophecy looks far into the future, when Tyre's destiny would be fulfill... [ Continue Reading ]
‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh to Tyre, “Will not the isles/coastlands shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, when the slaughter is made in the midst of you? Then all the princes of the sea will come down from their thrones, and lay aside their robes, and strip off their bordered garme... [ Continue Reading ]
“And they will take up a lamentation for you, and say to you, ‘How you are destroyed from the seas, O inhabited one, O city renowned, Who was mighty in the seas, She and her inhabitants, Who caused their terror to be On all who inhabited it. Now the isles will tremble, On the day of your fal... [ Continue Reading ]
‘For thus says the Lord Yahweh, “When I make you a desolate city like the cities which are not inhabited, when I bring up the deep on you, and the great waters cover you, then will I bring you down with those who descend to the pit, to the people of old time, and will make you to dwell in the nether... [ Continue Reading ]