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, 9); the assault, and capture and sack of the city (10 12), which is left a joyless ruin, a naked rock in the midst of the sea, never again to be built (13, 14).
Verse Ezekiel 26:7. _NEBUCHADREZZAR - KING OF KINGS_] An ancient title among those proud Asiatic despots [Arabic] _shahinshah_ and _padshah_, titles still in use....
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...
NEBUCHADREZZAR. Occurs thus spelled four times in this book (here; Ezekiel 29:18; Ezekiel 29:19. and Ezekiel 30:10). See note on Daniel 1:1....
NEBUCHADREZZAR, &C.— "This is the title which these princes shall assume, as well as their successors, the kings of Persia....
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...
For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and muc...
§ 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 *
NEBUCHADREZZAR. — So the name is very often written by Jeremiah and a few times by Ezekiel. It is, perhaps, a closer representation of the _Nabu-kudurriuzur_ of the Babylonian cylinders than the form...
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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...
_Kings: Nabuchodonosor (4 Kings xxv. 28.) or Alexander [the Great], who took Tyre. (Menochius)_...
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...
FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD,.... What follows; and declares by name the person that should be the instrument of this ruin, and the manner in which it should be brought about: I WILL BRING UPON TYRUS...
For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and much...
_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...
The Prophecy Concerning Nebuchadnezzar's Coming...
For thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, a king of kings, a ruler excelling in power, FROM THE NORTH, for it was from that side that the attack wou...
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...
I WILL BRING: see EZEKIEL 23:46. A KING OF KINGS; so he styled himself, according to the vaunting manner of those countries, and indeed, by the right of conquest, he was king of kings, having many tri...
Ezekiel 26:7 says H559 (H8804) Lord H136 GOD H3069 bring H935 (H8688) Tyre H6865 north H6828 Nebuchadnezzar...
THE FIRST ORACLE AGAINST TYRE (EZEKIEL 26:1)....
‘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...
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....
Daniel 2:37; Daniel 2:47; Ezekiel 17:14; Ezekiel 23:24; Ezekiel 26:10
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...