_In the eleventh year, in the first day of the month_ By the eleventh year seems to be intended the eleventh of Jehoiachin's captivity; for Ezekiel seems to reckon this time chiefly from that period. What month it was is not mentioned: some think the first month of the year is meant; others the firs... [ Continue Reading ]
_Because that Tyrus hath said, Aha, she is broken_, &c. The meaning seems to be, the city is broken, at whose gates the people entered in; that is, the place is demolished where there used to be a confluence of people from all parts, especially at the solemn festivals. _She is turned unto me, I shal... [ Continue Reading ]
_They shall destroy the walls of Tyrus_, &c. The expressions of these verses signify that Tyre should be entirely demolished, and that the place where the city stood should be made as bare as the top of a rock, and that it should be employed to no other use but that of a desolate shore, the drying o... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 thirteen years, when Ithobal was king there, and began the siege in the seventh year of Ithobal's reign,... [ Continue Reading ]
_And they shall make a spoil of thy riches_ The Chaldean army shall hinder thy trade during the war, and plunder thee in the end of it. _And make a prey of thy merchandise_ Of the fruit, or gains, of thy merchandise. _And destroy thy pleasant houses The houses of thy desire_, as the margin reads it,... [ Continue Reading ]
_Shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall?_ All those that dwell upon the sea-coast near thee shall be thrown into a consternation at the news of thy being taken and destroyed. _All the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones_ All the princes and rich merchants (or the mercha... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thus saith the Lord, When I shall make thee a desolate city _ When I shall fulfil these predictions, and make thee what I now threaten to make thee; _like the cities that are not inhabited_ Whose walls are broken down, and whose streets are all solitary. _When I shall bring up the deep upon thee_ T... [ Continue Reading ]