Ezekiel 26 - Introduction
_TYRUS, FOR INSULTING AGAINST JERUSALEM, IS THREATENED. THE POWER OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR AGAINST HER. THE MOURNING AND ASTONISHMENT OF THE SEA, AT HER FALL._ _Before Christ 588._... [ Continue Reading ]
_TYRUS, FOR INSULTING AGAINST JERUSALEM, IS THREATENED. THE POWER OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR AGAINST HER. THE MOURNING AND ASTONISHMENT OF THE SEA, AT HER FALL._ _Before Christ 588._... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THE FIRST DAY OF THE MONTH— _The first month, the first day of the month._ Houbigant. See chap. Ezekiel 20:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
SHE IS BROKEN, &C.— _She is broken: the commerce of the people is turned unto me. She who was full of citizens is laid waste._ Houbigant. See ch. Ezekiel 27:3. Tyre was noted for her commerce; so that when Jerusalem was taken, the spoil of the city was carried thither for sale, and several of the in... [ Continue Reading ]
AS THE SEA, &C.— They shall be as loud, as numerous, as irresistible, as the waves of the sea. This is one of the beautiful and expressive ironies which occur in the magnificent prophesy here recorded.... [ Continue Reading ]
I WILL ALSO SCRAPE HER DUST FROM HER— _I will brush away the dust out of her, and reduce her to a dry rock:_ Houbigant: an allusion to the custom in Palestine of fertilizing particular spots by carrying mould to them from other places less eligible for the purpose of sowing or planting. Chandler ren... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HER DAUGHTERS WHICH ARE IN THE FIELD— By the _daughters_ of Tyre are meant the lesser towns, which were under her jurisdiction; for Tyre was very powerful, and ruled over the greater part of Phoenicia.... [ Continue Reading ]
NEBUCHADREZZAR, &C.— "This is the title which these princes shall assume, as well as their successors, the kings of Persia.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY SHALL LAY, &C.— The ruins of old Tyre contributed much to the taking of the new city; for with the stones, timber, and rubbish of it, Alexander built a bank or causey from the continent to the island; thereby literally fulfilling the words of the prophet. He was seven months in completing t... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN ALL THE PRINCES OF THE SEA, &C.— That is, "All the princes and rich merchants of Sidon, Carthage, and other maritime cities, who traded with Tyre, shall express a deep concern for her misfortune." Houbigant reads the 17th verse thu_s, How is she destroyed, who hath been so long inhabited! the r... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW SHALL THE ISLES TREMBLE— _Now the people are terrified at thy overthrow: Yea the isles of the sea are troubled at thy destruction._ Houbigant.... [ Continue Reading ]
I SHALL BRING UP THE DEEP UPON THEE— _I will raise against thee a mole of waters._ Houbigant.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND I SHALL SET GLORY, &C.— _Nor shalt thou be,_ or _continue in the land of the living._ Houbigant.... [ Continue Reading ]
I WILL MAKE THEE A TERROR— These prophesies, like most others, were to receive their accomplishment by degrees. Nebuchadrezzar destroyed the old city, and Alexander employed the ruins and rubbish in making his causey from the continent to the island, which hence-forward were joined together. Bishop... [ Continue Reading ]