Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible
Ezekiel 26:20
And I shall set glory, &c.— Nor shalt thou be, or continue in the land of the living. Houbigant.
And I shall set glory, &c.— Nor shalt thou be, or continue in the land of the living. Houbigant.
Verse Ezekiel 26:20. _AND I SHALL SET GLORY IN THE LAND OF THE LIVING._] Judea so called, the land of the living God....
The effect of the fall of Tyre. Ezekiel 26:16 CLOTHE THEMSELVES WITH TREMBLING - Mourners change their bright robes for sad garments. Ezekiel 26:17 OF SEAFARING MEN - literally, “from the s
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...
DESCEND INTO THE PIT. The people of Tyre are meant, as joining those who were dead and buried. AND. SHALL SET GLORY. This is either. parenthetical contrast referring to Jerusalem (with which the proph...
_when I shall bring_ Rather in connexion with Ezekiel 26:19: when I shall make thee a desolate city … THEN I SHALL BRING THEE DOWN. The prophet regards Tyre's sinking beneath the waters as her entranc...
D. The Doom of Tyre 26:19-21 TRANSLATION (19) For thus says the Lord GOD: When I shall make you a desolation, like the cities which are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon you, and the...
Thus saith the Lord GOD to Tyrus; Shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall, when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in the midst of thee? SHALL NOT THE ISLES SHAKE AT THE SOUND...
Tyre is personified, and represented as going down into the under-world of the dead: see Ezekiel 31:14; Ezekiel 32:18. AND SHALL SET GLORY] perhaps we should read, with LXX, 'nor arise.'...
§ 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 *
WITH THEM THAT DESCEND INTO THE PIT. — Comp. Isaiah 14:9. Tyre is here represented, as Babylon is there, as joining itself to the dead — a striking figure to indicate its utter and final destruction....
וְ הֹורַדְתִּיךְ֩ אֶת ־יֹ֨ורְדֵי בֹ֜ור אֶל ־ע
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...
When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people (o) of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down t...
_Everlasting: in the grave, till the day of judgment, Psalm xlviii. 12., and Wisdom xii. 5. --- Living, assigned to Israel, (chap. xxxii. 24.; Calmet) where holy people adore the true God, and shall r...
Those that favor the idea of mystic Tyre being here spoken of, and not ancient Tyre, (which could never be so considerable in point of commerce and of riches), conclude, that what is here spoken refer...
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...
WHEN I SHALL BRING THEE DOWN WITH THEM THAT DESCEND INTO THE PIT,.... The grave, and make thee like to them: WITH THE PEOPLE OF OLD TIME; either the people of the old world, or, however, who have bee...
When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to th...
_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 wal...
when I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, to all those destroyed in former times, by similar catastrophes, WITH THE PEOPLE OF OLD TIME, particularly those swept away in the Del...
THE EFFECT OF THE FALL OF TYRE...
15-21 See how high, how great Tyre had been. See how low Tyre is made. The fall of others should awaken us out of security. Every discovery of the fulfilment of a Scripture prophecy, is like a miracle...
BRING THEE DOWN; destroy thee, slay thee, and bury thee, throw thee into the grave. THE PEOPLE OF OLD TIME; who are long since dead, and gone to eternity, the people of eternity. IN THE LOW PARTS OF T...
Ezekiel 26:20 down H3381 (H8689) descend H3381 (H8802) Pit H953 people H5971 old H5769 dwell H3427 ...
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...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 26:19 These verses are a preview of the close of the entire foreign-nation oracle collection, which mourns the arrival of the nations in the underworld place of the dead (Eze
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....
Ezekiel 28:25; Ezekiel 28:26; Ezekiel 32:18; Ezekiel 32:23;...
Bring thee down — When I shall slay thee, and throw thee into the grave. With the people — Who are long since dead, and gone to eternity. The low parts — Another description of the grave, from the sit...