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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ezekiel 26:11

Thy strong garrisons. — This is the only instance in the Bible in which this common word is so translated, although a word closely akin to it is rendered garrison throughout the Books of Samuel. Both words mean a pillar set up as a monument or memorial. Translate, therefore, the pillars of thy strength. It is probable that the pillars intended are those mentioned by Herodotus (Bk. 2:44) as standing in the Temple of Hercules at Tyre, one of gold and the other of emerald.

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    The description of the siege is that of a town invested by land. Ezekiel 26:7 NEBUCHADREZZAR - Jeremiah 21:2 note. Ezekiel 26:8...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    GARRISONS. or, pillars. Seen in vast numbers in the ruins to-day....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _thy strong garrisons_ thy STRONG (or, proud) PILLARS. The word is almost always used of a pillar having religious meaning, particularly the obelisk dedicated to Baal (2 Kings 10:26). The rendering "p...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy streets: he shall slay thy people by the sword, and thy strong garrisons shall go down to the ground. AND THY STRONG GARRISONS SHALL GO DOWN...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    26:11 pillars (d-24) Or 'columns.' see 2 Kings 3:2 ; 2 Kings 10:26 ....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    § 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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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 *

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    בְּ פַרְסֹ֣ות סוּסָ֔יו יִרְמֹ֖ס אֶת ־כָּל ־חֽ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy streets: he shall slay thy people by the sword, and thy strong (e) garrisons shall go down to the ground. (e) For Tyre was built by art and by...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Statues. The citizens chained the golden statue of Apollo to the altar of Hercules, for fear of its leaving them, when Alexander [the Great] attacked the town. (Curtius iv.) --- Hiram placed a pillar...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    WITH THE HOOFS OF HIS HORSES SHALL HE TREAD DOWN ALL THY STREETS,.... Such a number of horses running to and fro in the streets, and prancing upon the pavements, shall break them up, and destroy them,...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy streets: he shall slay thy people by the sword, and thy strong garrisons shall go down to the ground._ Ver. 11. _And thy strong garrisons._]...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Prophecy Concerning Nebuchadnezzar's Coming...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy streets, tramping the pavement to pieces; HE SHALL SLAY THY PEOPLE BY THE SWORD, AND THY STRONG GARRISONS SHALL GO DOWN TO THE GROUND, literall...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    In proud, stately, and menacing posture shall the king of Babylon ride through all the streets of thy city, to the grief and sorrow of the Tyrians; and so shall his troops do too. HE SHALL SLAY THY PE...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ezekiel 26:11 hooves H6541 horses H5483 trample H7429 (H8799) streets H2351 slay H2026 (H8799) people H5971 sword

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    “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...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE FIRST ORACLE AGAINST TYRE (EZEKIEL 26:1)....

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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 Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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....

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Habakkuk 1:8; Isaiah 26:5; Isaiah 5:28; Jeremiah 51:27...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Garrisons — Bastions, or forts, or triumphal arches....

  • When Critics Ask: A Popular Handbook on Bible Difficulties, Norman L. Geisler and Thomas Howe, 1960

    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...

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