Verse Ezekiel 26:17. Wast strong in the sea] The strength of Tyre was so great, that Alexander despaired of being able to reduce it unless he could fill up that arm of the sea that ran between it and the main land. And this work cost his army seven months of labour.
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...
TAKE UP. raise. A LAMENTATION. a dirge. THAT WAST INHABITED OF SEAFARING MEN: or, that west an abode from the seas. The Syriac _kataluo_ means _to lodge_, and is the rendering of Hebrew. _yashab_ in...
_of seafaring men_ lit. inhabited _from the seas_. _cause their terror_ Rather: CAUSED. A.V. "all that haunt it" has taken the ref. to be to the sea, which is almost necessary, though the present text...
Lament of the princes over Tyre....
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....
C. The Result of Tyre's Destruction 26:15-18 TRANSLATION (15) Thus says the Lord GOD to Tyre: Shall not the islands shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, when the slaughter occurs...
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...
26:17 seas, (a-23) i.e. by those coming by way of the sea. therein! (b-49) Or 'that haunt it.'...
§ 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 *
INHABITED OF SEAFARING MEN. — Rather, _in-habited from the sea._ The word, which is very common, never bears the sense of men. The thought is that the rock of Tyre, built up with dwellings to the wate...
וְ נָשְׂא֨וּ עָלַ֤יִךְ קִינָה֙ וְ אָ֣מְרוּ לָ
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...
And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, [that wast] inhabited (h) by seafaring men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabit...
_Dwellest in. Hebrew, "of the seas." Protestants, "seafaring men," (Haydock) being near the sea, or thence deriving thy riches._...
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...
AND THEY SHALL TAKE UP A LAMENTATION FOR THEE, AND SAY UNTO THEE,.... The following mournful song: HOW ART THOU DESTROYED THAT WAST INHABITED OF SEAFARING MEN; or, "of the seas": by men who used the...
And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, [that wast] inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants...
_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 prin...
And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, a song of mourning, AND SAY TO THEE, HOW ART THOU DESTROYED, being overthrown in such a great calamity, THAT WAST INHABITED OF SEAFARING MEN, literally,...
THE EFFECT OF THE FALL OF TYRE...
SEAFARING: _ Heb._ of the seas...
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...
THEY; the princes of the sea, EZEKIEL 26:16. TAKE UP A LAMENTATION FOR THEE; solemnly, heartily, and for many days bewail thee. SAY TO THEE, by a prosopopceia, or fiction of persons, personate a disma...
Ezekiel 26:17 up H5375 (H8804) lamentation H7015 say H559 (H8804) perished H6 (H8804) inhabited H3427 ...
“And they will take up a lamentation for you, and say to you, ‘How you are destroyed from the seas, O inhabited one, O city renowned, Who was mighty in the seas, She and her inhabitants, Who caus...
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 26:1 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....
2 Samuel 1:19; 2 Samuel 1:25; Ezekiel 19:1; Ezekiel 19:14; Ezekiel