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This Chapter, as well as the two which follow, contains the Lord's judgment upon Tyre, and upon the same account, her rejoicing in the afflictions of God's Israel. The King of Babylon is decreed to become the scourge of Tyre.
CHAPTER XXVI _This prophecy, beginning here and ending in the twentieth verse_ _of the_ twenty-eighth _chapter, is a declaration of the judgments_ _of God against Tyre, a very famous commercial cit...
Prophecies against Tyre. The siege of Tyre lasted thirteen years beginning 585 b.c., about three years after the capture of Jerusalem. While besieging Jerusalem, Nebuchadnezzar had driven Pharaoh Hoph...
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...
THE ELEVENTH YEAR. The month not given; but see Jeremiah 39:1; Jeremiah 52:4. See note on Ezekiel 30:20. Jerusalem fell probably in the fifth month, after the fall but before the destruction in that y...
Prophecy against Tyre The three Chapter s 26 28 are occupied with Tyre, containing threats of her destruction in various forms. First, ch. 26. Literal prophecy of Tyre's destruction at the hands of...
_first_day of _the month_ The 11th year of Jehoiachin's captivity was that in which Jerusalem was taken. On the 9th day of the 4th month of this year the city was stormed, and on the 10th day of the 5...
IN THE FIRST DAY OF THE MONTH— _The first month, the first day of the month._ Houbigant. See chap. Ezekiel 20:1....
CHAPTER THIRTEEN JUDGMENT ON TYRE AND SIDON 26:1-28:26 The Phoenician seaport cities of Tyre and Sidon next come under the purview of the prophet. Tyre, the more important of the two cities, receives...
And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, In Ezekiel 26:1, Ezekiel sets forth: (1) Tyre's sin; (2) Its doom; (3) Th...
THE ELEVENTH YEAR] 586 b.c. The month is not given, but the date must have been after the destruction of Jerusalem, in the fifth month of that year (2 Kings 25:8): see Ezekiel 26:2....
§ 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 *
IN THE FIRST DAY OF THE MONTH. — The year was that in which Jerusalem fell (2 Kings 25:2; 2 Kings 25:8), but the month is not given here, and cannot now be ascertained. It is plain from Ezekiel 26:2 t...
וַ יְהִ֛י בְּ עַשְׁתֵּֽי ־עֶשְׂרֵ֥ה שָׁנָ֖ה ב
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 it came to pass in the (a) eleventh year, in the first [day] of the month, [that] the word of the LORD came to me, saying, (a) Either of the captivity of Jeconiah or of the reign of Zedekiah....
_Year of the prophet's captivity. (Haydock) --- He still dates from the transmigration of Joachin, chap. i., &c. (Worthington) --- Some think he speaks of the first, fourth, or fifth month. Tyre was n...
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 IT CAME TO PASS IN THE ELEVENTH YEAR,.... Of Jehoiachin's captivity and Zedekiah's reign, the same year that Jerusalem was taken: IN THE FIRST DAY OF THE MONTH; but what month is not mentioned; s...
And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first [day] of the month, [that] the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Ver. 1. _In the eleventh year._] Of Jehoiakim's captivity and Zedekiah's r...
_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....
A GENERAL OUTLINE OF THE JUDGMENT...
And it came to pass in the eleventh year, namely, after the deportation of Jehoiachin, IN THE FIRST DAY OF THE MONTH, the month of the year not being mentioned, THAT THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME UNTO ME,...
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...
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 26 Tyrus, for insulting over the distress of Jerusalem, is threatened with destruction, EZEKIEL 26:1: of which Nebuchadrezzar shall be made the instrument, EZEKIEL 26:7. The consternat...
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‘And so it was that in the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me saying, “Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, ‘Aha, she is broken who was th...
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....
Ezekiel 1:2; Ezekiel 20:1; Ezekiel 8:1; Jeremiah 39:2...
In the eleventh year — Of Jechoniah's captivity, the year wherein Jerusalem was taken. The month — That month which followed the taking of Jerusalem....