Ezekiel 26:1

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) The instruments of executing it; (4) The effect produced on other nations by her downfall. In Ezekiel 27:1, a lamentation over the fall of such earthly splendour. In Ezekiel 28:1, an elegy addressed to the king on the humiliation of his sacrilegious pride. Ezekiel, in his prophecies as to the pagan, exhibits the dark side only; because he views them simply in their hostility to the people of God, which shall outlive them all. Isaiah ...

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 bad as really it is. But it comes from a selfish, covetous principle, and from that love of the world as our happiness, which the love of God expressly forbids. He often blasts the projects of those who would raise themselves on the ruin of others. The maxims most current in the trading world, are directly opposed to the law of God. But he will show himself against the money-loving, selfish traders, whose hearts, like those of Tyre, are hardened by the love of riches. Men have little cause to glory in things which stir up the envy and rapacity of others, and which are continually shifting from one to another; and in getting, keeping, and spending which, men provoke that God whose wrath turns j...

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 city of_ _antiquity, which was taken by Nebuchadnezzar after an arduous_ _siege of thirteen years. The prophet begins with introducing_ _Tyre insulting Jerusalem, and congratulating herself on the_ _prospect of accession to her commerce now that this city was no_ _more_, 1, 2. _Upon which God denounces utter destruction to Tyre, and the_...

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 Hophra back to the borders of Egypt. Tyre being thus relieved from a dangerous enemy, was exulting in her own deliverance, and in her neighbor’s ruin, when Ezekiel predicted the calamity about to befall her. The name Tyre means rock, and was given to the city in consequence of its position. This island-rock was the heart of Tyre, and the town upon the continent - called “Old Tyre,” possibly as having been the temporary position of the first settlers - was the outgrowth of the island city. The scanty records of ancient history give no, distinct evidence of the capture of insular Tyre by Nebuchadnezzar; but the fact is very probable. Compare especially Ezekiel 26:7;...

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 given to the latter city was probably due to its political importance in Ezekiel's time, possibly also to the personal knowledge which may be inferred from his minute description of its magnificence and its commerce. It is ushered in with special solemnity as "a word of Jehovah." EZEKIEL 26:1 IN THE ELEVENTH YEAR, etc. The last date given (Ezekiel 24:1) was the tenth day of the tenth month of the ninth year. We have now come to the eleventh year, on which, on the ninth

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; some have thought the first month, and so it was the first day of the year; others the fourth, the same in which the city of Jerusalem was taken; but more probably the fifth, the first of which was twenty days after the taking it; in which time the news of it might be brought to Tyre, at which she rejoiced; and for which her destruction is threatened, and here prophesied of: THAT THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME UNTO ME, SAYING; as follows:...

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 should come to pass. In Ezekiel 26:1 we have the overthrow of the powerful city predicted. The city of Tyrus (which means rock) was partly built upon an island off the mainland in the Mediterranean Sea. It was an ancient Phoenician city and is mentioned in Scripture for the first time in Joshua 19:29, where it is called “the strong city.” It had a wonderful commerce, a description of which in its variety, we find in the twenty-seventh chapter. It was inhabited by seafaring men, and the prophet Isaiah describes this wealthy

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 of Jerusalem, whom, as the gate of the peoples, she regarded as in some sort a rival, taxing, if not partially intercepting, the trade that passed between the south and Tyre (Ezekiel 26:1). The agent of Tyre's destruction is to be Nebuchadrezzar, against whom she had rebelled. At this point there is a realistic description of an ancient siege; and, when at length the island city is taken, it will ring with the unwonted sound of chariot wheels and horses-' hoofs, and be reduced in the end to a bare rock (Ezekiel 26:7). (The pillars of...

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 year of the Temple (2 Kings 25:8). Compare Ezekiel 26:2. This prophecy _began_ to be fulfilled then, and Tyre was taken by Nebuchadnezzar after. thirteen years' siege (see Isaiah 23:1), and Josephus (Antiquities x. 11, 1; _cont_. Apion, i. 20); but not complete

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 Nebuchadnezzar. Secondly, ch. 27. Dirge over the downfall of Tyre under the figure of a gallant ship steered into dangerous waters and suffering shipwreck. Thirdly, ch. 28. The pride and fall of the prince of Tyre. CHAPTER 26 Ch. 26 Prophecy of Tyre's destruction The prophecy has these divisions: (1) Ezekiel 26:1. The sin of Tyre, and therefore her downfall. (2) Ezekiel 26:7. The instrument of her destruction, Nebuchadnezzar. (3) Ezekiel 26:15. Dismay of the princes