Ezekiel 26:20

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 OF THY FALL? The impression is herein noticed which the overthrow of Tyre produced on other maritime nations and upon her own colonies, e.g., Utica, Carthage, and Tartessus or Tarshish in Spain. THE ISLES - maritime lands. Even mighty Carthage used to send a yearly offering to the temple of Hercules at Tyre; and the mother-city gave high priests to her colonies. Hence, the consternation at her fall felt in the widely-scattered dependencies, with which she was so closely connected by the ties of religion, as well as commercial contact. SHAKE - metaphorically: be agitated (Jeremiah 49:21, "The...

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 to confirm our faith. All that is earthly is vanity and vexation. Those who now have the most established prosperity, will soon be out of sight and forgotten....

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 seas,” i. e., occupied by men who come from the seas. Tyre was an inhabited city rising from out of the sea. Ezekiel 26:20 Compare Isaiah 14:9. The image used by Isaiah and Jeremiah of Babylon is by Ezekiel applied to Tyre, as if to show that Tyre and Babylon alike represent the world-

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

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 been dead long ago: AND SHALL SET THEE IN THE LOW PARTS OF THE EARTH; where the dead are laid: IN PLACES DESOLATE OF OLD: long ago unfrequented by men; as such places be as are for the burial of the dead: WITH THEM THAT GO DOWN TO THE PIT, THAT THOU BE NOT INHABITED; all the inhabitants being free among the dead; a heap of words made use of to express the same thing, for the confirmation of it; namely, that the condition of Tyre should be like that of dead men, who have been of old dead, and are remembered no more. Jarchi interprets the "pit", of hell; as if this respected their everlasting perdition, as well as temporal ruin; it may be applied to the beast which goeth into perdition,...

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...

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 prophecy begins, Ezekiel 26:2), or we may read, with Septuagint, "nor yet arise", &c, completing the end of Tyre, as in Ezekiel 26:21. IN THE LAND OF THE LIVING. This expression occurs eight times without the Article ("the" living): here; Ezekiel 32:23; Ezekiel 32:24; Ezekiel 32:26;...

_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 entrance upon the descent into the pit, the place of the dead, just as frequently elsewhere (ch. 32) he snakes the grave the entrance into the underworld of the dead. Cf. Isaiah 14:11; Isaiah 14:19. _that descend into the pit_ Rather: THEM THAT ARE GONE DOWN INTO THE PIT, UNTO the people. The common phrase "they that go down to the pit" should be rendered: _that are gone down_(past). Ezek. always says _with_them that are gone down,...