What does Ezekiel 26:8 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field: and he shall make a fort against thee, and casta a mount against thee, and lift up the buckler against thee."
Verse Ezekiel 26:8. _THY DAUGHTERS IN THE FIELD_] This seems to be spoken of _Palaetyre_, or Tyre on the main land; for _forts, mounts, engines_ _of war, horses_, and _chariots_ could not be brought t...
The description of the siege is that of a town invested by land. Ezekiel 26:7 NEBUCHADREZZAR - Jeremiah 21:2 note. Ezekiel 26:8 LIFT UP THE BUCKLER - i. e., set a wall of shields, under cover of w...
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...
DAUGHTERS WHICH ARE IN THE FIELD. her daughter cities and towns inland....
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...
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...
_HE SHALL SLAY WITH THE SWORD THY DAUGHTERS IN THE FIELD: AND HE SHALL MAKE A FORT AGAINST THEE, AND CAST A MOUNT AGAINST THEE, AND LIFT UP THE BUCKLER AGAINST THEE._ No JFB commentary on this verse....
§ 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 *LORD spo...
A FORT... A MOUNT. — These and the following particulars of the siege indicate the use of the ordinary methods as in the attack of a city on the mainland. The explanation of this is doubtless partly i...
בְּנֹותַ֥יִךְ בַּ † שָּׂדֶ֖ה בַּ † חֶ֣רֶב יַהֲרֹ֑ג וְ נָתַ֨ן עָלַ֜יִךְ דָּיֵ֗ק וְ שָׁפַ֤ךְ עָלַ֨יִךְ֙
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...
_Daughters. Many towns were subject to Tyre: almost all Ph\'9cnicia acknowledged her dominion, as well as (Calmet) the seas to which her fleets went, ver. 15. (Selden, Mare i. 6.; Curtius iv.) --- The...
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...
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), be...
HE SHALL SLAY WITH THE SWORD THY DAUGHTERS IN THE FIELD,.... The first thing he would do would be to destroy the cities, towns and villages on the continent, near to Tyre, and dependent on it, as in...
He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field: and he shall make a fort against thee, and cast a mount against thee, and lift up the buckler against thee. Ver. 8. _He shall slay with the sw...
_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...
The Prophecy Concerning Nebuchadnezzar's Coming...
CAST A MOUNT AGAINST THEE: Or, pour out the engine of shot...
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 ba...
See EZEKIEL 26:6. MAKE A FORT AGAINST THEE: see EZEKIEL 4:2, EZEKIEL 17:17. CAST A MOUNT AGAINST THEE: he shall draw a line round about thee, and build bastions, raise sconces to defend the lines, to...
Ezekiel 26:8 slay H2026 (H8799) sword H2719 daughter H1323 fields H7704 up H8210 (H8804) mound H5550 build H5414 (H8804) wall H1785 raise H6965 (H8689) defense H6793 he shall make - Ezekiel 21:22; 2...
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...
_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 civ...
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 gi...
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 20:15; Ezekiel 21:22; Jeremiah 32:24; Jeremiah 52:4; Jeremiah 6:6...
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...