1<\/strong>. first<\/em> day of the month<\/em> ] 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 5th month it was destroyed (Jer 52:6<\/span>; Jer 52:12<\/span>). The present prophecy assumes the destruction of the city ( Eze 26:2<\/em><\/span>). The month is not stated. If the 11th year be read in Eze 33:21<\/span> (see there), fugitives announcing the fall of the city reached the prophet on the 5th of the 10th month of that year. The prophecy is probably later than this date, and the month may be the 11th or 12th.<\/p>\n 1<\/strong>. All prophecy is moral, is based on moral considerations. What the prophet aims his threats against is not the prosperity of Tyre, but its pride of heart, which was rebellion against Jehovah, God over all. The humiliation of Tyre was morally as good as its ruin, in so far as it shewed that there were higher forces in the world than itself.<\/p>\n 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 neighbors 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 Eze 26:7-12<\/span>; Eze 29:18<\/span>. The present state of Tyre is one of utter desolation, though the end was long delayed (compare Isa. 23<\/span>). Tyre was great and wealthy under Persian, Greek, Roman, and even Muslim masters. The final ruin of Tyre was due to the sultan of Egypt (1291 a.d.).<\/P> In the first day of the month – <\/B>The number of the month being omitted, many suppose the month to mean the month when Jerusalem was taken (the rebirth month), called the month, as being so well known. The capture of the city is known to have taken place on the ninth day of the fourth month and its destruction on the seventh day of the fifth month. This prophecy therefore preceded by a few days the capture of the city. The condition of Jerusalem in the latter months of its siege was such that the Tyrians may well have exulted as though it had already fallen.<\/P> <\/p>\n CHAPTER XXVI <\/P> This prophecy, beginning here and ending in the twentieth verse<\/I><\/P> of the<\/I> twenty-eighth chapter, is a declaration of the judgments<\/I><\/P> of God against Tyre, a very famous commercial city of<\/I><\/P> antiquity, which was taken by Nebuchadnezzar after an arduous<\/I><\/P> siege of thirteen years. The prophet begins with introducing<\/I><\/P> Tyre insulting Jerusalem, and congratulating herself on the<\/I><\/P> prospect of accession to her commerce now that this city was no<\/I><\/P> more<\/I>, 1, 2.<\/P> Upon which God denounces utter destruction to Tyre, and the<\/I><\/P> cities depending on her<\/I>, 3-6.<\/P> We have then a particular account of the person raised up in<\/I><\/P> the course of the Divine providence to accomplish this work.<\/I><\/P> We see, as it were, his mighty hosts, (which are likened to the<\/I><\/P> waves of the sea for their multitude,) raising the mounds,<\/I><\/P> setting the engines, and shaking the walls; we hear the noise<\/I><\/P> of the horsemen, and the sound of their cars; we see the clouds<\/I><\/P> of smoke and dust; we see the sword bathed in blood, and hear<\/I><\/P> the groans of the dying. Tyre, (whose buildings were very<\/I><\/P> splendid and magnificent, and whose walls were<\/I> one hundred and<\/P> fifty feet in height, with a proportionable breadth,)<\/I><\/P> immediately disappears; her strong (and as she thought<\/I><\/P> impregnable) towers are thrown down; and her very dust is<\/I><\/P> buried in the sea. Nothing remains but the bare rock<\/I>, 7-14.<\/P> The scene is then varied. The isles and adjacent regions, by a<\/I><\/P> very strong and beautiful figure, are represented to be shaken,<\/I><\/P> as with a mighty earthquake by violent concussion occasioned by<\/I><\/P> the fall of Tyre. The groans of the dying reach the ears of the<\/I><\/P> people inhabiting these regions. Their princes, alarmed for<\/I><\/P> themselves and grieved for Tyre, descend from their thrones,<\/I><\/P> lay aside their robes, and clothe themselves with-sackcloth?-no,<\/I><\/P> but with<\/I> trembling! Arrayed in this astonishing attire, the<\/I><\/P> prophet introduces them as a chorus of mourners, lamenting Tyre<\/I><\/P> in a funeral song or dirge, as customary on the death of<\/I><\/P> renowned personages. And pursuing the same image still farther,<\/I><\/P> in the person of God, he performs the last sad office for her.<\/I><\/P> She is brought forth from her place in solemn pomp; the pit is<\/I><\/P> dug for her; and she is buried, to rise no more<\/I>, 15-21.<\/P> Such is the prophecy concerning Tyre, comprehending both the<\/I><\/P> city on the continent and that on the island, and most<\/I><\/P> punctually fulfilled in regard to both. That on the continent<\/I><\/P> was razed to the ground by Nebuchadnezzar, B.C. 572, and that<\/I><\/P> on the island by Alexander the Great, B.C. 332. And at present,<\/I><\/P> and for ages past, this ancient and renowned city, once the<\/I><\/P> emporium of the world, and by her great naval superiority the<\/I><\/P> centre of a powerful monarchy, is literally what the prophet<\/I><\/P> has repeatedly foretold it should be, and what in his time was,<\/I><\/P> humanly speaking, so highly improbable<\/I>-a BARE rock, a place to<\/P> spread nets on! <\/P> NOTES ON CHAP. XXVI<\/P> <\/P> Verse 1<\/span>. The eleventh year<\/B><\/I>] This was the year in which Jerusalem was taken; the eleventh<\/I> of the captivity of Jeconiah, and the eleventh<\/I> of the reign of Zedekiah. What month<\/I> we are not told, though the day<\/I> is mentioned. There have been many conjectures about this, which are not of sufficient consequence to be detailed.<\/P> <\/p>\n The eleventh year<\/B> of Jeconiahs captivity, the year wherein Jerusalem was taken. <\/P> The first day of the month; <\/B>that month which followed the taking of Jerusalem, i.e. the fifth month; for Jerusalem was taken on the fourth month, ninth day, and in twenty days after the news was brought to Tyrus, which behaved herself as the prophet will declare. <\/P> <\/p>\n 1.<\/B> The specification of thedate, which had been omitted in the case of the four precedingobjects of judgment, marks the greater weight attached to the fall ofTyre. <\/P> eleventh year<\/B>namely,after the carrying away of Jehoiachin, the year of the fall ofJerusalem. The number of the month is, however, omitted, and the dayonly given. As the month of the taking<\/I> of Jerusalem wasregarded as one of particular note, namely, the fourth month,<\/I>also the fifth,<\/I> on which it was actually destroyed<\/I>(Jer 52:6<\/span>; Jer 52:12<\/span>;Jer 52:13<\/span>), RABBIDAVID reasonably supposesthat Tyre uttered her taunt at the close of the fourth month, as hernearness to Jerusalem enabled her to hear of its fall very soon, andthat Ezekiel met it with his threat against herself on “thefirst day” of the fifth month.<\/I><\/P><\/p>\n And it came to pass in the eleventh year<\/strong>,…. Of Jehoiachin’s captivity and Zedekiah’s reign, the same year that Jerusalem was taken:<\/p>\n in the first day of the month<\/strong>; 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:<\/p>\n that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying<\/strong>; as follows:<\/p>\n 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 (Eze 26:2-6<\/span>) there is a general threat of its destruction by a host of nations. In the second (Eze 26:7-14<\/span>), the enemy is mentioned by name, and designated as a powerful one; and the conquest and destruction emanating from his are circumstantially described. In the third (Eze 26:15-18<\/span>), the impression which this event would produce upon the inhabitants of the islands and coast-lands is depicted. And in the fourth (Eze 26:19-21<\/span>), the threat is repeated in an energetic manner, and the prophecy is thereby rounded off.<\/p>\n This word of God bears in the introduction to the date of its delivery to the prophet and enunciation by him. – Eze 26:1<\/span>. It came to pass in the eleventh year, on the first of the month, that the word of Jehovah came to me, saying.<\/em> – The eleventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin was the year of the conquest and destruction of Jerusalem (Jer 52:6<\/span>, Jer 52:12<\/span>), the occurrence of which is presupposed in Eze 26:2<\/span> also. There is something striking in the omission of the number of the month both here and in Eze 32:17<\/span>, as the day of the month is given. The attempt to discover in the words an indication of the number of the month, by understanding as signifying the first month of the year: “on the first as regards the month,” equivalent to, “in the first month, on the first day of it” (lxx, Luther, Kliefoth, and others), is as forced and untenable as the notion that that particular month is intended which had peculiar significance for Ezekiel, namely, the month in which Jerusalem was conquered and destroyed. The first explanation is proved to be erroneous by Eze 26:2<\/span>, where the destruction of Jerusalem, which occurred in the fifth month of the year named, is assumed to have already happened. The second view is open to the objection that the conquest of Jerusalem happened in the fourth month, and the destruction in the fifth (Jer 52:6<\/span> and Jer 52:12<\/span>); and it cannot be affirmed that the conquest was of less importance to Ezekiel than the destruction. We cannot escape the conclusion, therefore, that the number of the month has been dropped through a corruption of the text, which has occurred in copying; but in that case we must give up all hope of being able to determine what the month really was. The conjecture offered by Ewald and Hitzig, that one of the last months of the year is intended, because Ezekiel could not have known before then what impression the conquest of Jerusalem had made upon Tyre, stands or falls with the naturalistic view entertained by these writers with regard to prophecy.<\/p>\n The Burden of Tyre.<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/I><\/span><\/P> <\/TD> B. C.<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN> 588.<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P> <\/TD> <\/TR> <\/TABLE> 1 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first day<\/I> of the month, that<\/I> the word of the LORD<\/B> came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that was<\/I> the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished, now<\/I> she is laid waste: 3 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD<\/B>; Behold, I am<\/I> against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up. 4 And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock. 5 It shall be a place for<\/I> the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea: for I have spoken it,<\/I> saith the Lord GOD<\/B>: and it shall become a spoil to the nations. 6 And her daughters which are<\/I> in the field shall be slain by the sword; and they shall know that I am<\/I> the LORD<\/B>. 7 For thus saith the Lord GOD<\/B>; Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and much people. 8 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. 9 And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers. 10 By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach. 11 With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy streets: he shall slay thy people by the sword, and thy strong garrisons shall go down to the ground. 12 And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water. 13 And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard. 14 And I will make thee like the top of a rock: thou shalt be a place<\/I> to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the LORD<\/B> have spoken it,<\/I> saith the Lord GOD<\/B>.<\/P> This prophecy is dated in the eleventh year, which was the year that Jerusalem was taken, and in the first day of the month,<\/I> but it is not said what month, some think the month in which Jerusalem was taken, which was the fourth month, others the month after; or perhaps it was the first month, and so it was the first day of the year. Observe here,<\/P> I. The pleasure with which the Tyrians looked upon the ruins of Jerusalem. Ezekiel was a great way off, in Babylon, but God told him what Tyrus said against Jerusalem (v.<\/I><\/span> 2<\/span>): “Aha! she is broken,<\/I> broken to pieces, that was the gates of the people,<\/I> to whom there was a great resort and where there was a general rendezvous of all nations, some upon one account and some upon another, and I shall get by it; all the wealth, power, and interest, which Jerusalem had, it is hoped, shall be turned to Tyre, and so now<\/I> that she is laid waste I shall be replenished.<\/I>” We do not find that the Tyrians had such a hatred and enmity to Jerusalem and the sanctuary as the Ammonites and Edomites had, or were so spiteful and mischievous to the Jews. They were men of business, and of large acquaintance and free conversation, and therefore were not so bigoted, and of such a persecuting spirit, as the narrow souls that lived retired and knew not the world. All their care was to get estates, and enlarge their trade, and they looked upon Jerusalem not as an enemy, but as a rival. Hiram, king of Tyre, was a good friend to David and Solomon, and we do not read of any quarrels the Jews had with the Tyrians; but Tyre promised herself that the fall of Jerusalem would be an advantage to her in respect of trade a commerce, that now she shall have Jerusalem’s customers, and the great men from all parts that used to come to Jerusalem for the accomplishing of themselves, and to spend their estates there, will now come to Tyre and spend them there; and whereas many, since the Chaldean army became so formidable in those parts, had retired into Jerusalem, and brought their estates thither for safety, as the Rechabites did, now they will come to Tyre, which, being in a manner surrounded with the sea, will be thought a place of greater strength than Jerusalem, and thus the prosperity of Tyre will rise out of the ruins of Jerusalem. Note, To be secretly pleased with the death or decay of others, when we are likely to get by it, with their fall when we may thrive upon it, is a sin that does most easily beset us, but is not thought to be such a bad thing, and so provoking to God, as really it is. We are apt to say, when those who stand in our light, in our way, are removed, when they break of fall into disgrace, “We shall be replenished<\/I> now that they are laid waste.<\/I>” But this comes from a selfish covetous principle, and a desire to be placed alone in the midst of the earth,<\/I> as if we grudged that any should live by us. This comes from a want of that love to our neighbour as to ourselves which the law of God so expressly requires, and from that inordinate love of the world as our happiness which the love of God so expressly forbids. And it is just with God to blast the designs and projects of those who thus contrive to raise themselves upon the ruins of others; and we see they are often disappointed.<\/P> II. The displeasure of God against them for it. The providence of God had done well for Tyrus. Tyrus was a pleasant and wealthy city, and might have continued so if she had, as she ought to have done, sympathized with Jerusalem in her calamities and sent her an address of condolence; but when, instead of that, she showed herself pleased with her neighbour’s fall, and perhaps sent an address of congratulation to the conquerors, then God says, Behold, I am against thee, O Tyrus!<\/I> v.<\/span> 3<\/span><\/U><\/I><\/span>. And let her not expect to prosper long if God be against her.<\/P> 1. God will bring formidable enemies upon her: Many nations shall come against thee,<\/I> an army made up of many nations, or one nation that shall be as strong as many. Those that have God against them may expect all the creatures against them; for what peace can those have with whom God is at war? They shall come pouring in as the waves of the sea,<\/I> one upon the neck of another, with an irresistible force. The person is named that shall bring this army upon them–Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings,<\/I> that had many kings tributaries to him and dependents on him, besides those that were his captives, Dan 2:37<\/span>; Dan 2:38<\/span>. He is that head of gold.<\/I> He shall come with a vast army, horses and chariots,<\/I> c., all land-forces. We do not find that he had any naval force, or any thing wherewith he might attack it by sea, which made the attempt the more difficult, as we find <i>ch.<\/span> xxix. 18<\/span><\/U><\/span>, where it is called a great service which he served against Tyrus.<\/I> He shall besiege it in form (v.<\/I><\/span> 8<\/span>), make a fort, and cast a mount,<\/I> and (v.<\/I><\/span> 9<\/span>) shall set engines of war against the walls.<\/I> His troops shall be so numerous as to raise a dust that shall cover the city, v.<\/I><\/span> 10<\/span>. They shall make a noise that shall even shake the walls;<\/I> and they shall shout at every attack, as soldiers do when they enter a city<\/I> that is broken up;<\/I> the horses shall prance with so much fury and violence that they shall even tread down the streets<\/I> though so ever well paved.<\/P> 2. They shall do terrible execution. (1.) The enemy shall make themselves masters of all their fortifications, shall destroy the walls<\/I> and break down the towers,<\/I> v.<\/span> 4<\/span><\/U><\/I><\/span>. For what walls are so strongly built as to be a fence against the judgments of God? Her strong garrisons shall go down to the ground,<\/I> v.<\/span> 11<\/span><\/U><\/I><\/span>. And the walls shall be broken down, v.<\/I><\/span> 12<\/span>. The city held out a long siege, but it was taken at last. (2.) A great deal of blood shall be shed: Her daughters who are in the field,<\/I> the cities upon the continent, which were subject to Tyre as the mother-city, the inhabitants of them shall be slain by the sword,<\/I> v.<\/span> 6<\/span><\/U><\/I><\/span>. The invaders begin with those that come first in their way. And (v.<\/I><\/span> 11<\/span>) he shall slay thy people with the sword;<\/I> not only the soldiers that are found in arms, but the burghers, shall be put to the sword,<\/I> the king of Babylon being highly incensed against them for holding out so long. (3.) The wealth of the city shall all become a spoil to the conqueror (v.<\/I><\/span> 12<\/span>): They shall make a prey of the merchandise.<\/I> It was in hope of the plunder that the city was set upon with so much vigour. See the vanity of riches, that they are kept for the owners to their hurt;<\/I> they entice and recompense thieves, and not only cease to benefit those who took pains for them and were duly entitled to them, but are made to serve their enemies, who are thereby put into a capacity of doing them so much the more mischief. (4.) The city itself shall be laid in ruins. All the pleasant houses<\/I> shall be destroyed<\/I> (v.<\/I><\/span> 12<\/span>), such as were pleasantly situated, beautified, and furnished, shall become a heap of rubbish. Let none please themselves too much in their pleasant houses, for they know not how soon they may see the desolation of them. Tyre shall be utterly ruined; the enemy shall not only pull down the houses, but shall carry away the stones and the timber,<\/I> and shall lay them in the midst of the water,<\/I> not to be recovered, or ever made use of again. Nay (v.<\/I><\/span> 4<\/span>), I will scrape her dust from her;<\/I> not only shall the loose dust be blown away, but the very ground it stands upon shall be torn up by the enraged enemy, carried off, and laid in the midst of the water,<\/I> v.<\/span> 12<\/span><\/U><\/I><\/span>. The foundation<\/I> is in the dust;<\/I> that dust shall be all taken away, and then the city must fall of course. When Jerusalem was destroyed it was ploughed like a field,<\/I> Mic. iii. 12<\/I><\/span>. But the destruction of Tyre is carried further than that; the very soil of it shall be scraped away, and it shall be made like the top of a rock<\/I> (Eze 26:4<\/span>; Eze 26:14<\/span>), pure rock that has no earth to cover it; it shall only be a place for the spreading of nets<\/I> (Eze 26:5<\/span>; Eze 26:14<\/span>); it shall serve fishermen to dry their nets upon and mend them. (5.) There shall be a full period to all its mirth and joy (v.<\/I><\/span> 13<\/span>): I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease.<\/I> Tyre had been a joyous city (Isa. xxiii. 7<\/span>); with her songs she had courted customers to deal with her in a way of trade. But now farewell all her profitable commerce and pleasant conversation; Tyre is no more a place either of business or of sport. Lastly,<\/I> It shall be built no more<\/I> (v.<\/I><\/span> 14<\/span>), not built any more as it had been, with such state and magnificence, nor built any more in the same place, within the sea, nor built any where for a long time; the present inhabitants shall be destroyed or dispersed, so that this Tyre shall be no more.<\/I> For God has spoken it<\/I> (Eze 26:5<\/span>; Eze 26:14<\/span>); and when what he has said is accomplished they shall know<\/I> thereby that he is the Lord,<\/I> and not a man that he should lie nor the son of man that he should repent.<\/I><\/P> <\/p>\n EZEKIEL – CHAPTER 26<\/strong><\/p>\n TYRE THREATENED WITH JUDGMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n Verses 1-6:<\/strong><\/p>\n Verse 1 established <\/strong>the time of this prophecy that came to Ezekiel from the Lord, as the eleventh year and first day of the year of Jerusalem’s captivity, 588 B.C. The month is not named, probably the fourth month, 2Ki 25:3<\/span>; Eze 3:15<\/span>.<\/p>\n Verse 2 charges <\/strong>that because Tyrus had gloated at the fall of Jerusalem, saying, “aha,” imagining and plotting to make herself wealthy, by entering the gates of Jerusalem, Psa 40:15<\/span>, Tyre had come to consider herself as the heiress of Jerusalem, Jer 25:22<\/span>; Jer 47:4<\/span>; Amo 1:9<\/span>; Zec 9:2<\/span>; 2Sa 24:7<\/span>; Jos 19:29<\/span>.<\/p>\n Verse 3 announces <\/strong>with strong emphasis that God is against Tyre (Tyrus), and that He will cause many nations to come up against her, as surely as the sea waves came up against her. She suffered the repeated waves of invasion from Nebuchadnezzar, Alexander, the crusaders, and the Saracens. She was finally over thrown in the 13th century A.D., but never fully recovered her former glory after her invasions from Babylon.<\/p>\n Verse 4 further <\/strong>describes her destruction as the Lord forewarns He would: 1) destroy her walls, 2) break down her towers, 3) scrape her dust from her, and 4) make her like the top of a sunburned and windblown rock. No vestige of her was to remain, except bare rocks.<\/p>\n Verses 5, 6 explain <\/strong>that Tyre was to become a place laid barren, that fishermen would spread their nets upon her rocks, and she should become a spoil or loot for the invading nations, v. 14; Isa 37:20<\/span>. Her daughters, her dependent villages nearby, were to share in her fate, by the sword, as bound up with her in her sins; She and they were judged to know that the Lord was God, Eze 27:32<\/span>; Eze 47:10<\/span>.<\/p>\n THE FALL OF TYRE. (Chap. 26)<\/p>\n 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 (Eze. 26:2-6<\/span>) there is a general threat of its destruction by a host of nations. In the second (Eze. 26:7-14<\/span>), the enemy is mentioned by name, and designated as a powerful one; and the conquest and destruction emanating from him are circumstantially described. In the third (Eze. 26:15-18<\/span>), the impression which this event would produce upon the inhabitants of the islands and coast-lands is depicted. And in the fourth (Eze. 26:19-21<\/span>), the threat is repeated in an energetic manner, and the prophecy is thereby rounded off.(Keil<\/em>).<\/p>\n Eze. 26:1<\/span>. In the eleventh year, in the first day of the month.<\/strong> The year is that of Jerusalems capture, B.C. 588. The month is not named. Probably it was the woeful fourth month (2Ki. 25:3<\/span>; Eze. 3:15<\/span>).<\/p>\n Eze. 26:2<\/span>. The gates of the people.<\/strong> The plural noun denotes one gate, as the verb is in the singular. Jerusalem was named the gate of the peoples on account of the many nations which would flow into it (Isa. 2:2<\/span>; Mic. 4:1<\/span>). Jerusalem was also to Tyre the gate of communication with the East. She is turned unto me.<\/strong> The rendering should be, it is turned unto me, i.e<\/em>., the gate of the peoples. Tyre considers herself the heiress of Jerusalem. The fall of the spiritual centre presents to view the enhanced importance of the secular.(Hengstenberg.)<\/em><\/p>\n Eze. 26:3<\/span>. As the sea causeth his waves.<\/strong> Tyre suffered from successive waves of invasion, chiefly those of Nebuchadnezzar and Alexander, the Crusaders and the Saracens. It was not finally overthrown till the thirteenth century, yet it never recovered from the blow which the King of Babylon inflicted upon it.<\/p>\n Eze. 26:4<\/span>. I will also scrape the dust from her.<\/strong> The destruction here referred to was that of the towers, walls, and other edifices, destroyed by the besiegers. Not a vestige was to remain. In place of splendid edifices and impregnable bulwarks nothing was to be seen but bare rocks, fit only for fishermen to spread their nets on.(Henderson.)<\/em><\/p>\n Eze. 26:5<\/span>. The spreading of nets.<\/strong> According to Dr. Robinson, the southern side of the rock of Tyre is still used by fishermen for this purpose.<\/p>\n Eze. 26:6<\/span>. Her daughters.<\/strong> Her daughter-cities, such as Gebal, Beyrout, &c. By the field we are to understand the open country, i.e<\/em>., the towns and villages dependent upon her and lying back from and along the coast. These were to be involved in the same catastrophe with the mother-city, their fate was bound up in hers.(Henderson.)<\/em><\/p>\n Eze. 26:8<\/span>. The buckler.<\/strong> Here obviously denotes the testudo,<\/em> or vaulted roof of large united shields employed by an attacking enemy for protection in siege-operations.Henderson<\/em>.<\/p>\n Eze. 26:11<\/span>. Strong garrisons.<\/strong> The proper meaning of the word is pillars, such as were erected in honour of the idol-gods. In the temple of Melkarth at Tyre, there were two famous pillars; one of topaz, the other of emerald.<\/p>\n Eze. 26:14<\/span>. Thou shalt be built no more.<\/strong> This was literally fulfilled with respect to the continental city. That part which lay on the island recovered itself after the lapse of seventy years, as predicted by the prophet Isaiah (Eze. 23:17-18<\/span>), and was in a very flourishing condition in the time of Alexander, by whom a causeway was constructed between the shore and it, by means of which he reached the city, and took it by storm after a siege of seven months.Henderson<\/em>.<\/p>\n Eze. 26:15<\/span>. The isles.<\/strong> This term is frequently used so as to embrace the coast lands of the Mediterranean Sea; we have therefore to understand it here as applied to the Phoenician colonies on the islands and coasts of that sea.(Keil<\/em>). Her numerous maritime colonies looked up to Tyre as the mother city. Even Carthage sent her a yearly offering.<\/p>\n Eze. 26:16<\/span>. The princes of the sea.<\/strong> These are not kings of the islands, but, according to Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
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