7<\/strong>. The correct spelling, Nebuchadrezzar (Eze 29:18<\/span>, Eze 30:10<\/span>), the name being Nab-Kudurri-usur, “Nebo protect the crown!” Schrader KAT<\/em>, p. 361 (on 2Ki 24:1<\/span>).<\/p>\n a king of kings<\/em> ] the<\/strong> king. Ezr 7:12<\/span>; Dan 2:37<\/span>. Already the king of Assyria had said, “Are not my princes altogether kings?” Isa 10:8<\/span>; Isa 36:4<\/span>.<\/p>\n and companies, and<\/em> ] and a company, and.<\/strong> LXX. reads: company of<\/em> much people (very many nations), which may be the meaning of the Heb.<\/p>\n 7 14<\/strong>. Jehovah’s instrument in Tyre’s destruction, Nebuchadnezzar<\/p>\n The description is graphic: the advance of the assailant with his great army ( Eze 26:7<\/em><\/span>); the siege with the powerful train of engines (8, 9); the assault, and capture and sack of the city (10 12), which is left a joyless ruin, a naked rock in the midst of the sea, never again to be built (13, 14).<\/p>\n The description of the siege is that of a town invested by land.<\/P> Eze 26:7<\/B><\/span><\/P> Nebuchadrezzar – <\/B>Jer 21:2<\/B><\/span> note.<\/P> Eze 26:8<\/B><\/span><\/P> Lift up the buckler – <\/B>i. e., set a wall of shields, under cover of which the walls could be approached.<\/P> Eze 26:9<\/B><\/span><\/P> Engines of war – <\/B>Or, his battering ram. axes swords. They who would break flown the towers, rush on with their swords to slay the defenders.<\/P> Eze 26:11<\/B><\/span><\/P> Garrisons – <\/B>pillars, on which stood statues of some protecting god. Compare 2Ki 10:26<\/span>.<\/P> Eze 26:14<\/B><\/span><\/P> The siege had been on land, but the victory was to be completed by the subjection of the island-citadel.<\/P> <\/p>\n Eze 26:7-14<\/span><\/p>\n Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar King of Babylon.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n The prophecy against Tyre<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. <\/strong>She abused the privilege of civilisation. Tyre was the most cultivated state of antiquity, invented letters, weights and measures, money, arithmetic, the art of keeping accounts. She made her painting and sculpture and architecture and music and letters, all her skill and learning and refinement, instruments of corruption.<\/p>\n 2. <\/strong>Tyre abused also the privilege of commerce. The Tyrians were a nation of merchants. But there are two classes of merchants. There are those who aim to develop new countries, to introduce new crops and arts and industries, to elevate races, to make commerce the servant of God. There are others who make everything bend to gain. A prince or an entire people may thus abuse the privilege of commerce. So Tyre abused her privilege.<\/p>\n 3. <\/strong>She abused the privilege of her intimate connection with the Jewish people. In the enjoyment of this distinction she stood alone. Tyre was a bulwark of Israel, covering Zion as the wing of the cherub covered the altar. In the unscrupulousness of her lust of empire and gain she broke the brotherly covenant, and when Jerusalem fell she rejoiced in her overthrow. To her unscrupulousness nothing was too sacred to be turned to profit.<\/p>\n 1. <\/strong>The fate of Tyre is a warning to those engaged in traffic. Beware of the iniquity of traffic, of the pride, the luxury, the unscrupulousness, the atheism.<\/p>\n 2. <\/strong>The fate of Tyre exalts the Word of God. If we look upon its ruins simply as a record of fulfilled prophecy, they force the conviction, This is the accomplishment of the Word of God, the one thing on earth amid the vast mutations of time, as passes unceasingly the glory of the world, which is unchangeable. (Sermons by Monday Club.<\/em>)<\/p>\n Verse 7<\/span>. Nebuchadrezzar – king of kings<\/B><\/I>] An ancient title among those proud Asiatic despots [Arabic] shahinshah<\/I> and padshah<\/I>, titles still in use.<\/P> <\/p>\n I will bring:<\/B> see Eze 23:46<\/span>. <\/P> A king of kings; <\/B>so he styled himself, according to the vaunting manner of those countries, and indeed, by the right of conquest, he was king of kings, having many tributary kings under him, and many captive kings with him in Babylon, 2Ki 18:28<\/span>; Jer 52:32<\/span>. From the north; so was Babylon accounted to lie, as observed, Eze 1:4<\/span>, though it did not lie full north, but had some points of the north from Tyre. With horses; those Eastern kings had store of horses, and used many in their wars: see Eze 26:11<\/span>. <\/P> With chariots:<\/B> see Eze 23:24<\/span>. <\/P> With horsemen:<\/B> see Eze 23:12<\/span>. And companies; an assembly of all sorts, from all parts of the large kingdom of Babylon. <\/P> And much people; <\/B>a mighty army for fighting, and mighty train of hangers-on, who were ready enough to do mischief to the country, though not very fit to assist the army; if need required, these would sweep all before them wherever they came. <\/P> <\/p>\n 7. from the north<\/B>the originallocality of the Chaldeans; also, the direction by which they enteredPalestine, taking the route of Riblah and Hamath on the Orontes, inpreference to that across the desert between Babylon and Judea. <\/P> king of kings<\/B>so calledbecause of the many kings who owned allegiance to him (2Ki18:28<\/span>). God had delegated to him the universal earth-empire whichis His (Da 2:47<\/span>). The Son ofGod alone has the right and title inherently, and shall assume itwhen the world kings shall have been fully proved as abusers of thetrust (1Ti 6:15<\/span>; Rev 17:12-14<\/span>;Rev 19:15<\/span>; Rev 19:16<\/span>).Ezekiel’s prophecy was not based on conjecture from the past, forShalmaneser, with all the might of the Assyrian empire, had failed inhis siege of Tyre. Yet Nebuchadnezzar was to succeed. JOSEPHUStells us that Nebuchadnezzar began the siege in the seventh year ofIthobal’s reign, king of Tyre.<\/P><\/p>\n For thus saith the Lord God<\/strong>,…. What follows; and declares by name the person that should be the instrument of this ruin, and the manner in which it should be brought about:<\/p>\n I will bring upon Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon<\/strong>; a prince whose name was terrible, having conquered many nations: the Lord is said to bring him against Tyre, because, he inclined his heart to steer his course this way; encouraged him to this work; led and protected his army; and, at last, gave him success: it held out thirteen years against him, and then was taken. The siege began, according to Mr. Whiston f, A.M. 3650 or before Christ 586; and was taken A.M. 3663 or before Christ 573; according to Bishop Usher, g, it began A.M. 3419 or before Christ 585; and was taken A.M. 3432 or before Christ 572. The Phoenician historians make mention of the siege of Tyre by Nebuchadnezzar; and Berosus speaks of his subduing the whole country of Phoenicia, in which Tyre was; with whom agree Philostratus and Megasthenes h:<\/p>\n a king of kings from the north<\/strong>; who had many kings tributaries to him; the metropolis of whose kingdom lay somewhat, though not fully, north to Tyre:<\/p>\n with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and much people<\/strong>: with a very numerous army, consisting of a large cavalry; horses being very numerous in the countries subject to him; and which he mounted his men on, both for their more easy travelling, and for their better fighting, and for the terror of their enemies.<\/p>\n f Chronological Tables, cent. 10. g Annales Vet. Test. A. M. 3419, 3432. h Apud Joseph. adv. Apien. l. 1. c. 19, 20, 21.<\/p>\n HUMAN AGENTS EMPLOYED OF THE LORD<\/strong><\/p>\n Verse 7-14:<\/strong><\/p>\n Verses 7, 8 describe <\/strong>how that the Lord would bring Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon down from the northern part of Lebanon with horses, horsemen, chariots and armed companies upon Tyrus, Ezr 7:12<\/span>; Dan 2:37<\/span>. He would make a fort against Tyrus, build up a mount of dirt to go over the walls, and slay her suburban daughters who sought to escape, while holding his buckler of defense safely, as Tyrus was desolated; See also Isa 10:8<\/span>; Hos 8:10<\/span>; 2Sa 20:16<\/span>.<\/p>\n Verses 9, 10 further <\/strong>explain that Nebuchadnezzar’s armed men would cause their horses’ hoofs to tear up the streets, tear down the strong garrisons or pillars built in honor of their idol gods, and slay the inhabitants with the sword. Then they would methodically loot the houses and businesses of their riches, for their own prey. Destruction of the walls of the city, residences, and even the timber and stones was to be complete, to the extent that they were to be thrown into the waters of the Mediterranean Sea, beside which she had stood, 2Ch 32:27<\/span>; 2Ch 36:10<\/span>; Isa 32:12<\/span>; Jer 25:34<\/span>.<\/p>\n Verse 13 asserts <\/strong>that the Lord would cause the noise of the songs of Tyre to cease, take away her joy, and cause her famed harps to be heard no more in the city, forever, as also indicated, Isa 14:11<\/span>; Isa 23:16<\/span>; Isa 24:8<\/span>; Jer 7:34<\/span>; Jer 16:9<\/span>; Jer 25:10<\/span>; Rev 18:22<\/span>.<\/p>\n Verse 14 restates <\/strong>the desolation of Tyre that was so complete that the only thing left in her should be bare, sun-bleached and windblown rocks on which fishermen would spread their nets, v. 5. There on the southern continental side of the barren rock of Tyre, the fishermen still spread their nets. For it was irrevocably decreed and declared by Divine fiat that Tyre should be built no more. The island off Tyre was rebuilt after a lapse of 70 years and flourished until the time of Alexander the Great, who later conquered it by building a causeway and took it by storm, after a siege of seven months, Isa 23:17-18<\/span>.<\/p>\n B. The Agents of Destruction 26:714<\/p>\n TRANSLATION<\/strong><\/p>\n (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 and chariots, horsemen, a company, even much people. (8) He shall slay with the sword your daughters in the field; and be shall make movable towers against you, and cast up a mound against you, and raise up shields against you. (9) And he shall set his battering rams against your walls, and your towers he shall break down by his axes. (10) Because of the multitude of his horses, their dust shall cover you; at the noise of his horsemen, wheels, and chariots your walls shall shake, when he enters into your gates as men would enter a city through a breach. (11) With the hoofs of his horses he shall tread down all your streets; he shall slay your people with the sword, and the pillars of your strength shall go down to the ground. (12) And they shall make spoil of your wealth, and confiscate your merchandise; and they shall break down your walls, and tear down your delightful houses; and they shall put your stones, your timber and your dust in the midst of the water. (13) And I will cause the noise of your songs to cease, and the sound of your harps shall be heard no more. (14) And I will make you a bare rock; you shall become a place for the spreading of nets, you shall be built no more; for I the LORD have spoken (oracle of the Lord GOD).<\/p>\n COMMENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n The generalized predictions regarding the fate of Tyre are amplified in Eze. 26:7-14<\/span>. Particular attention is devoted to the role of Nebuchadnezzar. This constitutes the sixth distinct prediction in the Tyre prophecy.<\/p>\n 6. Prediction Six Nebuchadnezzar[383] will destroy the mainland city of Tyre.<\/p>\n [383] The name is spelled two ways in the Bible (1) Nebuchadnezzar and (2) Nebuchadrezzar. The latter spelling, which is closer to the actual Babylonian spelling, is used here in the Hebrew text<\/p>\n The Chaldean king is here called king of kings because he had dominion over dozens of vassal kingdoms (cf. Dan. 2:37<\/span>; Ezr. 7:12<\/span>). Nebuchadnezzar would approach Tyre from the north around the hump of the Fertile Crescent. Armed to the teeth, Nebuchadnezzars cavalry, chariotry and innumerable infantry would approach Tyre (Eze. 26:7<\/span>), First, the mainland towns and villages Tyres daughters would fall. The attack on the island fortress was to follow the standard siege tactics of that day. Forts or siege towers would be erected to allow the attacking soldiers to be elevated to the level of the wall where they could more easily engage the defenders. Mounds of earth and rubble were heaped up about the city to accomplish the same purpose. Large shields linked together provided protection for the besiegers (Eze. 26:8<\/span>). Battering rams were used to attempt to penetrate the stone walls at which time axe-like swords would be used to destroy other fortifications (Eze. 26:9<\/span>).<\/p>\n In hyperbolic language typical of such battle scenes, Ezekiel paints the picture of the coming conqueror. Clouds of dust generated by the approach of innumerable horses would billow up over the walls. The walls of the city would seem to shake from the pounding hoofs and speeding chariot wheels. The hostile conqueror would enter into the gates of the trembling city as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach, i.e., without resistance (Eze. 26:10<\/span>).<\/p>\n Within the captured city a merciless slaughter would take place. Cavalry units would be dispatched down every street to slay all who might be found there. The sacred and symbolic pillars which had been erected in honor of the national god Melquart[384] would come crashing to the ground (Eze. 26:11<\/span>).<\/p>\n [384] Herodotus makes mention of two such pillars in the city of Tyre.<\/p>\n The destruction of Tyre was not to be accomplished by Nebuchadnezzar alone. Verse three already has alluded to the many nations which would be involved. This suggests that the destruction of Tyre would be spread over the centuries. Nebuchadnezzar did besiege Tyre, and his siege lasted thirteen years (587574 B.C.).[385] However, while he appears to have conquered the mainland suburbs of Tyre, he was never able to conquer the island fortress. Ezekiel was very much aware that Nebuchadnezzar would not be able to capture the entire city (Eze. 29:17-20<\/span>), and for this reason God would give to him the land of Egypt. Nonetheless, the long struggle exhausted the power and resources of Tyre, and its capitulation in 574 B.C. meant the end of Phoenician national life.[386] During the Persian period Tyre lost its dominating position on the coast to Sidon. She also lost her most important trading colonies. However, Tyre continued to survive as a trading and shipping center throughout the Persian period.<\/p>\n [385] Josephus, Antiquities X. 11,I; Against Apion 1.21. No contemporary record of this siege remains.<\/p>\n [386] Kapelrud, IDB, R-Z, p. 723.<\/p>\n An important shift in pronouns from he to they occurs in Eze. 26:12<\/span>. This is a point not to be overlooked. At this point the prophet begins to describe a second stage of Tyres destruction. The first half of Eze. 26:12<\/span> amplifies a bit prediction four mentioned above; the latter half of the verse expands on prediction two. Eze. 26:14<\/span> a combines and repeats predictions two and three. The wealth of Tyre would fall into the hands of the enemy. The walls and luxurious houses would be torn down. The stone, timber and even the dust of the place would be pushed into the water of the Mediterranean Sea (Eze. 26:12<\/span>). The joyous sounds of that once vibrant city would be silenced (Eze. 26:13<\/span>). The island fortress would be nothing but a barren rock upon which fishermen would spread their nets.<\/p>\n The allusion in Eze. 26:12-14<\/span> a is likely to the armies of Alexander the Great. The Macedonia conqueror attacked the city in 332 B.C. He rather easily conquered the mainland city as Nebuchadnezzar had done 250 years before. Alexander utterly demolished the place. Then by means of an imaginative strategy and an amazing engineering feat Alexander accomplished what Nebuchadnezzar had failed to accomplish; he conquered the island fortress. Using the debris from the mainland city he constructed a causeway half a mile long and two hundred feet wide across the straits. For a time the Tyrians resisted heroically, employing fire ships to damage the construction work and flinging pots of burning naphtha, sulphur and red-hot sand by means of catapults. Alexander was forced to quickly assemble a fleet of over three hundred ships to protect the construction crews and blockade the city. After about seven months the young general grew impatient with the entire operation. He finally ordered floating batteries to be constructed upon which rams were mounted. His naval vessels were able thereby to force their way into the two island harbors. His troops quickly scaled the walls and captured the city. Eight thousand citizens of Tyre were slaughtered, thirty thousand were sold into slavery, and later on another occasion two thousand were hanged.[387] The mole which the armies of Alexander built partly from houses and monuments torn down on the mainland, still remains connecting what formerly was an island to the mainland.<\/p>\n [387] Fuller, EB, XXII, 653.<\/p>\n 7. Prediction Seven Tyre would never be rebuilt (Eze. 26:14<\/span> b), Freshwater springs at the site of mainland Tyre would make the spot an ideal site for a modern city. But since the destruction by Alexander the mainland Tyre has never been rebuilt. Several successive cities were built on the site of what formerly was the island fortress of Tyre. Since the days of Alexander this island has become a man-made peninsula. After the Phoenician city of Tyre was conquered by the Moslems it was never rebuilt. The Phoenicians disappeared from history. The insignificant villages built by the Moslems on the site can in no wise be equated with Phoenician Tyre any more than a modern American city could be considered the resurrection of some ancient Indian village which might have once occupied the site. A further consideration is that a city in Bible days was not considered to be built (or rebuilt) until it had walls. A wall-less fishing village could not be considered a resurrection of ancient Tyre.[388]<\/p>\n [388] Hall (WBC, p. 437) feels the prophecy means only that subsequent cities built on the site would lack the greatness of Phoenician Tyre.<\/p>\n (7) Nebuchadrezzar.<\/strong>So the name is very often written by Jeremiah and a few times by Ezekiel. It is, perhaps, a closer representation of the Nabu-kudurriuzur <\/em>of the Babylonian cylinders than the form finally adopted by the Hebrews of Nebuchadnezzar.<\/p>\n A king of kings, from the north.<\/strong>He is called a king of kings because of the many countries subject to his sway, whose kings were his vassals; and he is described as from the north, because, as often before said, it was from this direction that his armies must approach Tyre, although Babylon itself was in actual latitude to the south of Tyre.<\/p>\n 7<\/strong>. <\/strong> I will bring upon Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar <\/strong> See Dan 2:37<\/span>, and Introduction to Daniel, III, 3.<\/p>\n ‘For thus says the Lord Yahweh, “I will bring on Tyre Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, king of kings (supreme king), from the north, with horses and with chariots, and with horsemen, and a company and much people.”.’<\/p>\n Nebuchadrezzar may have been the ‘king of kings’, but the idea is that the supreme king does Yahweh’s bidding. This variation in name from Nebuchadnezzar is in fact closer to the Babylonian name Nabu-kudurri-usur, while Nebuchadnezzar is closer to the Greek form Nabochodonosor and is a variant form. His early career is described in the Babylonian records known as ‘the Babylonian Chronicle’ which give us valuable information for dating various events.<\/p>\n So Yahweh would bring the supreme king against Tyre with a huge well-armed army.<\/p>\n The Prophecy Concerning Nebuchadnezzar’s Coming<\/p>\n v. 7. For thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, a king of kings,<\/strong> a ruler excelling in power, from the north,<\/strong> for it was from that side that the attack would naturally be made, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and much people,<\/strong> both infantry and cavalry being strongly represented in his armies of conquest. <\/p>\n v. 8. He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field,<\/strong> quickly subduing the smaller cities tributary to Tyre; and he shall make a fort against thee,<\/strong> battering-towers from which the attacking troops could throw missiles into a besieged city, and cast a mount against thee,<\/strong> breast-works behind which trenches could be constructed, and lift up the buckler against thee,<\/strong> setting the infantry in array for an attack upon the city, one section of which was built on the mainland. <\/p>\n v. 9. And he shall set engines of war against thy walls,<\/strong> literally, “wall-breakers,” that is, battering-rams. and with his axes he shall break down thy towers,<\/strong> the swords of the invaders killing the soldiers on the towers and leaving the towers of the walls unmanned, so that they could easily be torn down by the enemy. <\/p>\n v. 10. By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee,<\/strong> a strong picture to emphasize the immense mass of horses in the invader’s army; thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen,<\/strong> as they move forward, galloping to the attack, and of the wheels and of the chariots when he shall enter into thy gates,<\/strong> after a victorious onslaught, as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach,<\/strong> which can no longer hold out in the siege. <\/p>\n v. 11. With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy streets,<\/strong> tramping the pavement to pieces; he shall slay thy people by the sword, and thy strong garrisons shall go down to the ground,<\/strong> literally, “and the pillars of thy strength shall sink to the ground,” probably a reference to two monuments in the temple of Hercules and expressing the proud boast of the citizens that they could not be conquered. <\/p>\n v. 12. And they shall make a spoil of thy riches,<\/strong> the great treasures stored up in this great commercial city, and make a prey of thy merchandise,<\/strong> taking it away as a welcome booty; and they shall break down thy walls and destroy thy pleasant houses,<\/strong> the proud palaces of the merchants, Cf Isa 23:13<\/span>; and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water,<\/strong> thus razing the city down to the very rock on which it was built. <\/p>\n v. 13. And I will cause the noise of thy songs,<\/strong> shouted in the proud consciousness of prosperity, to cease; and the sound of thy harps,<\/strong> as expressing the joyousness of the inhabitants, shall be no more heard,<\/strong> for all joy would give way to sorrow and grief. <\/p>\n v. 14. And I will make thee like the top of a rock,<\/strong> utterly bare, with not even a heap of ruins to mark the spot; thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon,<\/strong> the draw-nets of fishermen being stretched out there to dry. Thou shalt be built no more; for I, the Lord, have spoken it, saith the Lord God. <\/strong> Throughout the entire passage the overwhelming strength of the invading host is vividly pictured; for, as the instruments of Jehovah in carrying out His punishment, no one was able to withstand them. <\/p>\n Eze 26:7<\/span><\/em><\/strong>. <\/strong>Nebuchadrezzar, <\/em><\/strong>&c.<\/strong> “This is the title which these princes shall assume, as well as their successors, the kings of Persia.” <\/p>\n 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 pleased to make use of this man, as he doth in numberless instances besides, as a suitable instrument for the accomplishing of his purpose. More than probable, yea, almost certain it may be said, Nebuchadrezzar had no consciousness who it was that led him on, and whose instrument he was, for humbling the Lord’s people, and correcting other nations. Reader! it is very blessed, and very profitable to be setting the Lord always before us, and never to lose sight of that great truth: that He it is that doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth, and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, what doest thou? Dan 4:35<\/span> .<\/p>\n Eze 26:7 For thus saith the Lord GOD; 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.<\/p>\n Ver. 7. Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus Nebuchadnezzar.<\/strong> ] A name as dreadful then as was at any time the name of the great Turk: a man as famous for his valour and victories as ever was Hercules, saith Megasthenes in Josephus, a<\/em> and such as whom we may well call, as Orosius doth Alexander, magnum miseriarum gurgitem, et totius Orientis atrocissimum turbinem,<\/em> The great troubleworld. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n a<\/em> Antiq., <\/em> lib. x. cap. 13.<\/p>\n NASB (UPDATED) TEXT: Eze 26:7-14<\/p>\n 7For thus says the Lord GOD, Behold, I will bring upon Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses, chariots, cavalry and a great army. 8He will slay your daughters on the mainland with the sword; and he will make siege walls against you, cast up a ramp against you and raise up a large shield against you. 9The blow of his battering rams he will direct against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers. 10Because of the multitude of his horses, the dust raised by them will cover you; your walls will shake at the noise of cavalry and wagons and chariots when he enters your gates as men enter a city that is breached. 11With the hoofs of his horses he will trample all your streets. He will slay your people with the sword; and your strong pillars will come down to the ground. 12Also they will make a spoil of your riches and a prey of your merchandise, break down your walls and destroy your pleasant houses, and throw your stones and your timbers and your debris into the water. 13So I will silence the sound of your songs, and the sound of your harps will be heard no more. 14I will make you a bare rock; you will be a place for the spreading of nets. You will be built no more, for I the LORD have spoken, declares the Lord GOD.<\/p>\n Eze 26:7 from the north This compass direction became a proverb (e.g., Jer 4:6; Jer 6:1; Jer 6:22; Jer 10:22; Jer 13:20; Jer 15:12; Jer 46:20; Jer 46:24) for evil because this was the only land route for invasion from the Fertile Crescent (i.e., Assyria in Isa 14:31; Babylon in Jer 1:13-15).<\/p>\n Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon The name is spelled differently (BDB 613) here than in most places in the OT (Nebuchadrezzar). There is an r instead of an n in the closing part of the name. This seems to relate to the Babylonian’s spelling of this king’s name Nabu-kudurri-usur, which means Nabu, protect my boundaries or Nabo, protect my lands. See Special Topic: Kings of Mesopotamia <\/p>\n kings of kings This title reflects the conquests of the Neo-Babylon Empire under Nebuchadnezzar II (cf. Jer 27:6-7; Dan 2:37). It was also later used of Artaxerxes, the Persian king in Ezr 7:12. It came to be a title for the Messiah (cf. 1Ti 6:15; Rev 19:16). A similar title was used of YHWH in Deu 10:17 and I Enoch Eze 9:4. It is a phrase that emphasizes sovereignty!<\/p>\n a great army The Babylonian army grew by including the defeated armies into their ranks as mercenaries.<\/p>\n Eze 26:8 siege walls against you, cast up a mound This may refer to two separate siege tactics or just to one (cf. 2Sa 20:15; 2Ki 19:32; Isa 37:33; Jer 6:6; Eze 4:2; Eze 17:17; Eze 21:22; Eze 26:8). These ramps allowed soldiers and siege machines (i.e., battering ram, BDB 867) to approach the stone walls of a city in order to loosen the stones and cause the wall to fall.<\/p>\n raise up a large shield against you This is a technical term (BDB 857, cf. 1Ki 10:16) for what was known as the roof, which was raised as a shield to protect the attacking soldiers from being pelted by stones from the walls of citadels. We know that Nebuchadnezzar began this siege in 587 B.C., and it lasted until 574 B.C. Nebuchadnezzar never defeated the main citadel (cf. Eze 29:18), but it apparently surrendered. There is no record of the city’s capture in the Babylonian chronicles.<\/p>\n Eze 26:9 Nebuchadnezzar’s siege machines never reached the island citadel of Tyre, but Alexander’s did in 332 B.C.<\/p>\n blow of his battering rams This is a rare term (BDB 562 II). In Num 34:11 it is translated border (KB 568 or to run along beside), but that meaning does not fit this text in Ezekiel.<\/p>\n Eze 26:11-12 There is a switch from the PRONOUN he (Eze 26:11) to they (Eze 26:12) in these verses. Some have assumed a theological significance that this refers to subsequent besiegers of Tyre, like Alexander the Great, to whom the city fell in 332 B.C. See Gleason L. Archer, Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties, pp. 276-278.<\/p>\n Eze 26:11 Some would read these words and assert that the Bible is in error at this point. We must remember that prophecy is hyperbolic literary genre. One book that has really helped me in my understanding of both prophecy and apocalyptic literature is D. Brent Sandy, Plowshares and Pruning Hooks: Rethinking the Language of Biblical Prophecy and Apocalyptic.<\/p>\n your strong pillars From the historian, Heroditus (II. 44), we understand there were two famous obelisks in the city of Tyre. One was gold and the other was emerald and they were dedicated to the god Melqart (King of the City), probably the Ba’al brought into Israel by Jezebel (cf. 1Ki 16:21-32).<\/p>\n Eze 26:13 This is an idiomatic way of asserting their society will cease (i.e., Isa 23:16; Isa 24:8-9). Tyre may have been renowned for her musicians (cf. Isa 23:16).<\/p>\n Eze 26:14 a place for the spreading of nets The citadel will be so completely destroyed that all it will be good for is drying fishermen’s nets (cf. Eze 26:5). This was historically fulfilled in Alexander’s conquest.<\/p>\n Nebuchadrezzar. Occurs thus spelled four times in this book (here; Eze 29:18, Eze 29:19; and Eze 30:10). See note on Dan 1:1. <\/p>\n companies = a gathered host. <\/p>\n Eze 26:7-14<\/p>\n Eze 26:7-14<\/p>\n “For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: For behold I will bring upon Tyre Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and a company, and much people. He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field; and he shall make forts against thee, and cast up a mound against thee, and raise up the buckler against thee. And he shall set his battering engines against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers. 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 wagons, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach. With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy streets; he shall slay thy people with the sword; and the pillars of thy strength shall go down to the ground. 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 waters. And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard. And I will make thee a bare rock: thou shalt be a place for the spreading of nets; thou shalt be built no more: for I Jehovah have spoken it, saith the Lord Jehovah.”<\/p>\n NEBUCHADNEZZAR NAMED AS THE DESTROYER<\/p>\n “He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field.” (Eze 26:8). “These daughters were the suburbs and dependences on the mainland. In these supporting villages were located many of those “pleasant houses,” riches, and merchandise, which fell to the operations of Nebuchadnezzar. As for the promise that these should never more be rebuilt, this was certainly true of all that was scraped into the sea for the purpose of building the mole out to the walls of the citadel on the island.<\/p>\n “A roof of shields …” (Eze 26:8). This is called “the buckler” in our version. “It refers to what the Romans called a `testudo’. It was a portable light roof covered with military shields, under the protection of which soldiers could deploy their battering rams against an enemy wall.<\/p>\n “Thy pillars shall be brought down to the ground …” (Eze 26:11). “This is probably reference to the pillars associated with the temple of Melkart, the pagan god worshipped in Tyre. Not even he could save the city.” These pillars were described by Herodotus. “One was of opal, the other of emerald; they had been erected in honor of the god Melkarth (a variable spelling).<\/p>\n “Thou shalt be built no more …” (Eze 26:14) This was literally fulfilled as regards the continental city of Tyre. “That part of the city that lay on the rocky island, recovered after a lapse of seventy years, as predicted by the prophet Isaiah (Isa 23:17-18).<\/p>\n I will: Eze 26:3, Eze 28:7, Eze 29:18-20, Eze 30:10, Eze 30:11, Eze 32:11, Eze 32:12, Jer 25:9, Jer 25:22, Jer 27:3-6 <\/p>\n a king: Eze 17:14, Ezr 7:12, Isa 10:8, Jer 52:32, Dan 2:37, Dan 2:47, Hos 8:10 <\/p>\n with horses: Eze 26:10, Eze 26:11, Eze 23:24, Jer 4:13, Jer 6:23, Nah 2:3, Nah 2:4, Nah 3:2, Nah 3:3 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: 1Ki 20:1 – Thirty and two 2Ki 25:1 – Nebuchadnezzar Isa 23:13 – and he Jer 4:7 – destroyer Jer 6:1 – evil<\/p>\n Eze 26:7. This verse specifically predicts the attack by Nebuchadnezzar on the city of Tyre. For the historical fulfillment of this prediction, see the long quotation In connection with verses 4, 5. From the north is explained by the historical note offered in connection with Isa 14:31 in volume 3 of this Commentary,<\/p>\n Eze 26:7-11. 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 thirteen years, when Ithobal was king there, and began the siege in the seventh year of Ithobals reign, and that he subdued Syria and all Phenicia. It further appears from the Phenician Annals, quoted by the same historian, that the Tyrians received their kings afterward from Babylon. These Annals too, as Dr. Prideaux hath clearly shown, agree exactly with Ezekiels account of the time and year wherein the city was taken. Bishop Newton. Nebuchadnezzar is here called king of kings, because he had several other kings under him as his vassals and tributaries. With horses and with chariots, &c. With a vast army, but all land forces; for we do not find that he had any naval force, or any means of attacking the place by sea, which made his undertaking the more difficult. He shall make a fort against thee, &c. The various operations and actions of a siege are here set forth, all which it is said Nebuchadnezzar should employ against Tyre. And in a siege of so long continuance as thirteen years, undoubtedly every method and art of annoying and injuring the city was made use of. By reason of the abundance of horses, &c. This is a lively description of the tumult and desolation that attend a conquering army making themselves masters of a great city. When he shall enter into thy gates, as men enter, &c. Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, had besieged Tyre, but without success: the Tyrians with a few ships had beaten his large fleet; (Josephuss Antiq.;) but yet, it is here foretold, Nebuchadnezzar should prevail. Thy strong garrisons Or, thy strong fortresses, or, the fortresses of thy strength, as rather signifies; shall go down to the ground Shall be entirely demolished, The LXX., however, render the clause, , He shall bring down the station of thy strength, or, thy strong (that is, military) station to the ground. The Vulgate understands the expression of their images, or tutelary gods, rendering the words, Et statu nobiles in terram corruent, Thy famous statues shall fall to the ground.<\/p>\n The first "wave" of judgment 26:7-14<\/span><\/p>\n In an explanatory prophecy about Tyre’s destruction, the Lord promised to send Nebuchadnezzar as an invader from the north (cf. 2Ki 25:21; Jer 52:9). This is the first time Ezekiel identified the agent of God’s coming judgment on Tyre by name. He was a "king of kings" in that many rulers were subject to him (cf. Dan 2:37). This would be the first "wave" of conquest, and the Lord described it more fully than the later ones. Nebuchadnezzar would come against Tyre with a great army, besiege the city, break down its walls, and slay many of the Tyrians. After defeating Jerusalem in 586 B.C., Nebuchadnezzar proceeded north and attacked Tyre and its neighboring towns for thirteen years, beginning that same year.<\/p>\n For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and much people. 7. The correct spelling, Nebuchadrezzar (Eze 29:18, Eze 30:10), the name being Nab-Kudurri-usur, “Nebo protect the crown!” Schrader KAT, … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 26:7”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
I. <\/strong>What were the grounds of her judgment. She was judged for her sins.<\/p>\n
II. <\/strong>The delay of the judgment. The method of God, sometimes, is swift retribution, as with Sodom and Gomorrah, sometimes slow, as with Tyre. She was long in filling her measure of guilt. Over two hundred years before the siege of Nebuchadnezzar, Joel prophesied against her. A few years later Amos took up the prophecy, then Isaiah in 712 B.C., Ezekiel in 590, Zechariah in 487. Yet the judgment delayed. She suffered calamities, but always rose above them. The prophecies were not literally fulfilled. The Christian era came in. Tyre still stood; Shalmaneser had besieged it; Nebuchadnezzar had invested it by sea and land for thirteen years, and conquered it; Alexander the Great, in 332 B.C., after a frightful siege of six months, had stormed, captured, and destroyed it, massacring thousands of its inhabitants, and selling thirty thousand into slavery. But after each disaster it had arisen anew, In the days of Jerome, in the fifth century, it was still standing, e city powerful and opulent. It was still flourishing eight hundred years later, in the times of the Crusades. It was the seat of a Christian bishopric. It had stood over twenty-five hundred years. The prophecies against it were nearly two thousand years old. Was the Bible, then, which had proved true in prophecies against Egypt and Nineveh, and Edom and Judah, to be found at fault here?<\/p>\n
III. <\/strong>The literal fulfilment of judgment. In the year 1291 the Sultan of Egypt laid siege to the strong city of Ptolemais or Acre. Terror spread through the crusaders kingdom. Tyre shared it. Capture meant massacre and slavery. Ptolemais fell on the very day on which the evil news reached Tyre. At vespers the people in mass forsook their city. In panic and haste they embarked upon their galleys, and went out never to return. The Mahometan came. He overthrew the city. He choked one of the matchless harbours with the ruins. He cast into the sea, statues and columns and the huge stones of warehouses and palaces. He set the last fire to her splendour. He scraped the rock. Standing amid the ruins we may see the dust and ashes of her conflagration, the broken marble columns beneath the sea and scattered upon the shore, the fishers nets spread upon the rock, and feel, with every traveller who thus stands, that the last prophecy concerning her must also prove true, That shalt be built no more.<\/p>\nFuente: Biblical Illustrator Edited by Joseph S. Exell<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible <\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: College Press Bible Study Textbook Series<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: The Popular Commentary on the Bible by Kretzmann<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: You Can Understand the Bible: Study Guide Commentary Series by Bob Utley<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Old and New Testaments Restoration Commentary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
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