9<\/strong>. engines of war<\/em> ] or, engines of assault, i.e. battering engines. “Axes” is lit. swords, i.e. irons.<\/p>\n 10<\/strong> seq<\/em>. The assault and capture and sack of the city. The description is graphic in the extreme. When the conqueror enters the dust following the march of his cavalry shall cover the city; the walls shall shake at the rushing of his chariots in the streets; and the city shall be given up to slaughter and plunder.<\/p>\n Engines of war:<\/B> these were mighty engines, whatever form made of, and had their description here from the irresistible force wherewith they cast stones, and beat down all before them. <\/P> Axes; <\/B>whatever made of iron, and framed to demolish buildings: see Eze 16:39<\/span>. <\/P> <\/p>\n 9. engines of war<\/B>literally,”an apparatus for striking.<\/I>” “He shall applythe stroke<\/I> of the battering-ram against<\/I> thy walls.”HAVERNICK translates, “Hisenginery of destruction<\/I>“; literally, the “destruction<\/I>(not merely the stroke<\/I>) of his enginery.” <\/P> axes<\/B>literally,”swords.”<\/P><\/p>\n And he shall set engines of war against thy walls<\/strong>,…. Which some Jewish writers understand of crossbows, out of which stones or arrows were cast; but rather, according to Kimchi and Jarchi, they were warlike machines, invented to throw large stones against the walls of a place, to beat them down. Some think they were the same with the battering rams, used in sieges for the demolishing of walls; which was a late invention of those times, Ezekiel being the first writer, it is said, that makes mention of them:<\/p>\n and with his axes he shall break down thy towers<\/strong>; the word here used signifies anything made of iron, as swords, spears, hammers, and axes; the latter, being more proper to demolish towers, is here pitched on by our translators. The Targum renders it, “with stones of iron”; that is, with iron balls cast out of their engines.<\/p>\n (9) Engines of war.<\/strong>This is now generally understood to mean battering-rams, <\/em>although the word is a different one from that used in Eze. 4:2<\/span>; Eze. 21:22<\/span>. There are two words here which may form one compound word.<\/p>\n Axes <\/strong>in the original is swords. <\/em>It may either be used, the specific for the general, swords for all instruments of war; or it may be a poetic hyperbole, to express the power of the swords of Nebuchadnezzars armythey shall even break down the towers.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n Eze 26:9 And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.<\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n Ver. 9. He shall set engines of war.<\/strong> ] Helepoles inieciet.<\/em> A graphic description of a siege. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n And with his axes.<\/strong> ] Or, Battering rams, or slings. Heb., With his swords; Gr., With his lances, ferramentis mueronatis helepoleos. Vide<\/em> Am. Marcell, lib. xxiii.<\/p>\n engines of war = battering rams. Occurs only here. <\/p>\n axes = weapon <\/p>\n 2Ch 26:15 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Eze 26:4 – destroy<\/p>\n Eze 26:9. Engines of war were large instruments for the hurling of stones with the intent of battering down the wallB. The towers were the structures erected in the most important places and the axes were for the purpose of cutting them down.<\/p>\n And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers. 9. engines of war ] or, engines of assault, i.e. battering engines. “Axes” is lit. swords, i.e. irons. 10 seq. The assault and capture and sack of the city. 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