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Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 26:15-21

The effect of the fall of Tyre.Ezekiel 26:16Clothe themselves with trembling - Mourners change their bright robes for sad garments.Ezekiel 26:17Of 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 26:20Compare 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-power. So, in the Book of... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 26:15-18

Ezekiel 26:15-18. Shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall? All those that dwell upon the sea-coast near thee shall be thrown into a consternation at the news of thy being taken and destroyed. All the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones All the princes and rich merchants (or the merchants who are as princes, as Isaiah speaks) of Zidon, Carthage, and other maritime cities that maintained a trade with Tyre, and got great wealth by that means, shall express a deep... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 26:19-21

Ezekiel 26:19-21. Thus saith the Lord, When I shall make thee a desolate city When I shall fulfil these predictions, and make thee what I now threaten to make thee; like the cities that are not inhabited Whose walls are broken down, and whose streets are all solitary. When I shall bring up the deep upon thee This may be understood either figuratively of Nebuchadnezzar’s army, or literally of the sea overflowing and covering a great part of the ancient seat of the city, in consequence... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 26:1-21

Overthrow of Tyre (26:1-21)Tyre, on the Mediterranean coast of Phoenicia, just north of Palestine, was a leading commercial centre in the ancient world. The city was in two parts, one built on the mainland coast, the other on an island a short distance offshore. Tyre rejoiced at the fall of Jerusalem, for the way was now open for it to take over the important trade routes that passed through Jerusalem (26:1-2). The prophet announces that in the years ahead, armies from various nations will... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ezekiel 26:17

take up = raise. a lamentation = a dirge. that wast inhabited of seafaring men: or, that west an abode from the seas. The Syriac kataluo means to lodge , and is the rendering of Hebrew. yashab in Numbers 25:1 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ezekiel 26:20

descend into the pit . The people of Tyre are meant, as joining those who were dead and buried. and I shall set glory . This is either a 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 ,... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Ezekiel 26:19

"Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: When I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and the great waters shall cover thee; then will I bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, to the people of old time, and will make thee to dwell in the nether part of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old, that thou be not inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the living. I will make thee a terror, and thou... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 26:16-17

Ezekiel 26:16-17. Then all the princes of the sea, &c.— That is, "All the princes and rich merchants of Sidon, Carthage, and other maritime cities, who traded with Tyre, shall express a deep concern for her misfortune." Houbigant reads the 17th verse thus, How is she destroyed, who hath been so long inhabited! the renowned city, whose defence was the sea, and whose citizens struck terror upon all who inhabit the earth! Tyre was famous for the strength of its situation, which was on the... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 26:18

Ezekiel 26:18. Now shall the isles tremble— Now the people are terrified at thy overthrow: Yea the isles of the sea are troubled at thy destruction. Houbigant. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 26:19

Ezekiel 26:19. I shall bring up the deep upon thee— I will raise against thee a mole of waters. Houbigant. read more

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