Ezekiel 26:20

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 26:15-21

The utter ruin of Tyre is here represented in very strong and lively figures, which are exceedingly affecting. 1. See how high, how great, Tyre had been, how little likely ever to come to this. The remembrance of men's former grandeur and plenty is a great aggravation of their present disgrace and poverty. Tyre was a renowned city (Ezek. 26:17), famous among the nations, the crowning city (so she is called Isa. 23:8), a city that had crowns in her gift, honoured all she smiled upon, crowned... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 26:20

When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit ,.... The grave, and make thee like to them: with the people of old time ; either the people of the old world, or, however, who have been dead long ago: and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth ; where the dead are laid: in places desolate of old : long ago unfrequented by men; as such places be as are for the burial of the dead: with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited ; all the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 26:20

And I shall set glory in the land of the living - Judea so called, the land of the living God. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 26:1-21

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 26:1-21

The sin and doom of Tyre. "And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying," etc. I. THE SIN OF TYRE . "Son of man, because that Tyre hath said against Jerusalem, Aha! she is broken that was the gate of the peoples; she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished, now that she is laid waste." The sin which is here charged against Tyre is extreme and cruel selfishness. There is no evidence in this chapter that... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 26:15-21

Glory departed. A more imaginative and pathetic picture than that painted in these words will scarcely be found in revelation, or indeed in all literature. The anticipation of Tyre's destruction seems to have awakened all the poetry of the prophet's nature. And no wonder; for never was a contrast more marked and more significant than that between Tyre in its grandeur and Tyre in its desolation. The isles shake with the resounding crash of the city's fall. The groans of the wounded and the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 26:15-21

National disaster becomes a public lesson. The world of men is one, although nationalities are many. There is a thread of unity on which the separate jewels of humanity are strung. What affects one affects, in some measure, the whole. I. THERE IS MUTUAL INTERDEPENDENCE OF NATIONS . Nations, like individuals, have been incarnations of selfishness. They have tried to aggrandize for self alone, but they have failed, and in most cases the failure has been a disaster. In... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 26:20

When I shall bring thee down , etc. The pit is sheol, Hades, the unseen world of the dead. The image may have been suggested by Isaiah 14:9 , where it is used of Babylon. It was obviously one on which the mind of Ezekiel dwelt, and is reproduced in Ezekiel 32:17-32 . Here, apparently, the sinking in the depth of the waters ( Ezekiel 32:19 ) is thought of as leading to that world of the dead that lay beneath them. The people of old time may possibly include the races of the old... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 26:20

An encouraging assurance for a depressed people. "And I shall set glory in the land of the living." Accepting this rendering as expressing the meaning of the original, and as applicable to Judah, we see in it— I. A REMARKABLE DESIGNATION OF THE HOLY LAND . It is here called "the land of the living." Hengstenberg views "the land of the living" as standing in "contrast to Sheol, the land. of the dead, to which in the foregoing the inhabitants of Tyre are assigned." The... read more

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

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