Ezekiel 26:16

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 26:16

Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones ,.... The kings of the islands of the sea shall lay aside their regalia, all their royal grandeur, and the ensigns of it; leave their thrones of state, and sit in an humble posture: and lay away their robes, and put off their broidered garments ; their royal robes and raiment of needlework curiously embroidered, and richly wrought, such as princes wear; so did the king of Nineveh in token of humiliation, Jonah 3:6 . The... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 26:16

The princes of the sea - The chief maritime states, such as Leptis, Utica, Carthage, Gades, etc. See Calmet. 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 26:15-18

A lamentation over fallen greatness. "Thus saith the Lord God to Tyrus; Shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall, " etc.? These verses suggest the following observations. I. THE JUDGMENTS OF GOD ARE SOMETIMES SO AWFUL AS TO FILL THE EXALTED AND MIGHTY WITH AMAZEMENT AND DISMAY . ( Ezekiel 26:15 , Ezekiel 26:16 ; cf. Jeremiah 4:7-9 .) The isles are the islands of the Mediterranean, and places on the coast also are perhaps... 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 26:16

The princes of the sea are not the kings of the isles, but the merchant-princes of the city ( Isaiah 23:8 ). They shall lay aside their robes of state—Tyrian purple embroidered with gold and silver—and shall put on the garments of mourners. Jonah 3:6 presents an interesting parallel. The word thrones is used, as in 1 Samuel 4:13 , for any chair of state, as that of priest or judge ( Proverbs 9:14 ; Esther 3:1 ), as well as for the specifically kingly throne. For the, most part,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 26:16

The princes of the sea. The Tyrians were a seafaring people on a large scale. Unlike the poor Philistines, who did not go beyond the fisherman's simple toil, those adventurers swept the Mediterranean with their fleets, and even ventured to distant shores of the Atlantic. They had the advantages and the evils of a great maritime nation. I. THE PRINCES OF THE SEA GATHERED RICHES , The merchants of Tyre were princes. Wealth was got by industry, daring, and enterprise. Thus... read more

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