Ezekiel 26:19-21 NIV

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 26:19

For thus saith the Lord God ,.... Both to the terror of Tyre, and for the comfort of his people: when I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited ; whose trade is ruined, whose inhabitants are destroyed, and whose walls are broken down, and become a mere waste and desert; where no person or anything of value are to be seen: when I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and the great waters shall cover thee : the waters of the sea shall rush in and overflow... 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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 26:21

I will make thee a terror ,.... To all the isles round about, who shall shake and tremble at the ruin of Tyre, as before observed; or to herself, being brought into a most terrible and distressed condition: and thou shall be no more : in the same place and situation, in the same happy state and condition: though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again, saith the Lord God : this is true of the antitype, Babylon, or antichrist, Revelation 18:21 . 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

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 26:21

Yet shalt thou never be found again - This is literally true; there is not the smallest vestige of the ancient Tyre, that which was erected on the main land. Even the ground seems to have been washed away; and the new Tyre is in nearly a similar state. I think this prophecy must be extended to the whole duration of Tyre. If it now be found to be in the state here described, it is sufficient to show the truth of the prophecy. And now it is found precisely in the state which the above... 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

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 26:19

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 26:21

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 26:21

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 26:1-21

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 26:1-21

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 26:15-21

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 26:15-21

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