Ezekiel 26:11 - Exposition

Thy strong garrisons ; literally, the pillars of thy strength (Revised Version). So the Vulgate, nobiles statuae . So the word is used in Isaiah 19:19 ; Jeremiah 43:13 ; 2 Kings 3:2 . The words probably refer to the two famous columns standing in the temple of the Tyrian Hercules, one of gold and one of emerald (possibly malachite or lapis-lazuli), as symbols of strength, or as pedestals surmounted by a statue of Baal (Herod; 2.44).