Ezekiel 26:4 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock. ”

Ezekiel 26:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 26. Siege and Destruction of Tyre. Tyre is the incarnation of unrestrained commercialism; and, in the mind of Ezekiel her doom is justified by the malicious joy with which she hailed the fa...
Ezekiel 26:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

the top of. rock . a bare rock.
Ezekiel 26:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock. I will also scrape her dust from her - I will totally...
Ezekiel 26:4 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

I will also scrape her dust from her— I will brush away the dust out of her, and reduce her to a dry rock: Houbigant: an allusion to the custom in Palestine of fertilizing particular spots by car...
Ezekiel 26:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up. I ... will cause many nati...
Ezekiel 26:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

§ 2. Tyre (and Sidon) (Ezekiel 26-28) Tyre was the capital of Phoenicia, the seaboard country on the NW. of Palestine. The Phoenicians were the great mariners of the ancient world, and Tyre was a...
Ezekiel 26:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Her dust. — Comp. Ezekiel 26:12 . The dust is that of her ruined walls and palaces and temples. “Scraping” expresses their utter destruction. As an historic fact, the ruins of the ancient city hav...
Ezekiel 26:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

TYRE Ezekiel 26:1-21 , Ezekiel 29:17-21 IN the time of Ezekiel Tyre was still at the height of her commercial prosperity. Although not the oldest of the Phoenician cities, she held a supremacy...
Ezekiel 26:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The doom of the two dealt with Tyre and Sidon, but principally with Tyre. Concerning her, the prophet first made a general statement describing her sin, and the judgment determined against her, decla...
Ezekiel 26:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

That the Prophecy of Ezekiel hath a reference to events greater than the deliverance of Israel from Babylon is granted by almost all writers, both Jews and Gentiles, And hence, various have been the...
Ezekiel 26:4 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

THE DOOM OF TYRE ‘I will … make her like the top of a rock.’ Ezekiel 26:4 Eleven years after the carrying away of Jehoiachin—i.e. the year after the fall of Jerusalem, and whilst Tyre was re...
Ezekiel 26:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus .... Undermining them, or breaking them down with their battering rams: and break down her towers ; with axes, Ezekiel 26:9 built upon the walls; erecte...
Ezekiel 26:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock. Ver. 4. And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus...
Ezekiel 26:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

They shall destroy the walls of Tyrus , &c. The expressions of these verses signify that Tyre should be entirely demolished, and that the place where the city stood should be made as bare as the...
Ezekiel 26:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Burden of Tyre. B. C. 588. 1 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first...
Ezekiel 26:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Destroy; batter and demolish with their mighty engines, which shall shake, disjoint, and beat down the strongest parts of their walls. Break down; undermine, that they may tumble at once, or empl...
Ezekiel 26:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The First Oracle Against Tyre ( Ezekiel 26:1-21 ).
Ezekiel 26:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

THE FALL OF TYRE. (Chap. 26) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—“In four sections, commencing with the formula, ‘Thus saith the Lord,’ Tyre, the mistress of the sea is threatened with destruction. In the first strop...
Ezekiel 26:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 26:2 . Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, Aha. The Lord's people were not beloved among the gentile nations, because they were not what they seemed to be in regard to their holy temple. Ha...
Ezekiel 26:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION The prophetic messages against Ammon, Moab, Edom, and the Philistines were comparatively short. That against Tyre spreads over three chapters ( Ezekiel 26:1-26 ). The special prominen...
Ezekiel 26:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A General Outline of the Judgment
Ezekiel 26:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Amos 1:10 ; Ezekiel 24:7 ; Ezekiel 24:8 ; Ezekiel 26:12 ; Ezekiel 26:9 ; Isaiah 23:11 ; Jeremiah 5:10 ; Leviticus 14:41-45 ; Zechariah 9:3
Ezekiel 26:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Scrape — I will leave thee nothing; thou shalt be scraped, and swept, that not so much as dust shall remain in thee. Like — As bare as was the rock on which thy city is built.

Ezekiel 26:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 26:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Ezekiel 26:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 26:4 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 26:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 26:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 26:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ezekiel 26:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Ezekiel 26:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 26:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Ezekiel 26:4 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Ezekiel 26:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ezekiel 26:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ezekiel 26:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 26:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ezekiel 26:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 26:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 26:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Ezekiel 26:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 26:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Ezekiel 26:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ezekiel 26:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 26:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes