Ezekiel 26:5 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD: and it shall become a spoil to the nations. ”

Ezekiel 26:5 - 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 26:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

the midst of the sea. Tyre was on. promontory spreading out into the sea. saith the Lord GOD . [is] Adonai Jehovah's oracle,
Ezekiel 26:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea: for I have spoken it , saith the Lord GOD: and it shall become a spoil to the nations. A place for the spreading of nets - A...
Ezekiel 26:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD: and it shall become a spoil to the nations. It shall be a place for the spread...
Ezekiel 26:5 - 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 26:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The spreading of nets. — Such has been the chief use of insular Tyre for ages, and although a miserable village of 3,000 people has sprung up, chiefly within the present century, upon a part of its...
Ezekiel 26:5 - 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 26:5 - 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 26:5 - 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 26:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea ,.... Where only fishermen would be seen washing their nets, and then spreading them upon this rock, where Tyre stood, to dry th...
Ezekiel 26:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

It shall be [a place for] the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea: for I have spoken [it], saith the Lord GOD: and it shall become a spoil to the nations. Ver. 5. It shall be a place for the...
Ezekiel 26:5 - 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 26:5 - 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 26:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

As barren sandy islets in the midst of the sea, good for nothing but to dry fishermen's nets, shalt thou be. A spoil; a prey: though the contexture of the words place this after its being made so bar...
Ezekiel 26:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The First Oracle Against Tyre ( Ezekiel 26:1-21 ).
Ezekiel 26:5 - 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 26:5 - 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 26:5 - 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 26:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A General Outline of the Judgment
Ezekiel 26:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 25:7 ; Ezekiel 26:14 ; Ezekiel 26:19 ; Ezekiel 27:32 ; Ezekiel 29:19 ; Ezekiel 47:10

Ezekiel 26:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 26:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Ezekiel 26:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 26:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 26:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 26:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ezekiel 26:5 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Ezekiel 26:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 26:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Ezekiel 26:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ezekiel 26:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ezekiel 26:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 26:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ezekiel 26:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 26:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 26:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Ezekiel 26:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 26:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Ezekiel 26:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ezekiel 26:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge