Ezekiel 26:8 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field: and he shall make a fort against thee, and casta a mount against thee, and lift up the buckler against thee. ”

• Ezekiel 26:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  The description of the siege is that of a town invested by land. Ezekiel 26:7 Nebuchadrezzar - Jeremiah 21:2 note. Ezekiel 26:8 Lift up the buckler - i. e., set a wall of shields,...

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• Ezekiel 26:8 - 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...

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• Ezekiel 26:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  daughters which are in the field . her daughter cities and towns inland.

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• Ezekiel 26:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field: and he shall make a fort against thee, and cast a mount against thee, and lift up the buckler against thee. Thy daughters in the field - This...

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• Ezekiel 26:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field: and he shall make a fort against thee, and cast a mount against thee, and lift up the buckler against thee. No JFB commentary on this...

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• Ezekiel 26:8 - 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...

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• Ezekiel 26:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  A fort... a mount. — These and the following particulars of the siege indicate the use of the ordinary methods as in the attack of a city on the mainland. The explanation of this is doubtless partl...

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• Ezekiel 26:8 - 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...

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• Ezekiel 26:8 - 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...

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• Ezekiel 26:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  I beg the Reader not to be alarmed, at the title here given to the Chaldean monarch. By a King of Kings, means no more than that by his victories, he had many Kings in tribute to him. The Lord was pl...

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• Ezekiel 26:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field ,.... The first thing he would do would be to destroy the cities, towns and villages on the continent, near to Tyre, and dependent on it, as i...

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• Ezekiel 26:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field: and he shall make a fort against thee, and cast a mount against thee, and lift up the buckler against thee. Ver. 8. He shall slay with the...

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• Ezekiel 26:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar Josephus asserts, upon the authority of the Phenician Annals, translated by Menander, the Ephesian, into Greek, “that Nebuchadnezzar besieged Tyre thi...

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• Ezekiel 26:8 - 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...

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• Ezekiel 26:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  See Ezekiel 26:6 . Make a fort against thee: see Ezekiel 4:2 , Ezekiel 17:17 . Cast a mount against thee: he shall draw a line round about thee, and build bastions, raise sconces to defend...

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• Ezekiel 26:8 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The First Oracle Against Tyre ( Ezekiel 26:1-21 ).

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• Ezekiel 26:8 - 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...

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• Ezekiel 26:8 - 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...

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• Ezekiel 26:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar King of Babylon. The prophecy against Tyre I. What were the grounds of her judgment. She was judged for her sins. 1. She abused the privilege o...

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• Ezekiel 26:8 - 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...

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• Ezekiel 26:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Prophecy Concerning Nebuchadnezzar's Coming

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• Ezekiel 26:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Samuel 20:15 ; Ezekiel 21:22 ; Jeremiah 32:24 ; Jeremiah 52:4 ; Jeremiah 6:6

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