Ezekiel 26:9 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers. ”

• Ezekiel 26:9 - 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 26:9 - 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 26:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  engines of war . battering rams. Occurs only here. axes . weapon

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• Ezekiel 26:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.

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• Ezekiel 26:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers. He shall set engines of war against thy walls - literally, 'an apparatus for striking.' 'H...

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• Ezekiel 26:9 - 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 26:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Engines of war. — This is now generally understood to mean battering-rams, although the word is a different one from that used in Ezekiel 4:2 ; Ezekiel 21:22 . There are two words here which ma...

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• Ezekiel 26:9 - 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 26:9 - 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 26:9 - 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 26:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And he shall set engines of war against thy walls ,.... Which some Jewish writers understand of crossbows, out of which stones or arrows were cast; but rather, according to Kimchi and Jarchi, they w...

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• Ezekiel 26:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers. Ver. 9. He shall set engines of war. ] Helepoles inieciet. A graphic description of a siege...

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• Ezekiel 26:9 - 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 26:9 - 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 26:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Engines of war: these were mighty engines, whatever form made of, and had their description here from the irresistible force wherewith they cast stones, and beat down all before them. Axes; whate...

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• Ezekiel 26:9 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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

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• Ezekiel 26:9 - 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 26:9 - 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 26:9 - 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 26:9 - 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 26:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Prophecy Concerning Nebuchadnezzar's Coming

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• Ezekiel 26:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Chronicles 26:15

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