Ezekiel 26:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

And I will make thee like the top of a rock: thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the LORD have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.

I will make thee like the top of a rock. He concludes in nearly the same words as he began (Ezekiel 26:4-5).

Thou shalt be built no more - fulfilled as to the mainland Tyre under Nebuchadnezzar. The insular Tyre recovered partly after 70 years (Isaiah 23:17-18), but again suffered under Alexander, then under Antigonus, then under the Saracens at the beginning of the 14th century A.D. Now its harbours are choked with sand, precluding all hope of future restoration: 'Not one entire house is left, and only a few fishermen take shelter in the vaults' (Maundrell). So accurately has God's word come to pass!

Ezekiel 26:14

14 And I will make thee like the top of a rock: thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the LORD have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.