For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and much people.
I will bring upon Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar ... a king of kings, from the north - the original locality of the Chaldeans; also the direction by which they entered Palestine, taking the route of Riblah and Hamath on the Orontes, in preference to that across the desert between Babylon and Judea.
A king of kings - so called because of the many kings who owned allegiance to him (2 Kings 18:28). God had delegated to him the universal earth-empire, which is His as being "Lord of kings" (Daniel 2:47). The Son of God alone has the right and title inherently, being not merely "a king of kings," as was Nebuchadnezzar, but "the King of kings." He shall assume the kingdom when the world-kings shall have been fully proved as abusers of the trust (1 Timothy 6:15; Revelation 17:12-14; Revelation 19:15-16). Ezekiel's prophecy was not based on conjecture from the past, for Shalmaneser, with all the might of the Assyrian empire, had failed in his siege of Tyre. Yet Nebuchadnezzar was to succeed. Josephus tells us that Nebuchadnezzar began the siege in the seventh year of Ithobal's reign, king of Tyre.