Ezekiel 26:9

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

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

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

In Context

8Thy daughters in the field will he slay with the sword: and he shall place around thee works of attack, and cast up against thee a mound, and erect against thee a target-fence.

10By reason of the abundance of his horses shall the dust they raise cover thee: by reason of the noise of horsemen, and wheels, and chariots, shall thy walls quake, when he entereth into thy gates, as men enter into a city that is broken in.

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Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 26:2-15

The Burden of Tyre. ( b. c. 588.) 1 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste: 3 Therefore thus saith the Lord God ; Behold, I am against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up. 4 And… Read the whole commentary →

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