Ezekiel 26:4

They will destroy the walls of Tyre and demolish her towers. I will scrape the soil from her and make her a bare rock.

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock.

In Context

3therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, O Tyre, I am against you, and I will raise up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.

5She will become a place to spread nets in the sea, for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD. She will become plunder for the nations,

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Cross References

Leviticus 14:41And he shall have the inside of the house scraped completely and the plaster that is scraped off dumped into an unclean place outside the city.

Jeremiah 5:10Go up through her vineyards and ravage them, but do not finish them off. Strip off her branches, for they do not belong to the LORD.

Ezekiel 26:9He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and tear down your towers with his axes.

Amos 1:10So I will send fire upon the walls of Tyre to consume its citadels.”

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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