Ezekiel 26:12

They will take away all the people’s valuable possessions and steal the things that the merchants sell. They will tear down the walls of the houses and destroy their fine houses. Then they will throw into the sea the stones from the walls of those houses and the timber and the rubble.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water.

In Context

11The horses will trample all of the streets of the city with their hooves. The soldiers will kill the people with their swords; and they will cause your strong pillars to ◄collapse/fall to the ground►.

13No longer will you sing noisy songs, and people will not play their harps any more.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:10During the spring of the next year, King Nebuchadnezzar sent soldiers to bring him to Babylon. They also took to Babylon many valuable things from the temple of Yahweh. Then Nebuchadnezzar appointed Jehoiachin’s uncle, Zedekiah, to be the king of Judah.

Isaiah 23:11It is as though Yahweh stretched out his hand over the sea and shook the kingdoms of the earth. He commanded that in Phoenicia/Canaan all its fortresses must be destroyed.

Isaiah 32:12Beat/Hit your breasts to show that you are grieving about what will happen in your fertile fields and to your fruitful grapevines,

Ezekiel 26:5Out in the sea, Tyre will become an island where men spread their fishing nets to dry them. That will surely happen because I, Yahweh the Lord, have predicted it.

Ezekiel 28:8They will bring you down to your grave; you will die violently like [MET] those who died in the sea.

Hosea 13:15Even if you people of Israel prosper more than the nearby nations do, the army of Assyria will come like [MET] an east wind that blows from the desert; the springs and wells in Israel will become dry; and your enemies will take away all your valuable possessions.

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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