THE JUDGMENT ON TYRE THROUGH NEBUCHADNEZZAR (TWENTY-SIXTH THROUGH TWENTY-EIGHTH CHAPTERS). (Eze. 26:1-21) The specification of the date, which had been omitted in the case of the four preceding objects of judgment, ma…
1Aconteció en el undécimo año, en el día primero del mes, que vino a mí palabra de Jehová, diciendo:
2Hijo de hombre, por cuanto dijo Tiro contra Jerusalén: Ea, bien; quebrantada está la que era puerta de las naciones; a mí se volvió; yo seré llena, y ella desierta;
3por tanto, así ha dicho Jehová el Señor: He aquí yo estoy contra ti, oh Tiro, y haré subir contra ti muchas naciones, como el mar hace subir sus olas.
4Y demolerán los muros de Tiro, y derribarán sus torres; y barreré de ella hasta su polvo, y la dejaré como una peña lisa.
5Tendedero de redes será en medio del mar, porque yo he hablado, dice Jehová el Señor; y será saqueada por las naciones.
6Y sus hijas que están en el campo serán muertas a espada; y sabrán que yo soy Jehová.
7Porque así ha dicho Jehová el Señor: He aquí que del norte traigo yo contra Tiro a Nabucodonosor rey de Babilonia, rey de reyes, con caballos y carros y jinetes, y tropas y mucho pueblo.
8Matará a espada a tus hijas que están en el campo, y pondrá contra ti torres de sitio, y levantará contra ti baluarte, y escudo afirmará contra ti.
9Y pondrá contra ti arietes, contra tus muros, y tus torres destruirá con hachas.
10Por la multitud de sus caballos te cubrirá el polvo de ellos; con el estruendo de su caballería y de las ruedas y de los carros, temblarán tus muros, cuando entre por tus puertas como por portillos de ciudad destruida.
11Con los cascos de sus caballos hollará todas tus calles; a tu pueblo matará a filo de espada, y tus fuertes columnas caerán a tierra.
12Y robarán tus riquezas y saquearán tus mercaderías; arruinarán tus muros, y tus casas preciosas destruirán; y pondrán tus piedras y tu madera y tu polvo en medio de las aguas.
13Y haré cesar el estrépito de tus canciones, y no se oirá más el son de tus cítaras.
14Y te pondré como una peña lisa; tendedero de redes serás, y nunca más serás edificada; porque yo Jehová he hablado, dice Jehová el Señor.
15Así ha dicho Jehová el Señor a Tiro: ¿No se estremecerán las costas al estruendo de tu caída, cuando griten los heridos, cuando se haga la matanza en medio de ti?
16Entonces todos los príncipes del mar descenderán de sus tronos, y se quitarán sus mantos, y desnudarán sus ropas bordadas; de espanto se vestirán, se sentarán sobre la tierra, y temblarán a cada momento, y estarán atónitos sobre ti.
17Y levantarán sobre ti endechas, y te dirán: ¿Cómo pereciste tú, poblada por gente de mar, ciudad que era alabada, que era fuerte en el mar, ella y sus habitantes, que infundían terror a todos los que la rodeaban?
18Ahora se estremecerán las islas en el día de tu caída; sí, las islas que están en el mar se espantarán a causa de tu fin.
19Porque así ha dicho Jehová el Señor: Yo te convertiré en ciudad asolada, como las ciudades que no se habitan; haré subir sobre ti el abismo, y las muchas aguas te cubrirán.
20Y te haré descender con los que descienden al sepulcro, con los pueblos de otros siglos, y te pondré en las profundidades de la tierra, como los desiertos antiguos, con los que descienden al sepulcro, para que nunca más seas poblada; y daré gloria en la tierra de los vivientes.
21Te convertiré en espanto, y dejarás de ser; serás buscada, y nunca más serás hallada, dice Jehová el Señor.
JAMIESON-FAUSSET-BROWN BIBLE COMMENTARY
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I. Tyre-- (Jos 19:29; Sa2 24:7), literally, meaning "the rock-city," Zor; a name applying to the isl…
Tyre-- (Jos 19:29; Sa2 24:7), literally, meaning "the rock-city," Zor; a name applying to the island Tyre, called New Tyre, rather than Old Tyre on the mainland. They were half a mile apart. "New Tyre," a century and a half before the fall of Jerusalem, had successfully resisted Shalmaneser of Assyria, for five years besieging it (MENANDER, from the Tyrian archives, quoted by JOSEPHUS, Antiquities, 9.14. 2). It was the stronger and more important of the two cities, and is the one chiefly, though not exclusively, here meant. Tyre was originally a colony of Zidon. Nebuchadnezzar's siege of it lasted thirteen years (Eze 29:18; Isa. 23:1-18). Though no profane author mentions his having succeeded in the siege, JEROME states he read the fact in Assyrian histories.
Aha!--exultation over a fallen rival (Psa 35:21, Psa 35:25).
she . . . that was the gates--that is, the single gate composed of two folding doors. Hence the verb is singular. "Gates" were the place of resort for traffic and public business: so here it expresses a mart of commerce frequented by merchants. Tyre regards Jerusalem not as an open enemy, for her territory being the narrow, long strip of land north of Philistia, between Mount Lebanon and the sea, her interest was to cultivate friendly relations with the Jews, on whom she was dependent for corn (Eze 27:17; Kg1 5:9; Act 12:20). But Jerusalem had intercepted some of the inland traffic which she wished to monopolize to herself; so, in her intensely selfish worldly-mindedness, she exulted heartlessly over the fall of Jerusalem as her own gain. Hence she incurred the wrath of God as pre-eminently the world's representative in its ambition, selfishness, and pride, in defiance of the will of God (Isa 23:9).
she is turned unto me--that is, the mart of corn, wine, oil, balsam, &c., which she once was, is transferred to me. The caravans from Palmyra, Petra, and the East will no longer be intercepted by the market ("the gates") of Jerusalem, but will come to me.
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II. nations . . . as the sea . . . waves--In striking contrast to the boasting of Tyre, God threatens…
nations . . . as the sea . . . waves--In striking contrast to the boasting of Tyre, God threatens to bring against her Babylon's army levied from "many nations," even as the Mediterranean waves that dashed against her rock-founded city on all sides.
scrape her dust . . . make her . . . top of . . . rock--or, "a bare rock" [GROTIUS]. The soil which the Tyrians had brought together upon the rock on which they built their city, I will scrape so clean away as to leave no dust, but only the bare rock as it was. An awful contrast to her expectation of filling herself with all the wealth of the East now that Jerusalem has fallen.
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III. in the midst of the sea--plainly referring to New Tyre (Eze 27:32).
in the midst of the sea--plainly referring to New Tyre (Eze 27:32).
IV
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IV. her daughters . . . in the field--The surrounding villages, dependent on her in the open country,…
her daughters . . . in the field--The surrounding villages, dependent on her in the open country, shall share the fate of the mother city.
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V. from the north--the original locality of the Chaldeans; also, the direction by which they entered…
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.
king of kings--so called because of the many kings who owned allegiance to him (Kg2 18:28). God had delegated to him the universal earth-empire which is His (Dan 2:47). The Son of God alone has the right and title inherently, and shall assume it when the world kings shall have been fully proved as abusers of the trust (Ti1 6:15; Rev 17:12-14; Rev 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.
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VI. engines of war--literally, "an apparatus for striking." "He shall apply the stroke of the batteri…
engines of war--literally, "an apparatus for striking." "He shall apply the stroke of the battering-ram against thy walls." HAVERNICK translates, "His enginery of destruction"; literally, the "destruction (not merely the stroke) of his enginery."
axes--literally, "swords."
VII
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VII. dust--So thick shall be the "dust" stirred up by the immense numbers of "horses," that it shall "…
dust--So thick shall be the "dust" stirred up by the immense numbers of "horses," that it shall "cover" the whole city as a cloud.
horses . . . chariots--As in Eze 26:3-5, New Tyre on the insular rock in the sea (compare Isa 23:2, Isa 23:4, Isa 23:6) is referred to; so here, in Eze 26:9-11, Old Tyre on the mainland. Both are included in the prophecies under one name.
wheels--FAIRBAIRN thinks that here, and in Eze 23:24, as "the wheels" are distinct from the "chariots," some wheelwork for riding on, or for the operations of the siege, are meant.
VIII
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VIII. thy strong garrisons--literally, "the statutes of thy strength"; so the forts which are "monument…
thy strong garrisons--literally, "the statutes of thy strength"; so the forts which are "monuments of thy strength." MAURER understands, in stricter agreement with the literal meaning, "the statues" or "obelisks erected in honor of the idols, the tutelary gods of Tyre," as Melecarte, answering to the Grecian Hercules, whose temple stood in Old Tyre (compare Jer 43:13, Margin).
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IX. lay thy stones . . . timber . . . in . . . midst of . . . water--referring to the insular New Tyr…
lay thy stones . . . timber . . . in . . . midst of . . . water--referring to the insular New Tyre (Eze 26:3, Eze 26:5; Eze 27:4, Eze 27:25-26). When its lofty buildings and towers fall, surrounded as it was with the sea which entered its double harbor and washed its ramparts, the "stones . . . timbers . . . and dust" appropriately are described as thrown down "in the midst of the water." Though Ezekiel attributes the capture of Tyre to Nebuchadnezzar (see on Eze 29:18), yet it does not follow that the final destruction of it described is attributed by him to the same monarch. The overthrow of Tyre by Nebuchadnezzar was the first link in the long chain of evil--the first deadly blow which prepared for, and was the earnest of, the final doom. The change in this verse from the individual conqueror "he," to the general "they," marks that what he did was not the whole, but only paved the way for others to complete the work begun by him. It was to be a progressive work until she was utterly destroyed. Thus the words here answer exactly to what Alexander did. With the "stones, timber," and rubbish of Old Tyre, he built a causeway in seven months to New Tyre on the island and so took it [CURTIUS, 4, 2], 322 B.C.
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X. Instead of the joyousness of thy prosperity, a death-like silence shall reign (Isa 24:8; Jer 7:34).
Instead of the joyousness of thy prosperity, a death-like silence shall reign (Isa 24:8; Jer 7:34).
XI
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XI. He concludes in nearly the same words as he began (Eze 26:4-5).
He concludes in nearly the same words as he began (Eze 26:4-5).
built no more--fulfilled as to the mainland Tyre, under Nebuchadnezzar. The insular Tyre recovered partly, after seventy years (Isa 23:17-18), but again suffered under Alexander, then under Antigonus, then under the Saracens at the beginning of the fourteenth century. Now its harbors 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.
XII
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XII. The impression which the overthrow of Tyre produced on other maritime nations and upon her own co…
The impression which the overthrow of Tyre produced on other maritime nations and upon her own colonies, for example, Utica, Carthage, and Tartessus or Tarshish in Spain.
isles--maritime lands. Even mighty Carthage used to send a yearly offering to the temple of Hercules at Tyre: and the mother city gave high priests to her colonies. Hence the consternation at her fall felt in the widely scattered dependencies with which she was so closely connected by the ties of religion, as well as commercial intercourse.
shake--metaphorically: "be agitated" (Jer 49:21).
XIII
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XIII. come down from their thrones . . . upon the ground--"the throne of the mourners" (Job 2:13; Jon 3…
come down from their thrones . . . upon the ground--"the throne of the mourners" (Job 2:13; Jon 3:6).
princes of the sea--are the merchant rulers of Carthage and other colonies of Tyre, who had made themselves rich and powerful by trading on the sea (Isa 23:8).
clothe . . . with trembling--Hebrew, "tremblings." Compare Eze 7:27, "clothed with desolation"; Psa 132:18. In a public calamity the garment was changed for a mourning garb.
XIV
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XIV. inhabited of seafaring men--that is, which was frequented by merchants of various sea-bordering l…
inhabited of seafaring men--that is, which was frequented by merchants of various sea-bordering lands [GROTIUS]. FAIRBAIRN translates with Peschito, "Thou inhabitant of the seas" (the Hebrew literal meaning). Tyre rose as it were out of the seas as if she got thence her inhabitants, being peopled so closely down to the waters. So Venice was called "the bride of the sea."
strong in the sea--through her insular position.
cause their terror to be on all that haunt it--namely, the sea. The Hebrew is rather, "they put their terror upon all her (the city's) inhabitants," that is, they make the name of every Tyrian to be feared [FAIRBAIRN].
XV
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XV. thy departure-- Isa 23:6, Isa 23:12 predicts that the Tyrians, in consequence of the siege, shoul…
thy departure-- Isa 23:6, Isa 23:12 predicts that the Tyrians, in consequence of the siege, should pass over the Mediterranean to the lands bordering on it ("Chittim," "Tarshish," &c.). So Ezekiel here. Accordingly JEROME says that he read in Assyrian histories that, "when the Tyrians saw no hope of escaping, they fled to Carthage or some islands of the Ionian and Ægean Seas" [BISHOP NEWTON]. (See on Eze 29:18). GROTIUS explains "departure," that is, "in the day when hostages shall be carried away from thee to Babylon." The parallelism to "thy fall" makes me think "departure" must mean "thy end" in general, but with an included allusion to the "departure" of most of her people to her colonies at the fall of the city.
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16. great waters--appropriate metaphor of the Babylonian hosts, which literally, by breaking down ins…
great waters--appropriate metaphor of the Babylonian hosts, which literally, by breaking down insular Tyre's ramparts, caused the sea to "cover" part of her.
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17. the pit--Tyre's disappearance is compared to that of the dead placed in their sepulchres and no m…
the pit--Tyre's disappearance is compared to that of the dead placed in their sepulchres and no more seen among the living (compare Eze 32:18, Eze 32:23; Isa 14:11, Isa 14:15, Isa 14:19).
I shall set glory in the land--In contrast to Tyre consigned to the "pit" of death, I shall set glory (that is, My presence symbolized by the Shekinah cloud, the antitype to which shall be Messiah, "the glory as of the only-begotten of the Father," Joh 1:14; Isa 4:2, Isa 4:5; Zac 6:13) in Judah.
of the living--as opposed to Tyre consigned to the "pit" of death. Judea is to be the land of national and spiritual life, being restored after its captivity (Eze 47:9). FAIRBAIRN loses the antithesis by applying the negative to both clauses, "and that thou be not set as a glory in the land of the living."
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18. terror--an example of judgment calculated to terrify all evildoers.
terror--an example of judgment calculated to terrify all evildoers.
thou shall be no more--Not that there was to be no more a Tyre, but she was no more to be the Tyre that once was: her glory and name were to be no more. As, to Old Tyre, the prophecy was literally fulfilled, not a vestige of it being left.
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Ezekiel — Capítulo 26
THE JUDGMENT ON TYRE THROUGH NEBUCHADNEZZAR (TWENTY-SIXTH THROUGH TWENTY-EIGHTH CHAPTERS). (Eze. 26:1-21) The specification of the date, which had been omitted in the case of the four preceding objects of judgment, ma…
Texto — Reina-Valera 1960
1Aconteció en el undécimo año, en el día primero del mes, que vino a mí palabra de Jehová, diciendo:
2Hijo de hombre, por cuanto dijo Tiro contra Jerusalén: Ea, bien; quebrantada está la que era puerta de las naciones; a mí se volvió; yo seré llena, y ella desierta;
3por tanto, así ha dicho Jehová el Señor: He aquí yo estoy contra ti, oh Tiro, y haré subir contra ti muchas naciones, como el mar hace subir sus olas.
4Y demolerán los muros de Tiro, y derribarán sus torres; y barreré de ella hasta su polvo, y la dejaré como una peña lisa.
5Tendedero de redes será en medio del mar, porque yo he hablado, dice Jehová el Señor; y será saqueada por las naciones.
6Y sus hijas que están en el campo serán muertas a espada; y sabrán que yo soy Jehová.
7Porque así ha dicho Jehová el Señor: He aquí que del norte traigo yo contra Tiro a Nabucodonosor rey de Babilonia, rey de reyes, con caballos y carros y jinetes, y tropas y mucho pueblo.
8Matará a espada a tus hijas que están en el campo, y pondrá contra ti torres de sitio, y levantará contra ti baluarte, y escudo afirmará contra ti.
9Y pondrá contra ti arietes, contra tus muros, y tus torres destruirá con hachas.
10Por la multitud de sus caballos te cubrirá el polvo de ellos; con el estruendo de su caballería y de las ruedas y de los carros, temblarán tus muros, cuando entre por tus puertas como por portillos de ciudad destruida.
11Con los cascos de sus caballos hollará todas tus calles; a tu pueblo matará a filo de espada, y tus fuertes columnas caerán a tierra.
12Y robarán tus riquezas y saquearán tus mercaderías; arruinarán tus muros, y tus casas preciosas destruirán; y pondrán tus piedras y tu madera y tu polvo en medio de las aguas.
13Y haré cesar el estrépito de tus canciones, y no se oirá más el son de tus cítaras.
14Y te pondré como una peña lisa; tendedero de redes serás, y nunca más serás edificada; porque yo Jehová he hablado, dice Jehová el Señor.
15Así ha dicho Jehová el Señor a Tiro: ¿No se estremecerán las costas al estruendo de tu caída, cuando griten los heridos, cuando se haga la matanza en medio de ti?
16Entonces todos los príncipes del mar descenderán de sus tronos, y se quitarán sus mantos, y desnudarán sus ropas bordadas; de espanto se vestirán, se sentarán sobre la tierra, y temblarán a cada momento, y estarán atónitos sobre ti.
17Y levantarán sobre ti endechas, y te dirán: ¿Cómo pereciste tú, poblada por gente de mar, ciudad que era alabada, que era fuerte en el mar, ella y sus habitantes, que infundían terror a todos los que la rodeaban?
18Ahora se estremecerán las islas en el día de tu caída; sí, las islas que están en el mar se espantarán a causa de tu fin.
19Porque así ha dicho Jehová el Señor: Yo te convertiré en ciudad asolada, como las ciudades que no se habitan; haré subir sobre ti el abismo, y las muchas aguas te cubrirán.
20Y te haré descender con los que descienden al sepulcro, con los pueblos de otros siglos, y te pondré en las profundidades de la tierra, como los desiertos antiguos, con los que descienden al sepulcro, para que nunca más seas poblada; y daré gloria en la tierra de los vivientes.
21Te convertiré en espanto, y dejarás de ser; serás buscada, y nunca más serás hallada, dice Jehová el Señor.
JAMIESON-FAUSSET-BROWN BIBLE COMMENTARY
Versículo 2
I. Tyre-- (Jos 19:29; Sa2 24:7), literally, meaning "the rock-city," Zor; a name applying to the isl…
Versículo 3
II. nations . . . as the sea . . . waves--In striking contrast to the boasting of Tyre, God threatens…
Versículo 5
III. in the midst of the sea--plainly referring to New Tyre (Eze 27:32).
Versículo 6
IV. her daughters . . . in the field--The surrounding villages, dependent on her in the open country,…
Versículo 7
V. from the north--the original locality of the Chaldeans; also, the direction by which they entered…
Versículo 9
VI. engines of war--literally, "an apparatus for striking." "He shall apply the stroke of the batteri…
Versículo 10
VII. dust--So thick shall be the "dust" stirred up by the immense numbers of "horses," that it shall "…
Versículo 11
VIII. thy strong garrisons--literally, "the statutes of thy strength"; so the forts which are "monument…
Versículo 12
IX. lay thy stones . . . timber . . . in . . . midst of . . . water--referring to the insular New Tyr…
Versículo 13
X. Instead of the joyousness of thy prosperity, a death-like silence shall reign (Isa 24:8; Jer 7:34).
Versículo 14
XI. He concludes in nearly the same words as he began (Eze 26:4-5).
Versículo 15
XII. The impression which the overthrow of Tyre produced on other maritime nations and upon her own co…
Versículo 16
XIII. come down from their thrones . . . upon the ground--"the throne of the mourners" (Job 2:13; Jon 3…
Versículo 17
XIV. inhabited of seafaring men--that is, which was frequented by merchants of various sea-bordering l…
Versículo 18
XV. thy departure-- Isa 23:6, Isa 23:12 predicts that the Tyrians, in consequence of the siege, shoul…
Versículo 19
16. great waters--appropriate metaphor of the Babylonian hosts, which literally, by breaking down ins…
Versículo 20
17. the pit--Tyre's disappearance is compared to that of the dead placed in their sepulchres and no m…
Versículo 21
18. terror--an example of judgment calculated to terrify all evildoers.