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Ezekiel 26

Chapter 26

Tyre is fifth.  This chapter starts with a time stamp: 11 year on the first day of the month.  Because Tyre plotted to take advantage of the land of Judah after it fell.  This verse:

3 therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and will bring up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves. [Eze 26:3 ESV]  This implies that Tyre would be attacked again and again, from many directions and by many nations.  See explanation from the first time I read this...

7 "For thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will bring against Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses and chariots, and with horsemen and a host of many soldiers. [Eze 26:7 ESV]  So Nebuchadnezzar is predicted ahead of time to attack Tyre also.  He will be the first, but not the last.

14 I will make you a bare rock. You shall be a place for the spreading of nets. You shall never be rebuilt, for I am the LORD; I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD. [Eze 26:14 ESV]

This prophecy goes into great detail, and many verses.  Far more than any of the previous prophecies.  Maybe because for a place like Tyre to fall was a full on demonstration of the power of the God of Israel.  Only fools would deny that God was involved in this fall.  Only fools would think this was just a natural normal thing for nations to do to each other.  This whole chapter is exclusively about Tyre.  It ends with this verse:

21 I will bring you to a dreadful end, and you shall be no more. Though you be sought for, you will never be found again, declares the Lord GOD." [Eze 26:21 ESV]  Unlike Babylon, which shows up again in Revelation, this is the end for Tyre.


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