Ezekiel 26:4

Ezekiel 26:4 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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.
• New International Version (NIV)They will destroy the walls of Tyre and pull down her towers; I will scrape away her rubble and make her a bare rock.
• English Standard Version (ESV)They shall destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers, and I will scrape her soil from her and make her a bare rock.
• New King James Version (NKJV)And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers; I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock.

Context of Ezekiel 26:4

2“Son of man, because Tyre has said concerning Jerusalem, ‘Aha, the gateway of the peoples is broken; it has opened to me. I shall be filled, now that she is laid waste,’ 3therefore thus says the Lord God, ‘Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and I will bring up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves. They will destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers; and I will scrape her debris from her and make her a bare rock. 5She will be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea, for I have spoken,’ declares the Lord God, ‘and she will become spoil for the nations. 6Also her daughters who are on the mainland will be slain by the sword, and they will know that I am the Lord.’”

Ezekiel 26:4 word by word

וְשִׁחֲת֞וּ חֹמ֣וֹת צֹ֗ר וְהָֽרְסוּ֙ מִגְדָּלֶ֔יהָ וְסִֽחֵיתִ֥י עֲפָרָ֖הּ מִמֶּ֑נָּה וְנָתַתִּ֥י אוֹתָ֖הּ לִצְחִ֥יחַ סָֽלַע׃Read the interlinear

• destroyשָׁחַתshâchath · to ruinH7843
• the wallsחוֹמָהchômâh · wallH2346
• of Tyreצֹרtsôr tsôr · TyreH6865
• and breakהָרַסhâras · to overthrowH2040
• her towersמִגְדָּלmigdâl migdâlâh · towerH4026
• and I will scrapeסָחָהsâchâh · to scrapeH5500
• her debrisעָפָר‛âphâr · dustH6083
• from her and makeנָתַןnâthan · to give: makeH5414
• her a bareצְחִיחַtsechîyach · bareH6706
• rockסֶ֫לַעsela‛ · cragH5553

Cross-references for Ezekiel 26:4

• Ezekiel 26:9The blow of his battering rams he will direct against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers.
• Isaiah 23:11He has stretched His hand out over the sea, He has made the kingdoms tremble; The Lord has given a command concerning Canaan to demolish its strongholds.
• Jeremiah 5:10“Go up through her vine rows and destroy, But do not execute a complete destruction; Strip away her branches, For they are not the Lord’s.
• Amos 1:10So I will send fire upon the wall of Tyre And it will consume her citadels.”
• Zechariah 9:3For Tyre built herself a fortress And piled up silver like dust, And gold like the mire of the streets.
• Ezekiel 26:12Also they will make a spoil of your riches and a prey of your merchandise, break down your walls and destroy your pleasant houses, and throw your stones and your timbers and your debris into the water.
• Leviticus 14:41He shall have the house scraped all around inside, and they shall dump the plaster that they scrape off at an unclean place outside the city.
• Ezekiel 24:7For her blood is in her midst; She placed it on the bare rock; She did not pour it on the ground To cover it with dust.

Commentaries on Ezekiel 26:4

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4I will also scrape her dust from her - I will totally destroy her fortifications, and leave her nothing but a barren rock, as she was before. This cannot refer to the capture of Tyre by Nebuchadnezzar. It flourished long after his time.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3-6The nations Tyre wanted to trade with would instead attack her, prepared for war. Like Jerusalem, she would become loot for their armies. as the sea brings up its waves: This image fits Tyre very well. Tyre was built on a small island along the coast. Waves were a normal part of life there. The picture shows how enemies would strike Tyre again and again, like waves hitting the shore. It is a metaphor (a word picture) for a military assault.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 3-43-4. 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…Read the comment

In the dictionaries

• Beauty
• Departure
• Prophecy
• Scrape
• Tyre
• Commerce
• Isaiah
• Trade
• Nebuchadnezzar, or Nebuchadrezzar
• Tyrus

Commentaries on Ezekiel 26

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings