Ezekiel 26:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴And 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.

Ezekiel 26:4 —

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Cross-References

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Amos 1:10
But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which shall devour the palaces thereof.
Isaiah 23:11
He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the LORD hath given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy the strong holds thereof.
Ezekiel 26:9
And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.
Leviticus 14:41-45
And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off without the city into an unclean place: …
Ezekiel 24:7-8
For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust; …

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-14)

This prophecy is dated in the eleventh year, which was the year that Jerusalem was taken, and in the first day of the month, but it is not said what month, some think the month in which Jerusalem was taken, which was the fourth month, others the month after; or perhaps it was the first month, and so it was the first day of the year. Observe here, I. The pleasure with which the Tyrians looked upon…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

3-4. 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…