Eze 26:7-21, 29:18 | TSK | STEP | I will. a king. with horses.

they shalt lay.The ruins of old Tyre contributed much to the taking of the new city; for with the stones, timber, and rubbish, Alexander built a bank, or causeway, from the continent to the island, thereby literally fulfilling the words of the prophet.

28:13; Isa 14:11; 22:2; 23:7,16; 24:8,9; Jer 7:34; 16:9; 25:10

Ho 2:11; Am 6:4-7; Jas 5:1-5; Re 18:22,23

I will.Old Tyre was never rebuilt after its destruction by Nebuchadnezzar; and there are now no traces left to mark its site. The new city, when visited by Maundrell, Bruce, and other travellers, was literally "a place for fishers to dry their nets on."

like.

4,5,12

be built.

De 13:16; Job 12:14; Mal 1:4

for I.

5:13,15,17; 17:21-24; 21:32; 22:14; 30:12; Nu 23:19; Job 40:8

Isa 14:27; Mt 24:35

shake.

18; 27:28,35; 31:16; 32:10; Isa 2:19; Jer 49:21; Heb 12:26,27

all the princes.

27:29-36; 32:21-32; Isa 14:9-13; 23:1-8; Re 18:11-19

come.

Ex 33:4,5; Job 2:12; Jon 3:6

clothe.

7:8; Job 8:22; Ps 35:26; 109:18,29; 132:18; 1Pe 5:5

trembling. Heb. tremblings. sit.

Job 2:13; Isa 3:26; 47:1; 52:2; La 2:10

tremble.

32:10; Ex 15:15; Da 5:6; Ho 11:10; Re 18:15

be astonished.

27:35

take.

19:1,14; 27:2,32; 28:12-19; 32:2,16; Jer 6:26; 7:29; 9:20; Mic 2:4

How art.

2Sa 1:19,25-27; Isa 14:12; La 1:1; Joe 1:18; Ob 1:5; Zep 2:15

Re 18:9,10,16-19

seafaring men. Heb. the seas. strong.

27:3-36; 28:2-10; Jos 19:29; Isa 23:4,8

the isles tremble.

15; 27:28-30

at thy.

Isa 23:5-7,10-12

bring.

3; Isa 8:7,8; Da 9:26; 11:40; Re 17:15

I shall bring.

32:18-32; 34:1-31; Nu 16:30,33; Ps 28:1; Isa 14:11-19; Lu 10:15

in places.

Job 30:3-6; Ps 88:3-6; Isa 59:10; La 3:6

and I shall set.

28:25,26; 39:7,25-29; Isa 4:5; Zec 2:8

in the land.

32:23,26,27,32; Ps 27:13

a terror. Heb. terrors.

15,16; 27:36; 28:19

though.

14; Ps 37:36; Jer 51:64; Re 18:21

Ezekiel 29:18

Nebuchadrezzar.

26:7-12; Jer 25:9; 27:6

a great.Nebuchadnezzar was thirteen years employed in the siege. During this long siege, the soldiers must have endured great hardships; their heads would become bald by constantly wearing their helmets; and their shoulders be peeled by carrying materials to and from the works.

yet.St. Jerome asserts, on the authority of the Assyrian histories, that when the Tyrians saw their city must fall, they put their most valuable effects on board their ships, and fled with them to the islands, and their colonies, "so that, the city being taken, Nebuchadnezzar found nothing worthy of his labour."