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Ezekiel 26:4

They will destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers. Then I will clean away what is left from her and make her nothing but rock.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Torrey's Topical Textbook - Rocks;   Sea, the;   Towers;   Tyre;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Phoenicia;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Repentance;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Prophecy;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Tyre;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ezekiel;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Leviticus;   Rock;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Tyre;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ty'rus;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
They will destroy the walls of Tyre and demolish her towers. I will scrape the soil from her and turn her into a bare rock.
Hebrew Names Version
They shall destroy the walls of Tzor, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock.
King James Version
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.
English Standard Version
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 American Standard Bible
'They will destroy the walls of Tyre and tear down her towers; and I will sweep her debris away from her and make her a bare rock.
New Century Version
They will destroy the walls of Tyre and pull down her towers. I will also scrape away her ruins and make her a bare rock.
Amplified Bible
'They will destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers; and I will scrape her dust and debris from her and make her as bare as [the top of] a rock.
World English Bible
They shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And they shall destroy the walles of Tyrus and breake downe her towres: I will also scrape her dust from her, & make her like the top of a rocke.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'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.
Legacy Standard Bible
They will make the walls of Tyre a ruin and pull down her towers; and I will scrape her dust from her and make her a bare rock.
Berean Standard Bible
They will destroy the walls of Tyre and demolish her towers. I will scrape the soil from her and make her a bare rock.
Contemporary English Version
They will tear down your city walls and defense towers. I will sweep away the ruins until all that's left of you is a bare rock,
Complete Jewish Bible
They will destroy the walls of Tzor, they will demolish her towers. I will scrape its soil from her and reduce her to bare rock.
Darby Translation
And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers. And I will scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock.
Easy-to-Read Version
"The enemy soldiers will destroy the walls of Tyre and pull down her towers. I will also scrape the topsoil from her land. I will make Tyre a bare rock.
George Lamsa Translation
And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre and demolish her towers, and remove the soil from her; and I will make her like a bare rock.
Good News Translation
They will destroy your city walls and tear down your towers. Then I will sweep away all the dust and leave only a bare rock.
Lexham English Bible
And I will destroy the walls of Tyre, and they will demolish its towers, and I will scrape away its earthen dirt from it, and I will make it into a bare rock.
Literal Translation
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 a shining rock.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
These shal breake the walles off Tyre, and cast downe hir towres: I wil scrape the grounde from her, and make her a bare stone:
American Standard Version
And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock.
Bible in Basic English
And they will give the walls of Tyre to destruction and have its towers broken: and I will take even her dust away from her, and make her an uncovered rock
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers; I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock.
King James Version (1611)
And they shall destroy the walles of Tyrus, and breake downe her towres: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rocke.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
They shal breake the walles of Tyre, & cast downe her towres, I will scrape her dust fro her, & make her a drie rocke.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they shall cast down the walls of Sor, and shall cast down thy towers: and I will scrape her dust from off her, and make her a bare rock.
English Revised Version
And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thei schulen distrie the wallis of Tire, and thei schulen distrie the touris therof; and Y schal rase the dust therof fro it, and Y schal yyue it in to a `moost clere stoon.
Update Bible Version
And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock.
Webster's Bible Translation
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.
New English Translation
They will destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers. I will scrape her soil from her and make her a bare rock.
New King James Version
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.
New Living Translation
They will destroy the walls of Tyre and tear down its towers. I will scrape away its soil and make it a bare rock!
New Revised Standard
They shall destroy the walls of Tyre and break down its towers. I will scrape its soil from it and make it a bare rock.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre. And break down her towers, And I will scrape clean her dust from off her, - And make of her the glaring face of a cliff:
Douay-Rheims Bible
And they shall break down the walls of Tyre, and destroy the towers thereof: and I will scrape her dust from her, and make her like a smooth rock.
Revised Standard Version
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.
Young's Literal Translation
And they have destroyed the walls of Tyre, And they have broken down her towers, And I have scraped her dust from her, And made her for a clear place of a rock.

Contextual Overview

1 In the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, the Word of the Lord came to me saying, 2 "Son of man, Tyre has said this about Jerusalem, ‘O, the gate to the nations is broken. It has opened to me. I will do well, now that she is laid waste.' 3 So the Lord God says, ‘I am against you, O Tyre. And I will bring up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves. 4 They will destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers. Then I will clean away what is left from her and make her nothing but rock. 5 She will be a place to spread fish nets out in the sea, for I have spoken,' says the Lord God. ‘The nations will take her riches. 6 And her villages on the land across the sea from her will be destroyed by the sword. Then they will know that I am the Lord.' 7 For the Lord God says, "I will bring Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, against Tyre from the north. He will come with horses, war-wagons, horsemen, and a large army. 8 And he will kill with the sword those in your villages. He will build battle-walls around you. He will build up earth so they can go over your walls. He will build walls and make battle-coverings around you. 9 He will roll down large objects to knock down your walls, and will break down your towers with axes. 10 There will be so many horses that you will be covered by their dust. Your walls will shake at the noise of the horsemen and wheels and war-wagons, when he comes through your gates as men come into a city that has been broken open.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

destroy: Ezekiel 26:9, Isaiah 23:11, Jeremiah 5:10, Amos 1:10, Zechariah 9:3

I: Ezekiel 26:12, Leviticus 14:41-45

make: Ezekiel 24:7, Ezekiel 24:8

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 14:10 - as a man taketh Lamentations 2:13 - for Ezekiel 26:14 - like Ezekiel 27:32 - the destroyed

Cross-References

Genesis 13:16
I will make your family after you like the dust of the earth. So if anyone could number the dust of the earth, then he could number your children's children.
Genesis 15:5
He took him outside and said, "Now look up into the heavens and add up the stars, if you are able to number them." Then He said to him, "Your children and your children's children will be as many as the stars."
Genesis 15:18
The Lord made an agreement with Abram on that day. He said, "I have given this land to your children and to their children's children, from the river of Egypt as far as the big Euphrates River,
Genesis 18:18
since Abraham will become a great and powerful nation, because good will come to all the nations of the earth through him?
Genesis 26:2
The Lord showed Himself to Isaac, and said, "Do not go to Egypt. Stay in the land I will tell you about.
Genesis 26:3
Live in this land and I will be with you and bring good to you. For I will give all these lands to you and your children. I will keep the promise I made to your father Abraham.
Genesis 26:4
I will make your children and all your children's children as many as the stars of heaven. I will give these lands to them.
Genesis 26:8
When Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out of the window. And he saw Isaac loving his wife Rebekah.
Genesis 26:17
So Isaac left that place. He put up his tents in the valley of Gerar, and lived there.
Genesis 26:18
And Isaac dug again the wells of water that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham. For the Philistines had closed them up after the death of Abraham. And he gave them the same names that his father had given them.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus.... Undermining them, or breaking them down with their battering rams:

and break down her towers; with axes, Ezekiel 26:9 built upon the walls; erected for the defence of the city, and for watchmen to stand in, to look out from them for the enemy, and observe his motions, as well as for soldiers to fight from:

and I will scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock; a bare smooth rock, which has not any surface of earth upon it. So the Targum,

"I will give her for the smoothness of an open rock.''

Tyre was built upon a rock; and whereas the inhabitants had brought earth thither, and laid it upon it, in order to make gardens and orchards, and plant flowers and trees; this should be all removed, and it should become a bare rock, as it was at first. It denotes the utter destruction of it. It has its name from a word which signifies a rock;

Ezekiel 26:9- :.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 26:4. I 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.


 
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