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Webster's Bible Translation

Ezekiel 26:4

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.

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.
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 Life Bible
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.
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 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first [day] of the month, [that] the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 Son of man, because that Tyre hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken [that was] the gates of the people: she is turned to me: I shall be replenished, [now] she is laid waste: 3 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I [am] against thee, O Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth its waves to come up. 4 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. 5 It shall be [a place for] the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea: for I have spoken [it], saith the Lord GOD: and it shall become a spoil to the nations. 6 And her daughters who [are] in the field shall be slain by the sword; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD. 7 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring upon Tyre Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and much people. 8 He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field: and he shall make a fort against thee, and cast a mount against thee, and lift up the buckler against thee. 9 And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers. 10 By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, as men enter into a city in which is made a breach.

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
And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, [then] shall thy seed also be numbered.
Genesis 15:5
And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now towards heaven, and tell the stars, if thou art able to number them: and he said to him, So shall thy seed be.
Genesis 15:18
In that same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, To thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:
Genesis 18:18
Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
Genesis 26:2
And the LORD appeared to him, and said, Go not down into Egypt: dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of.
Genesis 26:3
Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee: for to thee, and to thy seed I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I swore to Abraham thy father;
Genesis 26:4
And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give to thy seed all these countries: and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed:
Genesis 26:8
And it came to pass when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and behold, Isaac [was] sporting with Rebekah his wife.
Genesis 26:17
And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
Genesis 26:18
And Isaac digged again the wells of water which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called 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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