Ezekiel 26:14
in Ezekiel 26I will make you a bare rock, and you will become a place to spread the fishing nets. You will never be rebuilt, for I, the LORD, have spoken, declares the Lord GOD.’
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And I will make thee a bare rock; thou shalt be a place for the spreading of nets; thou shalt be built no more: for I Jehovah have spoken it, saith the Lord Jehovah.
KJV
And I will make thee like the top of a rock: thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the Lord have spoken it, saith the Lord God.
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This verse in Ezekiel 26
Commentary
6 notes on this verseThou shalt be built no more - If this refer to Nebuchadnezzar’s capture of the city, old Tyre must be intended: that was destroyed by him, and never rebuilt. But I doubt whether the whole of this prophecy do not refer to the taking of Tyre by Alexander, three hundred years after its capture by Nebuchadnezzar. Indeed it may include more recent conquests of this important city. It went through a variety of vicissitudes till 1289, when it and the neighboring towns were sacked and ravaged by the Mamelukes.
This site's exposition
silence the sound of your songs
on Ezekiel 26:13-14
The noise of thy songs to cease and the sound of thy harps silenced marks the end of Tyre's festival culture. Made like the top of a rock and built no more closes the sentence with permanence. Henry reads the silencing of music as the sharpest picture in the chapter.
This site's exposition
You will never be rebuilt
A city called Tyre still stands, so readers have taken the word that Tyre will never be rebuilt in two ways. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown apply it to old mainland Tyre, scraped to a bare rock for Alexander's causeway. Keil reads it of Tyre as the proud Phoenician power.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
And I will make thee like the top of a rock,....
The utter ruin of Tyre is here represented in very strong and lively figures, which are exceedingly affecting. See how high, how great, Tyre had been, how little likely ever to come to this. The remembrance of men's former grandeur and plenty is a great aggravation of their present disgrace and poverty.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
The insular Tyre recovered partly, after seventy years (Isa 23:17, 18), but again suffered under Alexander, then under Antigonus, then under the Saracens at the beginning of the fourteenth century. Now its harbors are choked with sand, precluding all hope of future restoration, "not one entire house is left, and only a few fishermen take shelter in the vaults" [MAUNDRELL].
The words behind it
16 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וּנְתַתִּ֞יךְ | unetatikh | and I will make you | H5414 → | 2011 times |
| לִצְחִ֣יחַ | litzchiach | into bareness of | H6706 → | 5 times |
| סֶ֗לַע | sela' | rock | H5553 → | 58 times |
| מִשְׁטַ֤ח | mishtach | a spreading place of | H4894 → | 3 times |
| חֲרָמִים֙ | charamim | nets | H2764 → | 38 times |
| תִּֽהְיֶ֔ה | tihyeh | you will be | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| לֹ֥א | lo' | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| תִבָּנֶ֖ה | tibaneh | you will be built | H1129 → | 376 times |
| ע֑וֹד | od | again | H5750 → | 490 times |
| כִּ֣י | ki | for | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| אֲנִ֤י | ʾani | I | H589 → | 874 times |
| יְהוָה֙ | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| דִּבַּ֔רְתִּי | dibarti | I have spoken | H1696 → | 1141 times |
| נְאֻ֖ם | neum | [the] utterance of | H5002 → | 376 times |
| אֲדֹנָ֥י | ʾadonai | [the] Lord | H136 → | 440 times |
| יְהוִֽה׃ ס | yahweh | Yahweh | H3069 → | 306 times |
וּנְתַתִּ֞יךְand I will make you
unetatikhH5414 →2011 times
לִצְחִ֣יחַinto bareness of
litzchiachH6706 →5 times
סֶ֗לַעrock
sela'H5553 →58 times
מִשְׁטַ֤חa spreading place of
mishtachH4894 →3 times
חֲרָמִים֙nets
charamimH2764 →38 times
תִּֽהְיֶ֔הyou will be
tihyehH1961 →3559 times
לֹ֥אnot
lo'H3808 →5168 times
תִבָּנֶ֖הyou will be built
tibanehH1129 →376 times
ע֑וֹדagain
odH5750 →490 times
כִּ֣יfor
kiH3588 →4482 times
אֲנִ֤יI
ʾaniH589 →874 times
יְהוָה֙Yahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
דִּבַּ֔רְתִּיI have spoken
dibartiH1696 →1141 times
נְאֻ֖ם[the] utterance of
neumH5002 →376 times
אֲדֹנָ֥י[the] Lord
ʾadonaiH136 →440 times
יְהוִֽה׃ סYahweh
yahwehH3069 →306 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Numbers 23:19God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?
it leads to
- 1 Samuel 15:29
Moreover, the Glory of Israel does not lie or change His mind, for He is not a man, that He should change His mind.”
- James 1:17
Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.
- Malachi 3:6
“Because I, the LORD, do not change, you descendants of Jacob have not been destroyed.
- Hebrews 6:18
Thus by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be strongly encouraged.
- Titus 1:2
in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.
- 1 Samuel 15:29
Through
Isaiah 14:27The LORD of Hosts has purposed, and who can thwart Him? His hand is outstretched, so who can turn it back?
it leads to
- Isaiah 43:13
Even from eternity I am He, and none can deliver out of My hand. When I act, who can reverse it?”
- Job 23:13
But He is unchangeable, and who can oppose Him? He does what He desires.
- 2 Chronicles 20:6
and said, “O LORD, God of our fathers, are You not the God who is in heaven, and do You not rule over all the kingdoms of the nations? Power and might are in…
- Isaiah 43:13
About Ezekiel
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Ezekiel; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset and David Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible.