Ezekiel 26:20
in Ezekiel 26then I will bring you down with those who descend to the Pit, to the people of antiquity. I will make you dwell in the earth below like the ancient ruins, with those who descend to the Pit, so that you will no longer be inhabited or set in splendor in the land of the living.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
then will I bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, to the people of old time, and will make thee to dwell in the nether parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the living.
KJV
When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the living;
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This verse in Ezekiel 26
Commentary
12 notes on this verseA commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Even mighty Carthage used to send a yearly offering to the temple of Hercules at Tyre: and the mother city gave high priests to her colonies. Hence the consternation at her fall felt in the widely scattered dependencies with which she was so closely connected by the ties of religion, as well as commercial intercourse. shake--metaphorically: "be agitated" (Jer 49:21).
This site's exposition
raise up the deep against you
on Ezekiel 26:19-21
The last movement pictures the city sent down into the pit among the people of old time. The closing sentence is absolute, I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be no more. Keil reads the finality as prophetic certainty stated in its full and strongest form.
This site's exposition
those who descend to the Pit
The Pit, Hebrew bor, is the grave and the world of the dead, where Ezekiel sends Egypt and its allies in chapter 32. The people of antiquity are nations long dead and gone. Tyre takes its place among them.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
(Verse 19 onwards) Because this is what the Lord (the Vulgate adds God) says: When I make you a desolate city like cities that are uninhabited, and I bring an abyss upon you, and many waters cover you, and I bring you down with those who descend into the pit (or to those who descend into the grave) to the everlasting people, and I place you in the farthest land (or in the depths of the earth) like the ancient wildernesses, with those who are brought down into the pit (or descend into the grave), so that you will not be inhabited, and when I give glory in the land of the living (or so that you will not rise again in the land of the living), I will bring you to nothing (or I will give you destruction) and you will not be, and you will not be sought after (the Vulgate adds anymore) forever, says the Lord God.
The Puritans and the Awakening4 voices
With the people - Who are long since dead, and gone to eternity. The low parts - Another description of the grave, from the situation and solitude of it. Set glory - Then I will restore the beauty, strength, and wealth of Israel, and bring them back to Jerusalem.
That was a type of heaven, which is indeed the land of the living. (2.) Though this land of the living may for a time lie under disgrace, yet God will again set glory in it; the glory that had departed shall return, and the restoration of what they had been deprived of shall be so much more their glory.
She is turned - The trading interest will turn to me. Scrape - I will leave thee nothing; thou shalt be scraped, and swept, that not so much as dust shall remain in thee. Like - As bare as was the rock on which thy city is built.
When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit,....
4 more voices on this verse
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
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.
Or, she shall be in the condition of those who have been long buried, of the people of old time, who are old inhabitants of the silent grace, who are quite rotted away under ground and quite forgotten above ground; such shall Tyre be, free among the dead, set in the lower parts of the earth, humbled, mortified, reduced.
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
I shall set glory in the land--In contrast to Tyre consigned to the "pit" of death, I shall set glory (that is, My presence symbolized by the Shekinah cloud, the antitype to which shall be Messiah, "the glory as of the only-begotten of the Father," Joh 1:14;
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And I shall set glory in the land of the living - Judea so called, the land of the living God.
The words behind it
22 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְהוֹרַדְתִּיךְ֩ | vehoradtikh | and I will send down you | H3381 → | 381 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | with | H854 → | 929 times |
| י֨וֹרְדֵי | yordei | [those who] have gone down of | H3381 → | 381 times |
| ב֜וֹר | vor | [the] pit | H953 → | 66 times |
| אֶל־ | ʾel- | to | H413 → | 5510 times |
| עַ֣ם | ʾam | a people of | H5971 → | 1873 times |
| עוֹלָ֗ם | olam | antiquity | H5769 → | 438 times |
| וְ֠הוֹשַׁבְתִּיךְ | vehoshavtikh | and I will cause to dwell you | H3427 → | 1079 times |
| בְּאֶ֨רֶץ | beeretz | in [the] earth of | H776 → | 2504 times |
| תַּחְתִּיּ֜וֹת | tachtiyot | [the] lowest parts | H8482 → | 19 times |
| כָּחֳרָב֤וֹת | kochoravot | like waste places | H2723 → | 42 times |
| מֵֽעוֹלָם֙ | meolam | from long ago | H5769 → | 438 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | with | H854 → | 929 times |
| י֣וֹרְדֵי | yordei | [those who] have gone down of | H3381 → | 381 times |
| ב֔וֹר | vor | [the] pit | H953 → | 66 times |
| לְמַ֖עַן | lemaan | so that | H4616 → | 272 times |
| לֹ֣א | lo' | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| תֵשֵׁ֑בִי | teshevi | you will remain | H3427 → | 1079 times |
| וְנָתַתִּ֥י | venatati | and I will put | H5414 → | 2011 times |
| צְבִ֖י | tzevi | splendor | H6643 → | 33 times |
| בְּאֶ֥רֶץ | beeretz | in [the] land of | H776 → | 2504 times |
| חַיִּֽים׃ | chaiyim | [the] living | H2416 → | 498 times |
וְהוֹרַדְתִּיךְ֩and I will send down you
vehoradtikhH3381 →381 times
אֶת־with
ʾet-H854 →929 times
י֨וֹרְדֵי[those who] have gone down of
yordeiH3381 →381 times
ב֜וֹר[the] pit
vorH953 →66 times
אֶל־to
ʾel-H413 →5510 times
עַ֣םa people of
ʾamH5971 →1873 times
עוֹלָ֗םantiquity
olamH5769 →438 times
וְ֠הוֹשַׁבְתִּיךְand I will cause to dwell you
vehoshavtikhH3427 →1079 times
בְּאֶ֨רֶץin [the] earth of
beeretzH776 →2504 times
תַּחְתִּיּ֜וֹת[the] lowest parts
tachtiyotH8482 →19 times
כָּחֳרָב֤וֹתlike waste places
kochoravotH2723 →42 times
מֵֽעוֹלָם֙from long ago
meolamH5769 →438 times
אֶת־with
ʾet-H854 →929 times
י֣וֹרְדֵי[those who] have gone down of
yordeiH3381 →381 times
ב֔וֹר[the] pit
vorH953 →66 times
לְמַ֖עַןso that
lemaanH4616 →272 times
לֹ֣אnot
lo'H3808 →5168 times
תֵשֵׁ֑בִיyou will remain
tesheviH3427 →1079 times
וְנָתַתִּ֥יand I will put
venatatiH5414 →2011 times
צְבִ֖יsplendor
tzeviH6643 →33 times
בְּאֶ֥רֶץin [the] land of
beeretzH776 →2504 times
חַיִּֽים׃[the] living
chaiyimH2416 →498 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
Psalms 27:13Still I am certain to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
it leads to
- 2 Corinthians 4:16
Therefore we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, yet our inner self is being renewed day by day.
- Psalms 142:5
I cry to You, O LORD: “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”
- Psalms 56:3
When I am afraid, I put my trust in You.
- 2 Corinthians 4:8–14
We are hard pressed on all sides, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair;
- Psalms 31:19
How great is Your goodness which You have laid up for those who fear You, which You have bestowed before the sons of men on those who take refuge in You!
- 2 Corinthians 4:16
Through
Zechariah 2:8For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “After His Glory has sent Me against the nations that have plundered you—for whoever touches you touches the apple of His eye—
it leads to
- Psalms 17:8
Keep me as the apple of Your eye; hide me in the shadow of Your wings
- Deuteronomy 32:10
He found him in a desert land, in a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, He instructed him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye.
- John 15:21–23
But they will treat you like this because of My name, since they do not know the One who sent Me.
- Psalms 17:8
About Ezekiel
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Ezekiel; Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Ezekiel; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible; Patrick Fairbairn, An Exposition of Ezekiel and Patrick Fairbairn, Ezekiel and the Book of His Prophecy.