Ezekiel 26:9
in Ezekiel 26He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and tear down your towers with his axes.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And he shall set his battering engines against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.
KJV
And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.
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This verse in Ezekiel 26
Commentary
4 notes on this verseAnd he shall set engines of war against thy walls,.... Which some Jewish writers understand of crossbows, out of which stones or arrows were cast; but rather, according to Kimchi and Jarchi, they were warlike machines, invented to throw large stones against the walls of a place, to beat them down.
This site's exposition
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings
on Ezekiel 26:7-11
The instrument is named, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings. The verses that follow describe siege engines, warfare aimed first at Tyre's mainland suburbs and gate city rather than the fortified island. Barnes notes that Ezekiel 29:18 records Nebuchadnezzar's army coming away from this siege with no wages.
This site's exposition
blows of his battering rams
Battering rams were heavy beams, often iron tipped and hung in a wheeled frame, driven against gates and walls. Assyrian reliefs show them before Ezekiel's day. The Hebrew word rendered axes is literally swords, iron tools for prying down masonry.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
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 words behind it
7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וּמְחִ֣י | umechi | and [the] blow of | H4239 → | |
| קָֽבָלּ֔וֹ | kavalo | battering-ram his | H6904 → | |
| יִתֵּ֖ן | yiten | he will set | H5414 → | 2011 times |
| בְּחֹֽמוֹתָ֑יִךְ | bechomotayikh | on walls your | H2346 → | 133 times |
| וּמִ֨גְדְּלֹתַ֔יִךְ | umigdelotayikh | and towers your | H4026 → | 48 times |
| יִתֹּ֖ץ | yitotz | he will break down | H5422 → | 42 times |
| בְּחַרְבוֹתָֽיו׃ | becharvotav | with swords his | H2719 → | 413 times |
וּמְחִ֣יand [the] blow of
umechiH4239 →
קָֽבָלּ֔וֹbattering-ram his
kavaloH6904 →
יִתֵּ֖ןhe will set
yitenH5414 →2011 times
בְּחֹֽמוֹתָ֑יִךְon walls your
bechomotayikhH2346 →133 times
וּמִ֨גְדְּלֹתַ֔יִךְand towers your
umigdelotayikhH4026 →48 times
יִתֹּ֖ץhe will break down
yitotzH5422 →42 times
בְּחַרְבוֹתָֽיו׃with swords his
becharvotavH2719 →413 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
4 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
2 Chronicles 26:15And in Jerusalem he made skillfully designed devices to shoot arrows and catapult large stones from the towers and corners. So his fame spread far and wide, for he was helped tremendously so that…
it leads to
- Matthew 4:24
News about Him spread all over Syria, and people brought to Him all who were ill with various diseases, those suffering acute pain, the demon-possessed, those having seizures, and the paralyzed—and He healed them.
- Exodus 31:4
to design artistic works in gold, silver, and bronze,
- 2 Chronicles 2:7
Send me, therefore, a craftsman skilled in engraving to work with gold and silver, with bronze and iron, and with purple, crimson, and blue yarn. He will work with my craftsmen in Judah and…
- 2 Chronicles 2:14
He is the son of a woman from the daughters of Dan, and his father is a man of Tyre. He is skilled in work with gold and silver, bronze and iron, stone and…
- Matthew 4:24
About Ezekiel
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Ezekiel; Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Ezekiel; 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.