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class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/bsb/ezekiel/26.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#001320" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/niv/ezekiel/26.htm">New International Version</a></span><br />He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and demolish your towers with his weapons.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/ezekiel/26.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />He will pound your walls with battering rams and demolish your towers with sledgehammers.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/ezekiel/26.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />He will direct the shock of his battering rams against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/ezekiel/26.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and tear down your towers with his axes.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/ezekiel/26.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/ezekiel/26.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />He will direct his battering rams against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/ezekiel/26.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />And he will direct the blow of his battering rams against your walls, and he will tear down your towers with his axes.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/ezekiel/26.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8220The blow of his battering rams he will direct against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/ezekiel/26.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />“And the blow of his battering rams he will direct against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/ezekiel/26.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />The blow of his battering rams he will direct against your walls, and with his swords he will tear down your towers.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/ezekiel/26.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />He will direct the [shocking] blow of his battering rams against your walls, and he will tear down your towers with his crowbars.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/ezekiel/26.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and tear down your towers with his iron tools.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/ezekiel/26.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and tear down your towers with his iron tools. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/ezekiel/26.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />And he shall set his battering engines against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/ezekiel/26.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />He will command some of his troops to use large wooden poles to beat down your walls, while others use iron rods to knock down your watchtowers. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/ezekiel/26.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />And he shall set his battering engines against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/ezekiel/26.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />He will direct his battering rams against your walls, and he will cut down your towers with his axes.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/ezekiel/26.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />They will pound in your walls with battering rams and tear down your towers with iron bars. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/ezekiel/26.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />"'He'll direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and will breach your fortified towers with axes.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/ezekiel/26.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and tear down your towers with his axes.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/ezekiel/26.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and tear down your towers with his weapons.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/ezekiel/26.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />He shall set his battering engines against your walls, and with his axes he shall break down your towers.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/ezekiel/26.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/ezekiel/26.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />He will set his battering engines against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/ezekiel/26.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />And he places a battering-ram before him against your walls, "" And he breaks your towers with his weapons.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/ezekiel/26.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And a battering-ram before him he placeth against thy walls, And thy towers he breaketh by his weapons.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/ezekiel/26.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />And he will give the stroke of his front against thy walls, and with his sword he will tear down thy towers.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/ezekiel/26.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And he shall set engines of mar and battering rams against thy walls, and shall destroy thy towers with his arms. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/ezekiel/26.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />And he will combine moveable shelters and battering rams before your walls, and he will destroy your towers with his armaments.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/ezekiel/26.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />He shall pound your walls with battering-rams and break down your towers with his axes. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/ezekiel/26.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />He shall direct the shock of his battering rams against your walls and break down your towers with his axes.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/ezekiel/26.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />And he shall strike the sharp points of his spears against your walls, and he shall destroy your towers with his swords.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/ezekiel/26.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />And he will put the points of his spears in your walls, and your towers they shall tear down with their swords<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/ezekiel/26.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />And he shall set his battering engines Against thy walls, And with his axes He shall break down thy towers.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/ezekiel/26.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />He shall cast down with his swords thy walls and thy towers.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/ezekiel/26-9.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vET3Gmwku4s?start=7490" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/ezekiel/26.htm">A Prophecy Against Tyre</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">8</span>He will slaughter the villages of your mainland with the sword; he will set up siege works against you, build a ramp to your walls, and raise his shields against you. <span class="reftext">9</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/5414.htm" title="5414: yit·tên (V-Qal-Imperf-3ms) -- To give, put, set. A primitive root; to give, used with greatest latitude of application.">He will direct</a> <a href="/hebrew/4239.htm" title="4239: ū·mə·ḥî (Conj-w:: N-msc) -- A smiting. From machah; a stroke, i.e. Battering-ram.">the blows</a> <a href="/hebrew/6904.htm" title="6904: qā·ḇāl·lōw (N-msc:: 3ms) -- Something in front, a military siege engine. From qabal in the sense of confronting; a battering-ram.">of his battering rams</a> <a href="/hebrew/2346.htm" title="2346: bə·ḥō·mō·w·ṯā·yiḵ (Prep-b:: N-fpc:: 2fs) -- A wall. Feminine active participle of an unused root apparently meaning to join; a wall of protection.">against your walls</a> <a href="/hebrew/5422.htm" title="5422: yit·tōṣ (V-Qal-Imperf-3ms) -- To pull down, break down. A primitive root; to tear down.">and tear down</a> <a href="/hebrew/4026.htm" title="4026: ū·miḡ·də·lō·ṯa·yiḵ (Conj-w:: N-mpc:: 2fs) -- A tower. Also feminine migdalah; from gadal; a tower; by analogy, a rostrum; figuratively, a bed of flowers.">your towers</a> <a href="/hebrew/2719.htm" title="2719: bə·ḥar·ḇō·w·ṯāw (Prep-b:: N-fpc:: 3ms) -- A sword. From charab; drought; also a cutting instrument, as a knife, sword, or other sharp implement.">with his axes.</a> </span><span class="reftext">10</span>His multitude of horses will cover you in their dust. When he enters your gates as an army entering a breached city, your walls will shake from the noise of cavalry, wagons, and chariots.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/23-11.htm">Isaiah 23:11</a></span><br />The LORD has stretched out His hand over the sea; He has made kingdoms tremble. He has given a command that the strongholds of Canaan be destroyed.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/50-15.htm">Jeremiah 50:15</a></span><br />Raise a war cry against her on every side! She has thrown up her hands in surrender; her towers have fallen; her walls are torn down. Since this is the vengeance of the LORD, take out your vengeance upon her; as she has done, do the same to her.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/amos/1-9.htm">Amos 1:9-10</a></span><br />This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Tyre, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they delivered up a whole congregation of exiles to Edom and broke a covenant of brotherhood. / So I will send fire upon the walls of Tyre to consume its citadels.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/zechariah/9-3.htm">Zechariah 9:3-4</a></span><br />Tyre has built herself a fortress; she has heaped up silver like dust, and gold like the dirt of the streets. / Behold, the Lord will impoverish her and cast her wealth into the sea, and she will be consumed by fire.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/14-31.htm">Isaiah 14:31</a></span><br />Wail, O gate! Cry out, O city! Melt away, all you Philistines! For a cloud of smoke comes from the north, and there are no stragglers in its ranks.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/47-4.htm">Jeremiah 47:4</a></span><br />For the day has come to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every remaining ally. Indeed, the LORD is about to destroy the Philistines, the remnant from the coasts of Caphtor.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/23-1.htm">Isaiah 23:1-18</a></span><br />This is the burden against Tyre: Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for Tyre is laid waste, without house or harbor. Word has reached them from the land of Cyprus. / Be silent, O dwellers of the coastland, you merchants of Sidon, whose traders have crossed the sea. / On the great waters came the grain of Shihor; the harvest of the Nile was the revenue of Tyre; she was the merchant of the nations. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/zephaniah/2-13.htm">Zephaniah 2:13-15</a></span><br />And He will stretch out His hand against the north and destroy Assyria; He will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as a desert. / Herds will lie down in her midst, creatures of every kind. Both the desert owl and screech owl will roost atop her pillars. Their calls will sound from the window, but desolation will lie on the threshold, for He will expose the beams of cedar. / This carefree city that dwells securely, that thinks to herself: “I am it, and there is none besides me,” what a ruin she has become, a resting place for beasts. Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/13-22.htm">Isaiah 13:22</a></span><br />Hyenas will howl in her fortresses and jackals in her luxurious palaces. Babylon’s time is at hand, and her days will not be prolonged.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/18-21.htm">Revelation 18:21-24</a></span><br />Then a mighty angel picked up a stone the size of a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying: “With such violence the great city of Babylon will be cast down, never to be seen again. / And the sound of harpists and musicians, of flute players and trumpeters, will never ring out in you again. Nor will any craftsmen of any trade be found in you again, nor the sound of a millstone be heard in you again. / The light of a lamp will never shine in you again, and the voices of a bride and bridegroom will never call out in you again. For your merchants were the great ones of the earth, because all the nations were deceived by your sorcery.” ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/18-8.htm">Revelation 18:8</a></span><br />Therefore her plagues will come in one day—death and grief and famine—and she will be consumed by fire, for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/17-16.htm">Revelation 17:16</a></span><br />And the ten horns and the beast that you saw will hate the prostitute. They will leave her desolate and naked, and they will eat her flesh and burn her with fire.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/18-2.htm">Revelation 18:2</a></span><br />And he cried out in a mighty voice: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a lair for demons and a haunt for every unclean spirit, every unclean bird, and every detestable beast.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/16-19.htm">Revelation 16:19</a></span><br />The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. And God remembered Babylon the great and gave her the cup of the wine of the fury of His wrath.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/18-10.htm">Revelation 18:10</a></span><br />In fear of her torment, they will stand at a distance and cry out: “Woe, woe to the great city, the mighty city of Babylon! For in a single hour your judgment has come.”</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">And he shall set engines of war against your walls, and with his axes he shall break down your towers.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/2_chronicles/26-15.htm">2 Chronicles 26:15</a></b></br> And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/ezekiel/24-2.htm">Attack</a> <a href="/ezekiel/9-5.htm">Axes</a> <a href="/ezekiel/21-22.htm">Battering</a> <a href="/ezekiel/24-16.htm">Blow</a> <a href="/lamentations/3-30.htm">Blows</a> <a href="/ezekiel/26-4.htm">Break</a> <a href="/lamentations/4-4.htm">Breaketh</a> <a href="/ezekiel/26-4.htm">Broken</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-39.htm">Demolish</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-25.htm">Direct</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/26-15.htm">Engines</a> <a href="/proverbs/26-24.htm">Placeth</a> <a href="/ezekiel/21-22.htm">Rams</a> <a href="/psalms/18-7.htm">Shock</a> <a href="/ezekiel/26-4.htm">Towers</a> <a href="/ezekiel/26-8.htm">Walls</a> <a href="/ezekiel/17-17.htm">War</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-24.htm">Weapons</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/ezekiel/38-11.htm">Attack</a> <a href="/1_samuel/13-20.htm">Axes</a> <a href="/isaiah/22-5.htm">Battering</a> <a href="/ezekiel/33-3.htm">Blow</a> <a href="/ezekiel/33-3.htm">Blows</a> <a href="/ezekiel/26-12.htm">Break</a> <a href="/daniel/2-40.htm">Breaketh</a> <a href="/ezekiel/26-12.htm">Broken</a> <a href="/ezekiel/26-12.htm">Demolish</a> <a href="/ezekiel/44-23.htm">Direct</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/26-15.htm">Engines</a> <a href="/genesis/21-15.htm">Placeth</a> <a href="/ezekiel/27-21.htm">Rams</a> <a href="/acts/16-26.htm">Shock</a> <a href="/ezekiel/27-11.htm">Towers</a> <a href="/ezekiel/26-10.htm">Walls</a> <a href="/ezekiel/27-10.htm">War</a> <a href="/ezekiel/32-27.htm">Weapons</a><div class="vheading2">Ezekiel 26</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ezekiel/26-1.htm">Tyrus, for insulting Jerusalem, is threatened with destruction</a></span><br><span class="reftext">7. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ezekiel/26-7.htm">The power of Nebuchadnezzar against her</a></span><br><span class="reftext">15. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ezekiel/26-15.htm">The mourning and astonishment of the sea at her fall</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <br /><br /> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/ezekiel/26.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/ezekiel/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/ezekiel/26.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div><b>He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls</b><br>This phrase refers to the siege warfare tactics common in ancient times, particularly in the Near East. Battering rams were powerful siege engines used to break through city walls, symbolizing the strength and determination of the attacking force. In the context of <a href="/ezekiel/26.htm">Ezekiel 26</a>, this prophecy is directed against the city of Tyre, a significant maritime and commercial hub. Historically, Tyre was known for its strong fortifications, making the imagery of battering rams particularly poignant. The prophecy foretells the destruction of Tyre by Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon, emphasizing the inevitability of divine judgment against the city for its pride and opposition to God's people. This imagery also connects to other biblical accounts of sieges, such as the fall of Jericho in <a href="/joshua/6.htm">Joshua 6</a>, where divine intervention led to the collapse of the city's walls.<p><b>and tear down your towers with his axes</b><br>The mention of towers highlights the defensive structures that were integral to ancient city fortifications. Towers provided vantage points for defenders and were often the last line of defense during a siege. The use of axes to tear down these towers indicates a thorough and relentless assault, leaving no part of the city's defenses intact. This reflects the totality of the judgment pronounced by God through Ezekiel. Historically, the destruction of Tyre's towers would have been a significant blow to its military and symbolic strength. Theologically, this act of tearing down can be seen as a metaphor for God's ability to humble the proud and dismantle human arrogance, as seen in other scriptures like <a href="/isaiah/2-12.htm">Isaiah 2:12-17</a>, where the Lord is described as bringing low the haughty and exalting Himself alone. This phrase also foreshadows the ultimate victory of Christ, who will dismantle all earthly powers and establish His eternal kingdom, as prophesied in <a href="/revelation/11-15.htm">Revelation 11:15</a>.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/e/ezekiel.htm">Ezekiel</a></b><br>A prophet of God who ministered to the Israelites during their Babylonian exile. He conveyed God's messages of judgment and restoration.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/t/tyre.htm">Tyre</a></b><br>An ancient and prosperous Phoenician city located on the Mediterranean coast. Known for its wealth and strong fortifications, Tyre was a significant trade hub.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/n/nebuchadnezzar.htm">Nebuchadnezzar</a></b><br>The king of Babylon who led the siege against Tyre. He is often used by God as an instrument of judgment against nations.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/b/battering_rams.htm">Battering Rams</a></b><br>Siege weapons used in ancient warfare to break through city walls. Symbolically, they represent the relentless force of God's judgment.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/t/towers.htm">Towers</a></b><br>Defensive structures in city walls. Their destruction signifies the complete overthrow of Tyre's defenses and pride.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/g/god's_sovereignty_in_judgment.htm">God's Sovereignty in Judgment</a></b><br>God uses nations and leaders as instruments of His will, demonstrating His control over history and events.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_consequences_of_pride.htm">The Consequences of Pride</a></b><br>Tyre's downfall serves as a warning against pride and self-reliance. God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_certainty_of_god's_word.htm">The Certainty of God's Word</a></b><br>Prophecies, like those against Tyre, affirm the reliability and truth of God's Word. What He declares will come to pass.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_repentance.htm">The Importance of Repentance</a></b><br>The judgment on Tyre underscores the need for repentance and turning back to God to avoid similar consequences.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_transience_of_earthly_wealth_and_power.htm">The Transience of Earthly Wealth and Power</a></b><br>Tyre's wealth and fortifications could not save it from destruction, reminding us to place our trust in eternal, not temporal, things.<a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/ezekiel/26.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(9) <span class= "bld">Engines of war.</span>--This is now generally understood to mean <span class= "ital">battering-rams, </span>although the word is a different one from that used in <a href="/ezekiel/4-2.htm" title="And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about.">Ezekiel 4:2</a>; <a href="/ezekiel/21-22.htm" title="At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast a mount, and to build a fort.">Ezekiel 21:22</a>. There are two words here which may form one compound word.<p><span class= "bld">Axes </span>in the original is <span class= "ital">swords. </span>It may either be used, the specific for the general, swords for all instruments of war; or it may be a poetic hyperbole, to express the power of the swords of Nebuchadnezzar's army--they shall even break down the towers.<p><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/ezekiel/26-9.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">He will direct</span><br /><span class="heb">יִתֵּ֖ן</span> <span class="translit">(yit·tên)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5414.htm">Strong's 5414: </a> </span><span class="str2">To give, put, set</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the blows</span><br /><span class="heb">וּמְחִ֣י</span> <span class="translit">(ū·mə·ḥî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4239.htm">Strong's 4239: </a> </span><span class="str2">A stroke, battering-ram</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of his battering rams</span><br /><span class="heb">קָֽבָלּ֔וֹ</span> <span class="translit">(qā·ḇāl·lōw)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6904.htm">Strong's 6904: </a> </span><span class="str2">Something in front, a military siege engine</span><br /><br /><span class="word">against your walls</span><br /><span class="heb">בְּחֹֽמוֹתָ֑יִךְ</span> <span class="translit">(bə·ḥō·mō·w·ṯā·yiḵ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b | Noun - feminine plural construct | second person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2346.htm">Strong's 2346: </a> </span><span class="str2">A wall of protection</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and tear down</span><br /><span class="heb">יִתֹּ֖ץ</span> <span class="translit">(yit·tōṣ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5422.htm">Strong's 5422: </a> </span><span class="str2">To pull down, break down</span><br /><br /><span class="word">your towers</span><br /><span class="heb">וּמִ֨גְדְּלֹתַ֔יִךְ</span> <span class="translit">(ū·miḡ·də·lō·ṯa·yiḵ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | second person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4026.htm">Strong's 4026: </a> </span><span class="str2">A tower, a rostrum, a, bed of flowers</span><br /><br /><span class="word">with his axes.</span><br /><span class="heb">בְּחַרְבוֹתָֽיו׃</span> <span class="translit">(bə·ḥar·ḇō·w·ṯāw)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b | Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2719.htm">Strong's 2719: </a> </span><span class="str2">Drought, a cutting instrument, as a, knife, sword</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/ezekiel/26-9.htm">Ezekiel 26:9 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/ezekiel/26-9.htm">Ezekiel 26:9 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/ezekiel/26-9.htm">Ezekiel 26:9 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/ezekiel/26-9.htm">Ezekiel 26:9 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/ezekiel/26-9.htm">Ezekiel 26:9 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/ezekiel/26-9.htm">Ezekiel 26:9 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/ezekiel/26-9.htm">Ezekiel 26:9 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/ezekiel/26-9.htm">Ezekiel 26:9 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/ezekiel/26-9.htm">Ezekiel 26:9 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/ezekiel/26-9.htm">Ezekiel 26:9 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/ezekiel/26-9.htm">OT Prophets: Ezekiel 26:9 He shall set his battering engines against (Ezek. 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