Eze 26:3-14 | TNotes | STEP | Summary for Ezek 26:3-6: 26:3-6 The many nations with which Tyre wanted to trade would instead come against her equipped for war, and like Jerusalem, she would become plunder for their armies. • waves of the sea crashing against your shoreline: This is a particularly apt metaphor for an assault on Tyre, which lay on a small coastal island.

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‏ Ezekiel 26:3-14

Summary for Ezek 26:3-6: 26:3-6 ^a The many nations with which Tyre wanted to trade would instead come against her equipped for war, and like Jerusalem, she would become plunder for their armies.

• waves of the sea crashing against your shoreline: This is a particularly apt metaphor for an assault on Tyre, which lay on a small coastal island.
Summary for Ezek 26:7-11: 26:7-11 ^b Tyre’s projected destruction is described in great detail, conveying certainty as to the conflict’s outcome.
Summary for Ezek 26:12-14: 26:12-14 ^c The end result was exactly as the prophet had described earlier in metaphorical language. Tyre would become a bare rock, a desolate haunt for local fishermen to spread their nets to dry, instead of a bustling center for long-distance trading vessels and caravans from the east (26:2 ^d). According to Josephus, Tyre was besieged by Nebuchadnezzar for thirteen years, although it was not finally destroyed until the time of Alexander the Great (332 BC).