Ezekiel 26 Explained

Ezekiel 26 is the twenty-sixth chapter of the Book of Ezekiel in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains the prophecies attributed to the prophet/priest Ezekiel, and is one of the Books of the Prophets.

This chapter contains a "Proclamation against Tyre".[1]

Text

The original text was written in the Hebrew language. This chapter is divided into 21 verses.

Textual witnesses

Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter in Hebrew are of the Masoretic Text tradition, which includes the Codex Cairensis (895), the Petersburg Codex of the Prophets (916), Aleppo Codex (10th century), Codex Leningradensis (1008).

There is also a translation into Koine Greek known as the Septuagint, made in the last few centuries BC. Extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint version include Codex Vaticanus (B;

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B; 4th century), Codex Alexandrinus (A;

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A; 5th century) and Codex Marchalianus (Q;

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Q; 6th century).

Verse 1

And it came to pass in the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying,[2] The date corresponds to the year 586 or 585 BCE based on the analysis by German theologian Bernhard Lang.[3]

A marginal note in the Masoretic Text tradition indicates that this is the middle verse of the Book of Ezekiel in Hebrew.[4]

Verse 2

"Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, 'Aha! She is broken who was the gateway of the peoples; now she is turned over to me; I shall be filled; she is laid waste.'"[5]

Verses 17-18

And they will take up a lamentation for you, and say to you:

“How you have perished,

O one inhabited by seafaring men,

O renowned city,

Who was strong at sea,

She and her inhabitants,

Who caused their terror to be on all her inhabitants!

Now the coastlands tremble on the day of your fall;

Yes, the coastlands by the sea are troubled at your departure.”[8] A qinah or lamentation.[9]

Verse 21

"I will make you a terror, and you shall be no more; though you are sought for, you will never be found again", says the Lord God.[10] Protestant theologian Heinrich Ewald translates, "To sudden death will I bring thee", which corresponds with the margin of the Revised Version, I will make thee a destruction.[11]

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Notes and References

  1. 2 Ezekiel

    NKJV

  2. 2 Ezekiel

    NKJV

  3. Lang, Bernhard (1981) Ezechiel. Darmstadt. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesselschaft, cited in Kee et al 2008, p. 209.
  4. Book: Shepherd, Michael . A Commentary on the Book of the Twelve: The Minor Prophets . Kregel Exegetical Library . Kregel Academic . 2018 . 978-0825444593 . 23.
  5. 2 Ezekiel

    NKJV

  6. 2 Ezekiel

    HCSB

  7. The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha, Augmented Third Edition, New Revised Standard Version, Indexed. Michael D. Coogan, Marc Brettler, Carol A. Newsom, Editors. Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 2007. pp. 1216-1217 Hebrew Bible.
  8. 2 Ezekiel

    NKJV

  9. [Jerusalem Bible]
  10. 2 Ezekiel

    NKJV

  11. Ewald, H., quoted in Pulpit Commentary on Ezekiel 26, accessed 13 December 2019

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