Teks -- Ezekiel 26:4 (NET)

26:4 They will destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers. I will scrape her soil from her and make her a bare rock.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: Eze 26:4 - Scrape

I will leave thee nothing; thou shalt be scraped, and swept, that not so much as dust shall remain in thee.

Wesley: Eze 26:4 - Like

As bare as was the rock on which thy city is built.

JFB: Eze 26:3-4 - nations . . . as the sea . . . waves

In striking contrast to the boasting of Tyre, God threatens to bring against her Babylon's army levied from "many nations," even as the Mediterranean waves that dashed against her rock-founded city on all sides.

JFB: Eze 26:3-4 - scrape her dust . . . make her . . . top of . . . rock

Or, "a bare rock" [GROTIUS]. The soil which the Tyrians had brought together upon the rock on which they built their city, I will scrape so clean away as to leave no dust, but only the bare rock as it was. An awful contrast to her expectation of filling herself with all the wealth of the East now that Jerusalem has fallen.

Clarke: Eze 26:4 - I will also scrape her dust from her

I will also scrape her dust from her - I will totally destroy her fortifications, and leave her nothing but a barren rock, as she was before. This cannot refer to the capture of Tyre by Nebuchadnezzar. It flourished long after his time.

Defender: Eze 26:4 - break down her towers

Nebuchadnezzar, as here prophesied, did destroy the walls and towers of Tyre when he invaded her during the period 585-572 b.c. However, many of her people escaped to an island near the coast, where their city continued strong and prosperous for another 250 years.

Defender: Eze 26:4 - top of a rock

Alexander the Great, in expanding his Greek empire, was finally able to reach and conquer the island city of Tyre in 332 b.c., by building a causeway to it out of the ruins of the old mainland city, literally "scraping the dust" from her, leaving it "like the top of a rock.""

TSK: Eze 26:4 - destroy // I // make

destroy : Eze 26:9; Isa 23:11; Jer 5:10; Amo 1:10; Zec 9:3

I : Eze 26:12; Lev 14:41-45

make : Eze 24:7, Eze 24:8

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Eze 26:4 - Destroy // Break down // Towers // I will also scrape her dust from her // And make her like the top of a rock

Destroy batter and demolish with their mighty engines, which shall shake, disjoint, and beat down the strongest parts of their walls.

Break down undermine, that they may tumble at once, or employ hands to take them down, as men pull down buildings.

Towers watch-towers, and those that were for defence and safety of their city, which from their greatness have their name, Migdol.

I will also scrape her dust from her I will leave thee nothing, thou shalt be scraped, and brushed, and swept, that not so much as dust shall remain to thee.

And make her like the top of a rock as bare as was the rock on which thy city is built before wealth, beauty, buildings, and strength was brought to it by man’ s industry.

Haydock: Eze 26:4 - Dust

Dust. She shall be demolished, and the rubbish thrown into the sea, to make a road by which New Tyre in the island might be attacked, ver. 12. (Haydock)

Gill: Eze 26:4 - And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus // and break down her towers // and I will scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock

And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus.... Undermining them, or breaking them down with their battering rams:

and break down her towers; with axes, Eze 26:9 built upon the walls; erected for the defence of the city, and for watchmen to stand in, to look out from them for the enemy, and observe his motions, as well as for soldiers to fight from:

and I will scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock; a bare smooth rock, which has not any surface of earth upon it. So the Targum,

"I will give her for the smoothness of an open rock.''

Tyre was built upon a rock; and whereas the inhabitants had brought earth thither, and laid it upon it, in order to make gardens and orchards, and plant flowers and trees; this should be all removed, and it should become a bare rock, as it was at first. It denotes the utter destruction of it. It has its name from a word which signifies a rock; See Gill on Isa 23:1.