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against you, build a wall against you, and raise a defense against you. He will direct his battering rams against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers. Because of the abundance of his horses, their dust will cover you; your walls will shake at the noise of the horsemen, the wagons, and the chariots, when he enters your gates, as men enter a city that has been breached. With the hooves of his horses he will trample all your streets; he will slay your people by the sword, and your strong pillars will fall to the ground. They will plunder your riches and pillage your merchandise; they will break down your walls and destroy your pleasant houses; they will lay your stones, your timber, and your soil in the midst of the water.
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Ezekiel's habit of “halving” pronouncements is evident as each of these major segments divides further into two parts. A clear break occurs in the first between vv. 11 and 12 as the imagery changes from a metaphoric description of Tyre as a ship, magnificently constructed and handled by the nobility
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Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against you, as the sea causes its waves to come up. And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers; I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a
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Ezekiel chapter 27 may suggest that the Tyrians suffered heavily either during or after the siege, losing many men and luxuries to the Babylonians. Chapter 28 begins as a condemnation of the King of Tyre but later shifts to a lamentation to the King of Tyre. The last verse of the
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For thus says the Lord God: "Behold, I will bring against Tyre from the north
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses, with chariots, and with horsemen, and an army with many people. He will slay with the sword your daughter villages in the fields; he will heap up a siege mound
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The structure of chapters 26 and 27 reflect the typical
Ezekielian "halving" which is a signature of the prophet. The same pattern of a literal section followed by a lament is used in both chapters 26, 27 and in the two sections of chapter 28, verses 1-10 and 11-19. According to
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Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyrus: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled: yet had he no wages, nor his army, for Tyrus, for the service that he had served against it: (Ezekiel
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allude to the siege of Tyre. Passages in these chapters are referred to as "Proclamation
Against Tyre," "Lamentation for Tyre," "Proclamation Against the King of Tyre," "Lamentation for the King of Tyre" and "Proclamation Against Egypt".
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Tyrians negotiated a surrender with the Babylonians. Nebuchadnezzar II was never able to take control of Tyre by military means, leaving the result of the siege as militarily inconclusive. The
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Babylonians and that heavy casualties may have been suffered.
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Ezekiel, 16 years after the setting of chapter 26 and after the siege, it is stated that Nebuchadnezzar was not successful in taking New Tyre, though he did manage to subjugate them in formal terms.
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that discussed food provisions for "the king and his soldiers for their march against Tyre." Other cuneiform tablets also confirm that Tyre came under the control of
Nebuchadnezzar II at some point during his reign.
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chapter, verse 19, reads "All who knew you among the peoples are astonished at you; You have become a horror, and shall be no more forever" which may allude to the King, Ithobaal III, having been killed.
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to the fate of Tyre. Christians and Jews claim that Nebuchadnezzar would only fulfill part of this prophecy, and that the rest would be fulfilled after Alexander's siege.
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which in chapter 26 announces that the city will soon fall to the Babylonian forces, while chapter 29 states that the siege was partially unsuccessful. Only
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of surrounding nations (vv. 3b–11), to a trade list, apparently representing the ship’s varied and substantial manifest (vv. 12–25).
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326:(1.156-159). However, he dates the beginning of the siege to the 7th year of Nebuchadnezzar, which is 598/597 BC.
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Ephʿal, Israel (2003). "Nebuchadnezzar the Warrior: Remarks on his Military Achievements".
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567:References
460:(Book X).
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254:Carchemish
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