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Ezekiel 26:9

He shall set engins of warre before hym against thy walles, & with his weapons breake downe thy towres.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Armies;   Ax;   Engine;   Nebuchadnezzar;   Thompson Chain Reference - Battering-Rams;   Engines of War;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Arms, Military;   Sieges;   Tyre;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Nineveh;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Phoenicia;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Prophet, Prophetess, Prophecy;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Repentance;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Engines;   Knife;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Engines;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ax, Ax Head;   Castle;   Ezekiel;   Sword;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Fortification and Siegecraft;   Leviticus;   Tyre;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ax, Axe;   Engines;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Assyria;   Battering ram;   Tyre;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Engine,;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Babylonish Captivity, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ax (Axe);   Engine;   Siege;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - War;  

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
He will bring the logs to break down your walls. He will use picks and break down your towers.
New Living Translation
He will pound your walls with battering rams and demolish your towers with sledgehammers.
New American Standard Bible
"And he will direct the blow of his battering rams against your walls, and he will tear down your towers with his axes.
New Century Version
He will bring logs to pound through your city walls, and he will break down your towers with his iron bars.
New English Translation
He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and tear down your towers with his weapons.
Update Bible Version
And he shall set his battering engines against your walls, and with his axes he shall break down your towers.
Webster's Bible Translation
And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.
Amplified Bible
"He will direct the [shocking] blow of his battering rams against your walls, and he will tear down your towers with his crowbars.
English Standard Version
He will direct the shock of his battering rams against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers.
World English Bible
He shall set his battering engines against your walls, and with his axes he shall break down your towers.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and he schal tempre engynes lijc vineres, and engines `that ben clepid wetheris ayens thi wallis; and he schal distrie thi touris bi his armure.
English Revised Version
And he shall set his battering engines against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.
Berean Standard Bible
He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and tear down your towers with his axes.
Contemporary English Version
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.
American Standard Version
And he shall set his battering engines against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.
Bible in Basic English
He will put up his engines of war against your walls, and your towers will be broken down by his axes.
Complete Jewish Bible
He will pound your walls with his battering-rams and break down your towers with his axes.
Darby Translation
and he shall set his engines of attack against thy walls, and with his spikes he shall break down thy towers.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And he shall set his battering engines against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.
King James Version (1611)
Hee shall set engines of warre against thy walles, and with his axes he shall breake downe thy towres.
New Life Bible
He will roll down large objects to knock down your walls, and will break down your towers with axes.
New Revised Standard
He shall direct the shock of his battering rams against your walls and break down your towers with his axes.
Geneva Bible (1587)
He shall set engins of warre before him against thy walles, and with his weapons breake downe thy towres.
George Lamsa Translation
And he shall strike the sharp points of his spears against your walls, and he shall destroy your towers with his swords.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And the stroke of his attacking-engine, will he direct against thy walls, - And thy tower., will he break down with his axes.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And he shall set engines of war and battering rams against thy walls, and shall destroy thy towers with his arms.
Revised Standard Version
He will direct the shock of his battering rams against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
He shall cast down with his swords thy walls and thy towers.
Good News Translation
They will pound in your walls with battering rams and tear down your towers with iron bars.
Christian Standard Bible®
He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and tear down your towers with his iron tools.
Hebrew Names Version
He shall set his battering engines against your walls, and with his axes he shall break down your towers.
King James Version
And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.
Lexham English Bible
and the thrust of his battering ram he will direct against your walls, and your towers he will break down with his weapons.
Literal Translation
And he will set the blow of his ram against your walls, and he will break down your towers with his axes.
Young's Literal Translation
And a battering-ram before him he placeth against thy walls, And thy towers he breaketh by his weapons.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
His slynges & batelrames shal he prepare for thy walles, & wt his weapes breake downe thy towres.
New King James Version
He will direct his battering rams against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"The blow of his battering rams he will direct against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers.
Legacy Standard Bible
The blow of his battering rams he will direct against your walls, and with his swords he will tear down your towers.

Contextual Overview

1 And it came to passe in the eleuenth yere, the first day of the moneth, the word of the Lorde came vnto me, saying: 2 Thou sonne of man, because that Tyre hath spoken vpon Hierusalem, Haha, the gates of the people is broken, it is turned vnto me, for now that she is destroyed, I shalbe filled: 3 Therfore thus sayth the Lord God, Behold O Tyre, I will vpon thee, I wil raise vp many nations against thee, like as whe the sea ariseth with his waues. 4 They shal breake the walles of Tyre, & cast downe her towres, I will scrape her dust fro her, & make her a drie rocke. 5 She shalbe for a spreading of nettes in the sea, for I haue spoken it, sayth the Lord God, and she shalbe for a spoyle to the nations. 6 Her daughters that are in the fielde shalbe slayne with the sworde, that they may knowe how that I am the Lorde. 7 For thus sayth the Lord God: Behold, I will bring vpon Tyrus, Nabuchodonozor king of Babylon from the north, a king of kinges, with horses, charets, horsemen, with a multitude, and much people. 8 Thy daughters that are in the field shal he slay with the sword: but against thee he shal make bulwarkes, & cast a mount against thee, and lift vp his speare against thee. 9 He shall set engins of warre before hym against thy walles, & with his weapons breake downe thy towres. 10 The dust of his horses shall couer thee they shalbe so many: thy walles shall shake at the noyse of the horsemen, wheeles & chariots, when he shal enter into thy gates, as into the entry of a citie broken downe.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

2 Chronicles 26:15

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 26:4 - destroy

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he shall set engines of war against thy walls,.... Which some Jewish writers understand of crossbows, out of which stones or arrows were cast; but rather, according to Kimchi and Jarchi, they were warlike machines, invented to throw large stones against the walls of a place, to beat them down. Some think they were the same with the battering rams, used in sieges for the demolishing of walls; which was a late invention of those times, Ezekiel being the first writer, it is said, that makes mention of them:

and with his axes he shall break down thy towers; the word here used signifies anything made of iron, as swords, spears, hammers, and axes; the latter, being more proper to demolish towers, is here pitched on by our translators. The Targum renders it, "with stones of iron"; that is, with iron balls cast out of their engines.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The description of the siege is that of a town invested by land.

Ezekiel 26:7

Nebuchadrezzar - Jeremiah 21:2 note.

Ezekiel 26:8

Lift up the buckler - i. e., set a wall of shields, under cover of which the walls could be approached.

Ezekiel 26:9

Engines of war - Or, his battering ram. “axes” swords. They who would break flown the towers, rush on with their swords to slay the defenders.

Ezekiel 26:11

Garrisons - pillars, on which stood statues of some protecting god. Compare 2 Kings 10:26.

Ezekiel 26:14

The siege had been on land, but the victory was to be completed by the subjection of the island-citadel.


 
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