EZEKIEL CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX. PROPHET - DATE JONAH(825-785BC)? JOEL(800BC)? HOSEA(785-725BC)?...

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EZEKIEL CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX

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EZEKIEL CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX

PROPHET - DATE

JONAH (825-785BC)?

JOEL (800BC)?

HOSEA (785-725BC)?

MICAH (785-710BC)?

AMOS (784BC)?

ISAIAH (701-681BC)?

NAHUM (700BC)?

ZEPHANIAH (630BC)?

JEREMIAH (629-588BC)?

DANIEL (606-534BC)?

HABAKKUK (598BC)?

EZEKIEL (597-573BC)?

OBADIAH (588-562BC)?

EZRA (536-456BC)?

HAGGAI (532-512BC)?

ZECHARIAH (520-475BC)?

ESTHER (485-465BC)?

NEHEMIAH (465-424BC)?

MALACHI (420-397BC)?

KING / EVENT - DATE

TIGLATH-PILESER (745-727BC)?

HEZEKIAH (JUDAH) (726-698BC)?

SHALMANESER (727-722BC)?

ISRAEL TAKEN CAPTIVE (722BC)?

SENNACHERIB (705-681BC)?

NEBUCHADNEZZAR (605-562BC)?

ZEDEKIAH (JUDAH) (597-586BC)?

JUDAH TAKEN CAPTIVE (586BC)?

BELSHAZZAR (541-523BC)?

CYRUS (559-529BC)?

BABYLON DESTROYED (536BC)?

DARIUS (511-475BC)?

OUTLINE EZEKIEL CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX

TYRE MEANS - A ROCK

TYRE INSULTS JERUSALEM V. 1-2

DESTRUCTION OF TYRE V. 3-6

TYRE BECOMES A BARE ROCK V. 7-14

TYRE IS BURIED IN THE SEA V. 15-21

READ: EZEKIEL 26:1-2

PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE

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 "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.'

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 26:1-2

PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE

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 "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.'

WHEN DID THE LORD SPEAK TO EZEKIEL?

‘in the eleventh year, on the first day of the month’

(of the reign of Zedekiah – 18 JULY 586 B.C.)?

WHY IS THE LORD DOING THIS?

‘because Tyre has said against Jerusalem’

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 26:1

WHEN DID ALL THESE THINGS COME TO PASS?

‘in the eleventh year, on the first day of the month’

(of the reign of Zedekiah – 18 JULY 586 B.C.)?

READ: JEREMIAH 52:4-5

4 Now it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem and encamped against it; and they built a siege wall against it all around.

5 So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 26:1

WHEN DID ALL THESE THINGS COME TO PASS?

‘in the eleventh year, on the first day of the month’

(of the reign of Zedekiah – 18 JULY 586 B.C.)?

READ: JEREMIAH 52:12-13

12 Now in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month (which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, who served the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.

13 He burned the house of the LORD and the king's house; all the houses of Jerusalem, that is, all the houses of the great, he burned with fire. NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 26:2WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT TYRE?

WHAT LAND WAS GIVEN TO THE TRIBE OF ASHER?

READ: JOSHUA 19:24-2924 The fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families. 28 including Ebron, Rehob, Hammon, and Kanah, as far as Greater Sidon. 29 And the border turned to Ramah and to the fortified city of Tyre; then the border turned to Hosah, and ended at the sea by the region of Achzib. NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 26:2WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT TYRE?

WHO WAS THE KING OF TYRE? HIRAM ?

WHAT DID THE KING OF TYRE DO? WHY?READ: 2 SAMUEL 5:11

11 Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and carpenters and masons. And they built David a house. (1 CHRONICLES 14:1)

READ: 1 KINGS 5:11 Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon, because he heard that they had anointed him king in place of his father, for Hiram had always loved David.

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 26:2WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT TYRE?

WHAT DID DAVID DO?

WHERE DID DAVID GET THE CEDAR?READ: 1 CHRONICLES 22:2-4

2 David commanded to gather the aliens who were in the land of Israel; and he appointed masons to cut hewn stones to build the house of God. 3 And David prepared iron in abundance for the nails of the doors of the gates and for the joints, and bronze in abundance beyond measure, 4 and cedar trees in abundance; for the Sidonians and those from Tyre brought much cedar wood to David.

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 26:2WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT TYRE?

WHAT DID SOLOMON SAY TO HIRAM?READ: 2 CHRONICLES 2:3-4

3 Solomon sent to Hiram king of Tyre , saying: As you have dealt with David my father, and sent him cedars to build himself a house to dwell in, so deal with me.

HOW DID HIRAM RESPOND?READ: 2 CHRONICLES 2:11-12

11 Hiram king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon: Because the LORD loves His people, He has made you king over them.12 Hiram also said: Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who made heaven and earth, for He has given King David a wise son, endowed with prudence and understanding, who will build a temple for the LORD and a royal house for himself! NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 26:2WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT TYRE?

WHO DID HIRAM SEND TO SOLOMON? WHY?READ: 2 CHRONICLES 2:13-14

13 I have sent a skillful man, endowed with understanding, Huram my master craftsman, 14 (the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre), skilled to work in gold and silver, bronze and iron, stone and wood, purple and blue, fine linen and crimson, and to make any engraving and to accomplish any plan which may be given to him, with your skillful men and with the skillful men of my lord David your father. (1 KINGS 7:13-14)

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 26:2WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT TYRE?

WHAT DID HIRAM DO FOR SOLOMON?HOW DID SOLOMON REPAY HIRAM?

READ: 1 KINGS 9:11-1411 Hiram, king of Tyre, supplied Solomon with cedar and cypress and gold, as much as he desired. Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee. 12 Then Hiram went from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him, but they did not please him. 13 He said, "What kind of cities are these which you have given me, my brother?" He called them the land of Cabul, as they are to this day. 14 Then Hiram sent the king 120 talents of gold. NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 26:2WHAT NATIONS WILL THE LORD JUDGE?

ALL THE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD?READ: JEREMIAH 25:18-25

18 Jerusalem and the cities of Judah ….19 Pharaoh king of Egypt …. and all his people; 20 all the kings of the land of Uz, and

all the kings of the land of the Philistines….21 Edom, Moab, and the people of Ammon; 22 all the kings of Tyre , all the kings of Sidon,

and the kings of the coastlands …. 23 Dedan, Tema, Buz ….24 all the kings of Arabia and

all the kings of the desert; 25 all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of Elam,

and all the kings of the Medes ….

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 26:2WHAT NATIONS DID GOD GIVE TO NEBUCHADNEZZAR?

ALL THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD?READ: JEREMIAH 27:3-6

3 Send to the king of Edom, the king of Moab, the king of the Ammonites, the king of Tyre, and the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messengers who come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah. 4 And command them to say to their masters, "Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel — ….5 'I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are on the ground, by My great power and by My outstretched arm, and have given it to whom it seemed proper to Me. 6 And now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant; and the beasts of the field I have also given him to serve him.

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 26:2WHAT NATIONS CAME AGAINST THE LORD? WHY?

READ: PSALMS 83:3-83 They have taken crafty counsel against Your people, And consulted together against Your sheltered ones. 4 They have said, "Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more." 5 They have consulted together with one consent; They form a confederacy against You: 6 The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab and the Hagrites; 7 Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre; 8 Assyria also has joined with them; They have helped the children of Lot. NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 26:2WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT TYRE?

WHAT DID THE CHILDREN OF ISREAL DO?READ: EZRA 3:6-7

7 They gave money to the masons and carpenters, and food, drink, and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre to bring cedar logs from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, according to the permission which they had from Cyrus king of Persia. NKJV

WHY WAS NEHEMIAH UPSET WITH THE MEN OF TYRE?READ: NEHEMIAH 13:16

16 Men of Tyre dwelt there also, who brought in fish and all kinds of goods, and sold them on the Sabbath to the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem. NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 26:2WHAT DID JESUS SAY ABOUT TYRE & SIDON?

READ: MATTHEW 11:21-22 21 Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works which were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. 22 But I say to you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment than for you. NKJV

(LUKE 10:13-15)

WHAT PEOPLE CAME TO JESUS? WHY?READ: LUKE 6:17-18

17 He came down with them and stood on a level place with a crowd of His disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and from the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear Him and be healed of their diseases, NKJV

(MATTHEW 12:15-21 & MARK 3:7-12)

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 26:2WHAT DID THE PEOPLE OF TYRE & SIDON DO?

WHY?READ: ACTS 12:20

20 Herod had been very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon; but they came to him with one accord, and having made Blastus the king's personal aide their friend, they asked for peace, because their country was supplied with food by the king's country. NKJV

WHY DID PAUL STOP AT TYRE?READ: ACTS 21:3-11

3 When we had sighted Cyprus, we passed it on the left, sailed to Syria, and landed at Tyre ; for there the ship was to unload her cargo. 4 And finding disciples, we stayed there seven days. They told Paul through the Spirit not to go up to Jerusalem. NKJV

READ: EZEKIEL 26:3-4

PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE

3 "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.

4 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 rock.

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 26:3-4

PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE

3 "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.

4 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 rock.

WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO TYRE? WHY?

WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO TYRE? WHY?

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 26:33 "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.

WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO TYRE? WHY?

READ: ISAIAH 23:11 Wail, you ships of Tarshish! For it is laid waste,So that there is no house, no harbor; From the land of Cyprus it is revealed to them. NKJV

READ: ISAIAH 5:3030 In that day they will roar against them Like the roaring of the sea. And if one looks to the land, Behold, darkness and sorrow; And the light is darkened by the clouds. NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 26:44 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 rock.

TYRE = ROCK

WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO TYRE? WHY?

READ: AMOS 1:9-109 Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Tyre , and for four, I will not turn away its punishment,Because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom,And did not remember the covenant of brotherhood. 10 But I will send a fire upon the wall of Tyre, Which shall devour its palaces." NKJV

READ: EZEKIEL 26:5-6

PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE

5 It shall be a place for spreading nets in the midst of the sea, for I have spoken,' says the Lord GOD; 'it shall become plunder for the nations.

6 Also her daughter villages which are in the fields shall be slain by the sword. Then they shall know that I am the LORD.'

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 26:5-6

PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE

5 It shall be a place for spreading nets in the midst of the sea, for I have spoken,' says the Lord GOD; 'it shall become plunder for the nations.

6 Also her daughter villages which are in the fields shall be slain by the sword. Then they shall know that I am the LORD.'

WHAT WILL BECOME OF TYRE?

WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO TYRE’S VILLAGES?

WHY?

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 26:5-6WHAT WILL BECOME OF TYRE?

WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO TYRE’S VILLAGES?WHY?

READ: JOEL 3:4-64 What have you to do with Me, Tyre and Sidon, and all the coasts of Philistia? Will you retaliate against Me? But if you retaliate against Me, Swiftly and speedily I will return your retaliation upon your own head; 5 Because you have taken My silver and My gold,And have carried into your temples My prized possessions. 6 Also the people of Judah and the people of Jerusalem You have sold to the Greeks, That you may remove them far from their borders. NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 26:5-6

WHAT WILL BECOME OF TYRE?

WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO TYRE’S VILLAGES?

READ: ZECHARIAH 9:1-4

1 The burden of the word of the LORD Against the land of Hadrach, And Damascus its resting place. For the eyes of men And all the tribes of Israel Are on the LORD.

2 Also against Hamath, which borders on it, And against Tyre and Sidon, though they are very wise.

3 For Tyre built herself a tower, Heaped up silver like the dust, And gold like the mire of the streets.

4 Behold, the LORD will cast her out; He will destroy her power in the sea, And she will be devoured by fire.

READ: EZEKIEL 26:7-9

PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE

7 "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.

8 He will slay with the sword your daughter villages in the fields; he will heap up a siege mound against you, build a wall against you, and raise a defense against you.

9 He will direct his battering rams against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers.

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 26:7-9

PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE

7 "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.

8 He will slay with the sword your daughter villages in the fields; he will heap up a siege mound against you, build a wall against you, and raise a defense against you.

9 He will direct his battering rams against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers.

WHO WILL THE LORD BRING AGAINST TYRE?

WHY IS HE CALLED ‘king of kings’?

WHAT WILL NEBUCHADNEZZAR DO?

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 26:77 "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.

WHO WILL THE LORD BRING AGAINST TYRE?

WHY IS HE CALLED ‘king of kings’?

HOW DID THE RABSHAKEH REFER TO HIM?

READ: 2 KINGS 18:28-2928 The Rabshakeh stood and called out with a loud voice in Hebrew, and spoke, saying, "Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria! NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 26:77 "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.

WHY IS HE CALLED ‘king of kings’?

WHAT DID DANIEL SAY TO NEBUCHADNEZZAR?READ: DANIEL 2:37

37 You, O king, are a king of kings. For the God of heaven has given you a kingdom, power, strength, and glory; NKJV

WHAT DID NEBUCHADNEZZAR SAY TO DANIEL?READ: DANIEL 2:47

47 The king answered Daniel, and said, "Truly your God is the God of gods, the Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, since you could reveal this secret." NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 26:7WHO WILL THE LORD BRING AGAINST TYRE?

Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon

WHAT DID THE LORD SAY ABOUT HIM?

READ: JEREMIAH 27:5-85 I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are on the ground, by My great power and by My outstretched arm, and have given it to whom it seemed proper to Me. 6 And now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant; and the beasts of the field I have also given him to serve him.7 So all nations shall serve him and his son and his son's son, until the time of his land comes; and then many nations and great kings shall make him serve them.

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 26:7WHO IS THE ONLY TRUE ‘King of kings’?

WHAT DID PAUL WRITE TO TIMOTHY?

READ: 1 TIMOTHY 6:13-1513 I urge you in the sight of God who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus who witnessed the good confession before Pontius Pilate, 14 that you keep this commandment without spot, blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ's appearing, 15 which He will manifest in His own time, He who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords.

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 26:7WHO IS THE ONLY TRUE ‘King of kings’?

WHAT DID JOHN SAY ABOUT CHRIST?

READ: REVELATION 17:1414 These will make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for He is Lord of lords and King of kings; and those who are with Him are called, chosen, and faithful. NKJV

READ: REVELATION 19:1616 And He has on His robe and on His thigh a name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS. NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 26:8-9PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE

8 He will slay with the sword your daughter villages in the fields; he will heap up a siege mound against you, build a wall against you, and raise a defense against you. 9 He will direct his battering rams against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers.

WHO WILL THE LORD BRING AGAINST TYRE?WHAT WILL NEBUCHADNEZZAR DO?

HOW DID HE DESTROY JERUSALEM?He will slay with the sword your villages in the fields;

He will heap up a siege mound 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.

READ: EZEKIEL 26:10-12

PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE

10 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.

11 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.

12 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.

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 26:10-12PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE

10 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. 11 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. 12 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.

WHO WILL THE LORD BRING AGAINST TYRE?WHAT WILL THEY DO?

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 26:10PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE

10 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.

WHO WILL THE LORD BRING AGAINST TYRE?

WHAT WILL THEY DO?READ: JEREMIAH 4:13

13 "Behold, he shall come up like clouds, And his chariots like a whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us, for we are plundered!" NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 26:11PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE

11 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.

WHO WILL THE LORD BRING AGAINST TYRE?

HOW DID THE LORD DESCRIBE THEM?READ: ISAIAH 5:27-28

27 No one will be weary or stumble among them, No one will slumber or sleep; Nor will the belt on their loins be loosed, Nor the strap of their sandals be broken; 28 Whose arrows are sharp, And all their bows bent;Their horses' hooves will seem like flint, And their wheels like a whirlwind. NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 26:12PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE

12 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.

WHO WILL BRING JUDGMENT ON TYRE? WHY?

READ: ISAIAH 23:8-98 Who has taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, Whose merchants are princes, Whose traders are the honorable of the earth? 9 The LORD of hosts has purposed it, To bring to dishonor the pride of all glory, To bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth. NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 26:12PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE

12 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.

WHO WILL BRING JUDGMENT ON TYRE? WHY?

READ: ISAIAH 26:55 He brings down those who dwell on high, The lofty city; He lays it low, He lays it low to the ground, He brings it down to the dust. NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 26:12PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE

12 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.

WHO WILL THE LORD BRING AGAINST TYRE?WHAT WILL THEY DO?

READ: HABAKKUK 1:6-86 For indeed I am raising up the Chaldeans, A bitter and hasty nation Which marches through the breadth of the earth, To possess dwelling places that are not theirs. 7 They are terrible and dreadful; Their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves. 8 Their horses also are swifter than leopards, And more fierce than evening wolves. Their chargers charge ahead; Their cavalry comes from afar; They fly as the eagle that hastens to eat. NKJV

READ: EZEKIEL 26:13-14

PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE

13 I will put an end to the sound of your songs, and the sound of your harps shall be heard no more.

14 I will make you like the top of a rock; you shall be a place for spreading nets, and you shall never be rebuilt, for I the LORD have spoken,' says the Lord GOD.

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 26:13-14

PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE

13 I will put an end to the sound of your songs, and the sound of your harps shall be heard no more.

14 I will make you like the top of a rock; you shall be a place for spreading nets, and you shall never be rebuilt, for I the LORD have spoken,' says the Lord GOD.

WHAT WILL THE LORD PUT AN END TO?

WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO TYRE?

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 26:13PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE

13 I will put an end to the sound of your songs, and the sound of your harps shall be heard no more.

WHAT WILL THE LORD PUT AN END TO?

READ: ISAIAH 14:1111 Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, And the sound of your stringed instruments; The maggot is spread under you, And worms cover you.' NKJV

READ: ISAIAH 24:88 The mirth of the tambourine ceases, The noise of the jubilant ends, The joy of the harp ceases. NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 26:13PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE

13 I will put an end to the sound of your songs, and the sound of your harps shall be heard no more.

WHAT WILL THE LORD PUT AN END TO?READ: JEREMIAH 16:9

9 For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Behold, I will cause to cease from this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride. NKJV

READ: JEREMIAH 25:1010 Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp. NKJV

READ: EZEKIEL 26:15-16

PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE

15 "Thus says the Lord GOD to Tyre: 'Will the coastlands not shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded cry, when slaughter is made in the midst of you?

16 Then all the princes of the sea will come down from their thrones, lay aside their robes, and take off their embroidered garments; they will clothe themselves with trembling; they will sit on the ground, tremble every moment, and be astonished at you.

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 26:15-16PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE

15 "Thus says the Lord GOD to Tyre: 'Will the coastlands not shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded cry, when slaughter is made in the midst of you? 16 Then all the princes of the sea will come down from their thrones, lay aside their robes, and take off their embroidered garments; they will clothe themselves with trembling; they will sit on the ground, tremble every moment, and be astonished at you.

WHAT DID THE LORD ASK TYRE?HOW DID THE COASTLANDS RESPOND?

WHO ARE THE PRINCES OF TYRE?WHAT WILL THE PRINCES OF TYRE DO?

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 26:15PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE

15 "Thus says the Lord GOD to Tyre: 'Will the coastlands not shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded cry, when slaughter is made in the midst of you?

WHAT DID THE LORD ASK TYRE?

HOW DID THE COASTLANDS RESPOND?

READ: JEREMIAH 49:2121 The earth shakes at the noise of their fall; At the cry its noise is heard at the Red Sea. NKJV

READ: ISAIAH 41:55 The coastlands saw it and feared, The ends of the earth were afraid; They drew near and came. NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 26:16PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE

16 Then all the princes of the sea will come down from their thrones, lay aside their robes, and take off their embroidered garments; they will clothe themselves with trembling; they will sit on the ground, tremble every moment, and be astonished at you.

WHAT WILL THE PRINCES OF TYRE DO?

WHO ARE THE PRINCES OF TYRE?

READ: ISAIAH 23:88 Who has taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, Whose merchants are princes, Whose traders are the honorable of the earth? NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 26:16PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE

16 Then all the princes of the sea will come down from their thrones, lay aside their robes, and take off their embroidered garments; they will clothe themselves with trembling; they will sit on the ground, tremble every moment, and be astonished at you.

WHAT WILL THE PRINCES OF TYRE DO?

WHAT DID JOB’S FRIENDS DO? WHY?

READ: JOB 2:1313 They sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great. NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 26:16PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE

16 Then all the princes of the sea will come down from their thrones, lay aside their robes, and take off their embroidered garments; they will clothe themselves with trembling; they will sit on the ground, tremble every moment, and be astonished at you.

WHAT WILL THE PRINCES OF TYRE DO?WHY?

READ: EZEKIEL 7:2727 ‘The king will mourn, The prince will be clothed with desolation, And the hands of the common people will tremble. I will do to them according to their way, And according to what they deserve I will judge them; Then they shall know that I am the LORD!' NKJV

READ: EZEKIEL 26:17-18

PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE

17 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!

18 Now the coastlands tremble on the day of your fall;

Yes, the coastlands by the sea are troubled at your departure."'

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 26:17-18

PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE

17 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!

18 Now the coastlands tremble on the day of your fall;

Yes, the coastlands by the sea are troubled at your departure."'

WHAT WILL THEIR PRINCES SAY?

WHY DID THE CITIES OF THE COASTLANDS TREMBLE?

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 26:17PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE

17 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!

WHAT DID THE LORD TELL ISRAEL TO DO?WHY?

READ: EZEKIEL 19:11 Take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel.

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 26:17PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE

17 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!

WHAT WILL THEIR PRINCES SAY?

WHAT DID THE LORD SAY ABOUT LUCIFER?WHY?

READ: EZEKIEL 14:1212 How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, You who weakened the nations! NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 26:18PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE

18 Now the coastlands tremble on the day of your fall;Yes, the coastlands by the sea are troubled at your departure."'

WHY DID THE CITIES OF THE COASTLANDS TREMBLE?

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE LORD SPEAKS?

READ: PSALMS 46:66 The nations raged, the kingdoms were moved; He uttered His voice, the earth melted. NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 26:18PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE

18 Now the coastlands tremble on the day of your fall;Yes, the coastlands by the sea are troubled at your departure."'

WHY DID THE CITIES OF THE COASTLANDS TREMBLE?

WHAT DID THE LORD SAY?

READ: ISAIAH 23:5-65 When the report reaches Egypt, They also will be in agony at the report of Tyre.6 Cross over to Tarshish; Wail, you inhabitants of the coastland! NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 26:1818 Now the coastlands tremble on the day of your fall;Yes, the coastlands by the sea are troubled at your departure."'

WHY DID THE CITIES OF THE COASTLANDS TREMBLE?READ: ISAIAH 23:11-12

11 He stretched out His hand over the sea, He shook the kingdoms; The LORD has given a commandment against Canaan To destroy its strongholds. 12 And He said, "You will rejoice no more, O you oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon. Arise, cross over to Cyprus; There also you will have no rest.” NKJV

READ: ISAIAH 41:55 The coastlands saw it and feared, The ends of the earth were afraid; They drew near and came. NKJV

READ: EZEKIEL 26:19-21

PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE

19 "For thus says the Lord GOD: 'When I make you a desolate city, like cities that are not inhabited, when I bring the deep upon you, and great waters cover you,

20 then I will bring you down with those who descend into the Pit, to the people of old, and I will make you dwell in the lowest part of the earth, in places desolate from antiquity, with those who go down to the Pit, so that you may never be inhabited; and I shall establish glory in the land of the living.

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." NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 26:19-21

PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE

19 "For thus says the Lord GOD: 'When I make you a desolate city, like cities that are not inhabited, when I bring the deep upon you, and great waters cover you,

20 then I will bring you down with those who descend into the Pit, to the people of old, and I will make you dwell in the lowest part of the earth, in places desolate from antiquity, with those who go down to the Pit, so that you may never be inhabited; and I shall establish glory in the land of the living.

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." NKJV

WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO TYRE?

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 26:19PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE

19 "For thus says the Lord GOD: 'When I make you a desolate city, like cities that are not inhabited, when I bring the deep upon you, and great waters cover you,

WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO TYRE? WHY?

WHAT DID THE LORD DO IN THE DAYS OF NOAH?WHY?

READ: GENESIS 7:11-1211 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. 12 And the rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights. NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 26:19PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE

19 "For thus says the Lord GOD: 'When I make you a desolate city, like cities that are not inhabited, when I bring the deep upon you, and great waters cover you,

WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO TYRE? WHY?

WHAT WILL THE KING OF ASSYRIA DO?READ: ISAIAH 8:7-8

7 Now therefore, behold, the Lord brings up over them The waters of the River, strong and mighty —The king of Assyria and all his glory; He will go up over all his channels And go over all his banks. 8 He will pass through Judah, He will overflow and pass over, He will reach up to the neck; And the stretching out of his wings Will fill the breadth of Your land, O Immanuel. NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 26:2020 then I will bring you down with those who descend into the Pit, to the people of old, and I will make you dwell in the lowest part of the earth, in places desolate from antiquity, with those who go down to the Pit, so that you may never be inhabited; and I shall establish glory in the land of the living.

WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO TYRE? WHY?WHAT IS THE PIT? SHEOL?

WHAT DID MOSES SAY ABOUT THE PIT?READ: NUMBERS 16:30

30 But if the LORD creates a new thing, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into the pit, then you will understand that these men have rejected the LORD." NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 26:20WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO TYRE? WHY?

WHAT IS THE PIT? SHEOL?

WHAT DID THE PSALMIST SAY ABOUT THE PIT?

READ: PSALMS 28:11 To You I will cry, O LORD my Rock: Do not be silent to me, Lest, if You are silent to me, I become like those who go down to the pit. NKJV

READ: PSALMS 88:6-76 You have laid me in the lowest pit, In darkness, in the depths. 7 Your wrath lies heavy upon me, And You have afflicted me with all Your waves. NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 26:2020 then I will bring you down with those who descend into the Pit, to the people of old, and I will make you dwell in the lowest part of the earth, in places desolate from antiquity, with those who go down to the Pit, so that you may never be inhabited; and I shall establish glory in the land of the living.

WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO TYRE? WHY?WHAT IS THE PIT? SHEOL?READ: ISAIAH 14:9-11

9 Hell from beneath is excited about you, To meet you at your coming; It stirs up the dead for you, All the chief ones of the earth; It has raised up from their thrones All the kings of the nations. 10 They all shall speak and say to you: 'Have you also become as weak as we? Have you become like us? 11 Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, And the sound of your stringed instruments; The maggot is spread under you, And worms cover you.' NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 26:2020 then I will bring you down with those who descend into the Pit, to the people of old, and I will make you dwell in the lowest part of the earth, in places desolate from antiquity, with those who go down to the Pit, so that you may never be inhabited; and I shall establish glory in the land of the living.

WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO TYRE? WHY?WHAT IS THE PIT? SHEOL?

READ: ISAIAH 14:1515 Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, To the lowest depths of the Pit. NKJV

READ: ISAIAH 14:1919 You are cast out of your grave Like an abominable branch, Like the garment of those who are slain, Thrust through with a sword, Who go down to the stones of the pit, Like a corpse trodden underfoot. NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 26:20WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO TYRE? WHY?

WHAT IS THE PIT? SHEOL?

WILL ANYONE ESCAPE?READ: AMOS 9:2-4

2 "Though they dig into hell, From there My hand shall take them; Though they climb up to heaven, From there I will bring them down; 3 Though they hide themselves on top of Carmel, From there I will search and take them; Though they hide from My sight at the bottom of the sea, From there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them; 4 Though they go into captivity before their enemies,From there I will command the sword, And it shall slay them. I will set My eyes on them for harm and not for good.“ NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 26:20CAN ANYONE ESCAPE FROM THE PIT?

READ: JONAH 2:1-61 Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from the fish's belly. 2 And he said: "I cried out to the LORD because of my affliction, And He answered me. "Out of the belly of Sheol I cried, And You heard my voice. 3 You cast me into the deep, Into the heart of the seas, And the floods surrounded me; All Your billows and Your waves passed over me. 4 Then I said, 'I have been cast out of Your sight; Yet I will look again toward Your holy temple.' 5 The waters surrounded me, even to my soul; The deep closed around me; Weeds were wrapped around my head. 6 I went down to the moorings of the mountains; The earth with its bars closed behind me forever; Yet You have brought up my life from the pit, O LORD, my God.

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 26:21PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE

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." NKJV

WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO TYRE?

WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO BABYLON? WHY?READ: JEREMIAH 51:63-64

63 Now it shall be, when you have finished reading this book, that you shall tie a stone to it and throw it out into the Euphrates. 64 Then you shall say, 'Thus Babylon shall sink and not rise from the catastrophe that I will bring upon her. And they shall be weary.'NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 26:21PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE

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." NKJV

WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO TYRE?

WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO BABYLON? WHY?

READ: REVELATION 18:2121 Then a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, "Thus with violence the great city Babylon shall be thrown down, and shall not be found anymore. NKJV