[[Ezek-26]] Prev: [[Prophecies in Ezek-25]] | Next: [[Prophecies in Ezek-27]] --- ### will cause many nations to come up against you, as the sea causes its waves to come up. *Type*: prophecy *Summary*: The city of Tyre would face a series of invasions from multiple foreign nations rather than a single conqueror. *Historical context*: Historians note that Tyre was besieged and conquered by a succession of world powers over centuries, including the Babylonians (Nebuchadnezzar), the Greeks (Alexander the Great), the Seleucids, the Romans, the Muslim Caliphates, and the Crusaders. *Related to*: ### Behold, I will bring on Tyre Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, from the north, with horses, with chariots, with horsemen, and an army with many people. *Type*: prophecy *Summary*: A specific prediction that Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon would lead a massive land-based military campaign against the city. *Historical context*: Nebuchadnezzar II conducted a famous 13-year siege of Tyre (approximately 585–572 BC). While he eventually took the mainland portion of the city (Ushu), the island fortress remained largely independent until the era of Alexander the Great. *Related to*: ### I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock. *Type*: prophecy *Summary*: The city will be stripped of its soil and structures to the point of exposing the bedrock beneath. *Historical context*: [[In|In 332]] BC, Alexander the Great's army dismantled the ruins of the mainland city to build a massive causeway to the island. They literally scraped the site for rubble and soil, leaving the original mainland foundations bare as described. *Related to*: ### They will lay your stones, your timber, and your dust in the middle of the waters. *Type*: prophecy *Summary*: The building materials of the city—its wood, stones, and debris—will be cast into the sea. *Historical context*: This was specifically fulfilled by Alexander the Great during his siege. To reach the island city, he used the stones and timber from the demolished mainland city to construct a mole (land bridge), effectively casting the city's remains into the Mediterranean Sea. *Related to*: ### You will be a place for the spreading of nets. You will be built no more *Type*: prophecy *Summary*: Tyre will lose its status as a commercial superpower and become a desolate site used primarily for small-scale fishing. *Historical context*: While a modern city named Tyre exists in Lebanon today, the ancient Phoenician commercial empire and the original mainland city were never restored. The specific site of the ancient ruins has been used for centuries by local fishermen to dry their nets, a fact often cited by travelers and archaeologists. *Related to*: --- #ai_prophecy