Ezekiel 26 · Verse 9

Ezekiel 26:9

And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.
Ezekiel 26:9, King James Version

Ezekiel 26:9 in other translations

BSBHe will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and tear down your towers with his axes.
WEBHe will set his battering engines against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers.
ASVAnd he shall set his battering engines against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.
YLTAnd a battering-ram before him he placeth against thy walls, And thy towers he breaketh by his weapons.
DARBYand he shall set his engines of attack against thy walls, and with his spikes he shall break down thy towers.
BBEHe will put up his engines of war against your walls, and your towers will be broken down by his axes.
WebsterAnd he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.

What does Ezekiel 26:9 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
9. engines of war--literally, "an apparatus for striking." "He shall apply the stroke of the battering-ram against thy walls." Havernick translates, "His enginery of destruction"; literally, the "destruction (not merely the stroke) of his enginery." axes--literally, "swords."

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Ezekiel 26:1-14

A prophecy against Tyre. Verses 1-14 To be secretly pleased with the death or decay of others, when we are likely to get by it; or with their fall, when we may thrive upon it, is a sin that easily besets us, yet is not thought so bad as really it is. But it comes from a selfish, covetous principle, and from that love of the world as our happiness, which the love of God expressly forbids. He often blasts the projects…

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Ezekiel 26:9 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וּמְחִ֣יu.me.Chiand [the] blow ofH4239
קָֽבָלּ֔וֹka.va.Lobattering-ram hisH6904
יִתֵּ֖ןyi.Tenhe will setH5414
בְּחֹֽמוֹתָ֑יִךְbe.cho.mo.Ta.yikhon walls yourH2346
וּמִ֨גְדְּלֹתַ֔יִךְu.Mig.de.lo.Ta.yikhand towers yourH4026
יִתֹּ֖ץyi.Totzhe will break downH5422
בְּחַרְבוֹתָֽיו\׃be.char.vo.Tavwith swords hisH2719

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Ezekiel 26:9

  • 2 Chronicles 26:15

    And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong.

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2Ch 26:15

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Context

  • Ezekiel 26:8

    He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field: and he shall make a fort against thee, and cast a mount against thee, and lift up the buckler against thee.

  • Ezekiel 26:9

    And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.

  • Ezekiel 26:10

    By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach.

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Ezekiel 26:9 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y pondrá contra ella arietes, contra tus muros, y tus torres destruirá con sus martillos.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		et il placera ses machines de siège contre tes murailles, et démolira tes tours avec ses pointes de fer.
German
Elberfelder 1871		und wird seine Mauerbrecher wider deine Mauern ansetzen und deine Türme mit seinen Eisen niederreißen.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		et vineas et arietes temperabit in muros tuos, et turres tuas destruet in armatura sua.