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Ezekiel 26:10
His multitude of horses will cover you in their dust. When he enters your gates as an army entering a breached city, your walls will shake from the noise of cavalry, wagons, and chariots.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Yahweh speaks through Ezekiel to the exiled community regarding the imminent Babylonian assault on Tyre, immediately after the prophet describes the battering of the city's walls. The words — מִ/שִּפְעַ֥ת (mi./shif.'At) literally means "from the abundance," and יְכַסֵּ֣/ךְ (ye.kha.Se/kh) means "it will cover you," specifying that the enemy's cavalry will blanket the city in dust. The thread — The motif of ground shaking from chariot wheels and cavalry noise appears in Jeremiah 47:3, Ezekiel 26:15, and Ezekiel 27:28. Why it lands — The text requires acknowledgment that Tyre's gates and walls will be breached by coordinated military force, making the physical collapse of the city a direct consequence of the stated siege tactics.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
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.
Cross-references
- Jeremiah 47:3 at the sound of the galloping hooves of stallions, the rumbling of chariots, and the clatter of their wheels. The fathers will not turn back for their sons; their hands will hang limp.
- Ezekiel 26:15 This is what the Lord GOD says to Tyre: ‘Will not the coastlands quake at the sound of your downfall, when the wounded groan at the slaughter in your midst?
- Ezekiel 27:28 The countryside will shake when your sailors cry out.
- Joshua 6:5 And when there is a long blast of the ram’s horn and you hear its sound, have all the people give a mighty shout. Then the wall of the city will collapse and all your people will charge straight into the city.”
- Joshua 6:20 So when the rams’ horns sounded, the people shouted. When they heard the blast of the horn, the people gave a great shout, and the wall collapsed. Then all the people charged straight into the city and captured it.
- Jeremiah 4:13 Behold, he advances like the clouds, his chariots like the whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us, for we are ruined!
- Ezekiel 26:7 For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I will bring against Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses and chariots, with cavalry and a great company of troops.
- Nahum 2:3 The shields of his mighty men are red; the valiant warriors are dressed in scarlet. The fittings of the chariots flash like fire on the day they are prepared, and the spears of cypress have been brandished.