Discovery BoxEzekiel 26:12 
Context26:12 They will steal your wealth and loot your merchandise. They will tear down your walls and destroy your luxurious 1 homes. Your stones, your trees, and your soil he will throw 2 into the water. 3
Ezekiel 27:9
Context27:9 The elders of Gebal 4 and her skilled men were within you, mending cracks; 5
all the ships of the sea and their mariners were within you to trade for your merchandise. 6
Ezekiel 27:27
Context27:27 Your wealth, products, and merchandise, your sailors and captains,
your ship’s carpenters, 7 your merchants,
and all your fighting men within you,
along with all your crew who are in you,
will fall into the heart of the seas on the day of your downfall.
1 tn Heb “desirable.”
2 tn Heb “set.”
3 tn Heb “into the midst of the water.”
4 sn Another Phoenician coastal city located between Sidon and Arvad.
5 tn Heb “strengthening damages.” Here “to strengthen” means to repair. The word for “damages” occurs several times in 1 Kgs 12 about some type of damage to the temple, which may have referred to or included cracks. Since the context describes Tyre in its glory, we do not expect this reference to damages to be of significant scale, even if there are repairmen. This may refer to using pitch to seal the seams of the ship, which had to be done periodically and could be considered routine maintenance rather than repair of damage.
6 sn The reference to “all the ships of the sea…within you” suggests that the metaphor is changing; previously Tyre had been described as a magnificent ship, but now the description shifts back to an actual city. The “ships of the sea” were within Tyre’s harbor. Verse 11 refers to “walls” and “towers” of the city.
