Daily Devotions

Ezekiel

Ezekiel 
Day 
Day 298

"And defile your splendour"

Text: Ezekiel 28:7

THE ENEMIES OF TYRE

Tyre believed in making many friends. It has trading treaties with many nations. But the Lord warned Tyre that mighty enemies would bring about ruin to the city-state.

“Therefore thus says the Lord God:
‘Because you have set your heart as the heart of a god,
Behold, therefore, I will bring strangers against you,
The most terrible of the nations;
And they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom,
And defile your splendour.'”
Ezekiel 28:6-7

1. Tyre’s vanity.

a) It was not satisfied with being wealthy.

b) It desired to have immortality.

c) It desired to have “the heart of a god”.

d) This was a quest that was doomed to fail.

2. The enemies of Tyre.

a) They would be “strangers” to Tyre.

b) They were not enamoured of Tyre at all.

c) They were described as “the most terrible of nations”.

d) They would draw their swords against Tyre.

e) They were not impressed with the so-called wisdom of Tyre.

f) They would defile the splendour of Tyre.

g) They were not impressed with the finesse of Tyre’s glamorous merchandise.

3. Who would conquer Tyre?

a) This was already mentioned earlier.

b) The enemies were identified as the Babylonians.

c) Tyre would not be able to withstand the onslaught of the enemies
(Ezekiel 26:7-14).