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Ezekiel

Ezekiel 
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Day 299

"They shall throw you down into the Pit"

Text: Ezekiel 28:8

THE HUMBLING OF TYRE

Tyre would suffer a terrible blow at the hands of the Babylonians. They would be utterly destroyed by the Babylonians.

“They shall throw you down into the Pit,
And you shall die the death of the slain
In the midst of the seas.
‘Will you still say before him who slays you,
‘I am a god’?
But you shall be a man, and not a god,
In the hand of him who slays you.
You shall die the death of the uncircumcised
By the hand of aliens;
For I have spoken,’ says the Lord God.'”
Ezekiel 28:8-10

1. The Pit

a) This is a reference to the grave.

b) In their case it would be a watery grave.

c) Tyre and its many ships would perish in the midst of the seas.

2. A humbling taunt.

a) Would Tyre still dare to claim, “I am a god?”

b) Would Tyre still be arrogant as it faces certain death?

3. Tyre is only mortal.

a) Tyre is nothing but a vulnerable human being.

b) The slayer would lay hands on Tyre and bring death to the city-state.

c) Tyre cannot escape death.

4. The death of Tyre.

a) This was decreed by the Lord God.

b) The only one who is truly immortal is the Lord God of Israel.

c) Tyre shall die ignobly.

i) “The death of the uncircumcised”.

ii) It would die “by the hand of aliens”.