EZEKIEL CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX

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• EZEKIEL CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX

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OUTLINE EZEKIEL CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX

• TYRE MEANS - A ROCK
• TYRE INSULTS JERUSALEM V. 1-2
• DESTRUCTION OF TYRE V. 3-6
• TYRE BECOMES A BARE ROCK V. 7-14
• TYRE IS BURIED IN THE SEA V. 15-21

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READ EZEKIEL 261-2

• PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE
• 1 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, on
  the first day of the month, that the word of the
  LORD came to me, saying,
• 2 "Son of man, because Tyre has said against
  Jerusalem, 'Aha! She is broken who was the
  gateway of the peoples now she is turned over to
  me I shall be filled she is laid waste.'

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 261-2

• PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE
• 1 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, on
  the first day of the month, that the word of the
  LORD came to me, saying,
• 2 "Son of man, because Tyre has said against
  Jerusalem, 'Aha! She is broken who was the
  gateway of the peoples now she is turned over to
  me I shall be filled she is laid waste.'
• WHEN DID THE LORD SPEAK TO EZEKIEL?
• in the eleventh year, on the first day of the
  month
• (of the reign of Zedekiah 18 JULY 586 B.C.)?
• WHY IS THE LORD DOING THIS?
• because Tyre has said against Jerusalem

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 261

• WHEN DID ALL THESE THINGS COME TO PASS?
• in the eleventh year, on the first day of the
  month
• (of the reign of Zedekiah 18 JULY 586 B.C.)?
• READ JEREMIAH 524-5
• 4 Now it came to pass in the ninth year of his
  reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of
  the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
  and all his army came against Jerusalem and
  encamped against it and they built a siege wall
  against it all around.
• 5 So the city was besieged until the eleventh
  year of King Zedekiah. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 261

• WHEN DID ALL THESE THINGS COME TO PASS?
• in the eleventh year, on the first day of the
  month
• (of the reign of Zedekiah 18 JULY 586 B.C.)?
• READ JEREMIAH 5212-13
• 12 Now in the fifth month, on the tenth day of
  the month (which was the nineteenth year of King
  Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), Nebuzaradan, the
  captain of the guard, who served the king of
  Babylon, came to Jerusalem.
• 13 He burned the house of the LORD and the
  king's house all the houses of Jerusalem, that
  is, all the houses of the great, he burned with
  fire. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 262

• WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT TYRE?
• WHAT LAND WAS GIVEN TO THE TRIBE OF ASHER?
• READ JOSHUA 1924-29
• 24 The fifth lot came out for the tribe of the
  children of Asher according to their families.
• 28 including Ebron, Rehob, Hammon, and Kanah, as
  far as Greater Sidon.
• 29 And the border turned to Ramah and to the
  fortified city of Tyre then the border turned to
  Hosah, and ended at the sea by the region of
  Achzib. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 262

• WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT TYRE?
• WHO WAS THE KING OF TYRE? HIRAM ?
• WHAT DID THE KING OF TYRE DO? WHY?
• READ 2 SAMUEL 511
• 11 Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David,
  and cedar trees, and carpenters and masons. And
  they built David a house. (1 CHRONICLES 141)
• READ 1 KINGS 51
• 1 Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to
  Solomon, because he heard that they had anointed
  him king in place of his father, for Hiram had
  always loved David.

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 262

• WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT TYRE?
• WHAT DID DAVID DO?
• WHERE DID DAVID GET THE CEDAR?
• READ 1 CHRONICLES 222-4
• 2 David commanded to gather the aliens who were
  in the land of Israel and he appointed masons to
  cut hewn stones to build the house of God.
• 3 And David prepared iron in abundance for the
  nails of the doors of the gates and for the
  joints, and bronze in abundance beyond measure,
• 4 and cedar trees in abundance for the
  Sidonians and those from Tyre brought much cedar
  wood to David.

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 262

• WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT TYRE?
• WHAT DID SOLOMON SAY TO HIRAM?
• READ 2 CHRONICLES 23-4
• 3 Solomon sent to Hiram king of Tyre , saying
  As you have dealt with David my father, and sent
  him cedars to build himself a house to dwell in,
  so deal with me.
• HOW DID HIRAM RESPOND?
• READ 2 CHRONICLES 211-12
• 11 Hiram king of Tyre answered in writing, which
  he sent to Solomon Because the LORD loves His
  people, He has made you king over them.
• 12 Hiram also said Blessed be the LORD God of
  Israel, who made heaven and earth, for He has
  given King David a wise son, endowed with
  prudence and understanding, who will build a
  temple for the LORD and a royal house for
  himself! NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 262

• WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT TYRE?
• WHO DID HIRAM SEND TO SOLOMON? WHY?
• READ 2 CHRONICLES 213-14
• 13 I have sent a skillful man, endowed with
  understanding, Huram my master craftsman,
• 14 (the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan,
  and his father was a man of Tyre), skilled to
  work in gold and silver, bronze and iron, stone
  and wood, purple and blue, fine linen and
  crimson, and to make any engraving and to
  accomplish any plan which may be given to him,
  with your skillful men and with the skillful men
  of my lord David your father. (1 KINGS 713-14)

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 262

• WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT TYRE?
• WHAT DID HIRAM DO FOR SOLOMON?
• HOW DID SOLOMON REPAY HIRAM?
• READ 1 KINGS 911-14
• 11 Hiram, king of Tyre, supplied Solomon with
  cedar and cypress and gold, as much as he
  desired. Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the
  land of Galilee.
• 12 Then Hiram went from Tyre to see the cities
  which Solomon had given him, but they did not
  please him.
• 13 He said, "What kind of cities are these which
  you have given me, my brother?" He called them
  the land of Cabul, as they are to this day.
• 14 Then Hiram sent the king 120 talents of gold.
  NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 262

• WHAT NATIONS WILL THE LORD JUDGE?
• ALL THE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD?
• READ JEREMIAH 2518-25
• 18 Jerusalem and the cities of Judah .
• 19 Pharaoh king of Egypt . and all his people
• 20 all the kings of the land of Uz, and
• all the kings of the land of the Philistines.
• 21 Edom, Moab, and the people of Ammon
• 22 all the kings of Tyre , all the kings of
  Sidon,
• and the kings of the coastlands .
• 23 Dedan, Tema, Buz .
• 24 all the kings of Arabia and
• all the kings of the desert
• 25 all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of
  Elam,
• and all the kings of the Medes .

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 262

• WHAT NATIONS DID GOD GIVE TO NEBUCHADNEZZAR?
• ALL THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD?
• READ JEREMIAH 273-6
• 3 Send to the king of Edom, the king of Moab,
  the king of the Ammonites, the king of Tyre, and
  the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messengers
  who come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah.
• 4 And command them to say to their masters,
  "Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel
  .
• 5 'I have made the earth, the man and the beast
  that are on the ground, by My great power and by
  My outstretched arm, and have given it to whom it
  seemed proper to Me.
• 6 And now I have given all these lands into the
  hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My
  servant and the beasts of the field I have also
  given him to serve him.

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 262

• WHAT NATIONS CAME AGAINST THE LORD? WHY?
• READ PSALMS 833-8
• 3 They have taken crafty counsel against Your
  people, And consulted together against Your
  sheltered ones.
• 4 They have said, "Come, and let us cut them off
  from being a nation, That the name of Israel may
  be remembered no more."
• 5 They have consulted together with one consent
  They form a confederacy against You
• 6 The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites Moab
  and the Hagrites
• 7 Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek Philistia with the
  inhabitants of Tyre
• 8 Assyria also has joined with them They have
  helped the children of Lot. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 262

• WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT TYRE?
• WHAT DID THE CHILDREN OF ISREAL DO?
• READ EZRA 36-7
• 7 They gave money to the masons and carpenters,
  and food, drink, and oil to the people of Sidon
  and Tyre to bring cedar logs from Lebanon to the
  sea, to Joppa, according to the permission which
  they had from Cyrus king of Persia. NKJV
• WHY WAS NEHEMIAH UPSET WITH THE MEN OF TYRE?
• READ NEHEMIAH 1316
• 16 Men of Tyre dwelt there also, who brought in
  fish and all kinds of goods, and sold them on the
  Sabbath to the children of Judah, and in
  Jerusalem. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 262

• WHAT DID JESUS SAY ABOUT TYRE SIDON?
• READ MATTHEW 1121-22
• 21 Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida!
  For if the mighty works which were done in you
  had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have
  repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
• 22 But I say to you, it will be more tolerable
  for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment than
  for you. NKJV
• (LUKE 1013-15)
• WHAT PEOPLE CAME TO JESUS? WHY?
• READ LUKE 617-18
• 17 He came down with them and stood on a level
  place with a crowd of His disciples and a great
  multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem,
  and from the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon, who came
  to hear Him and be healed of their diseases, NKJV
• (MATTHEW 1215-21 MARK 37-12)

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 262

• WHAT DID THE PEOPLE OF TYRE SIDON DO?
• WHY?
• READ ACTS 1220
• 20 Herod had been very angry with the people of
  Tyre and Sidon but they came to him with one
  accord, and having made Blastus the king's
  personal aide their friend, they asked for peace,
  because their country was supplied with food by
  the king's country. NKJV
• WHY DID PAUL STOP AT TYRE?
• READ ACTS 213-11
• 3 When we had sighted Cyprus, we passed it on
  the left, sailed to Syria, and landed at Tyre
  for there the ship was to unload her cargo.
• 4 And finding disciples, we stayed there seven
  days. They told Paul through the Spirit not to go
  up to Jerusalem. NKJV

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READ EZEKIEL 263-4

• PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE
• 3 "Therefore thus says the Lord GOD 'Behold, I
  am against you, O Tyre, and will cause many
  nations to come up against you, as the sea causes
  its waves to come up.
• 4 And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre and
  break down her towers I will also scrape her
  dust from her, and make her like the top of a
  rock.

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 263-4

• PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE
• 3 "Therefore thus says the Lord GOD 'Behold, I
  am against you, O Tyre, and will cause many
  nations to come up against you, as the sea causes
  its waves to come up.
• 4 And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre and
  break down her towers I will also scrape her
  dust from her, and make her like the top of a
  rock.
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO TYRE? WHY?
• WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO TYRE? WHY?

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 263

• 3 "Therefore thus says the Lord GOD 'Behold, I
  am against you, O Tyre, and will cause many
  nations to come up against you, as the sea causes
  its waves to come up.
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO TYRE? WHY?
• READ ISAIAH 231
• 1 Wail, you ships of Tarshish! For it is laid
  waste,
• So that there is no house, no harbor From the
  land of Cyprus it is revealed to them. NKJV
• READ ISAIAH 530
• 30 In that day they will roar against them Like
  the roaring of the sea. And if one looks to the
  land, Behold, darkness and sorrow And the light
  is darkened by the clouds. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 264

• 4 And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre and
  break down her towers I will also scrape her
  dust from her, and make her like the top of a
  rock.
• TYRE ROCK
• WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO TYRE? WHY?
• READ AMOS 19-10
• 9 Thus says the LORD "For three transgressions
  of Tyre , and for four, I will not turn away its
  punishment,
• Because they delivered up the whole captivity to
  Edom,
• And did not remember the covenant of brotherhood.
  
• 10 But I will send a fire upon the wall of Tyre,
  Which shall devour its palaces." NKJV

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READ EZEKIEL 265-6

• PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE
• 5 It shall be a place for spreading nets in the
  midst of the sea, for I have spoken,' says the
  Lord GOD 'it shall become plunder for the
  nations.
• 6 Also her daughter villages which are in the
  fields shall be slain by the sword. Then they
  shall know that I am the LORD.'

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 265-6

• PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE
• 5 It shall be a place for spreading nets in the
  midst of the sea, for I have spoken,' says the
  Lord GOD 'it shall become plunder for the
  nations.
• 6 Also her daughter villages which are in the
  fields shall be slain by the sword. Then they
  shall know that I am the LORD.'
• WHAT WILL BECOME OF TYRE?
• WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO TYRES VILLAGES?
• WHY?

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 265-6

• WHAT WILL BECOME OF TYRE?
• WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO TYRES VILLAGES?
• WHY?
• READ JOEL 34-6
• 4 What have you to do with Me, Tyre and Sidon,
  and all the coasts of Philistia? Will you
  retaliate against Me? But if you retaliate
  against Me, Swiftly and speedily I will return
  your retaliation upon your own head
• 5 Because you have taken My silver and My gold,
• And have carried into your temples My prized
  possessions.
• 6 Also the people of Judah and the people of
  Jerusalem You have sold to the Greeks, That you
  may remove them far from their borders. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 265-6

• WHAT WILL BECOME OF TYRE?
• WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO TYRES VILLAGES?
• READ ZECHARIAH 91-4
• 1 The burden of the word of the LORD Against the
  land of Hadrach, And Damascus its resting place.
  For the eyes of men And all the tribes of Israel
  Are on the LORD.
• 2 Also against Hamath, which borders on it, And
  against Tyre and Sidon, though they are very
  wise.
• 3 For Tyre built herself a tower, Heaped up
  silver like the dust, And gold like the mire of
  the streets.
• 4 Behold, the LORD will cast her out He will
  destroy her power in the sea, And she will be
  devoured by fire.

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READ EZEKIEL 267-9

• PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE
• 7 "For thus says the Lord GOD 'Behold, I will
  bring against Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar
  king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses, with
  chariots, and with horsemen, and an army with
  many people.
• 8 He will slay with the sword your daughter
  villages in the fields he will heap up a siege
  mound against you, build a wall against you, and
  raise a defense against you.
• 9 He will direct his battering rams against your
  walls, and with his axes he will break down your
  towers.

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 267-9

• PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE
• 7 "For thus says the Lord GOD 'Behold, I will
  bring against Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar
  king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses, with
  chariots, and with horsemen, and an army with
  many people.
• 8 He will slay with the sword your daughter
  villages in the fields he will heap up a siege
  mound against you, build a wall against you, and
  raise a defense against you.
• 9 He will direct his battering rams against your
  walls, and with his axes he will break down your
  towers.
• WHO WILL THE LORD BRING AGAINST TYRE?
• WHY IS HE CALLED king of kings?
• WHAT WILL NEBUCHADNEZZAR DO?

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 267

• 7 "For thus says the Lord GOD 'Behold, I will
  bring against Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar
  king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses, with
  chariots, and with horsemen, and an army with
  many people.
• WHO WILL THE LORD BRING AGAINST TYRE?
• WHY IS HE CALLED king of kings?
• HOW DID THE RABSHAKEH REFER TO HIM?
• READ 2 KINGS 1828-29
• 28 The Rabshakeh stood and called out with a
  loud voice in Hebrew, and spoke, saying, "Hear
  the word of the great king, the king of Assyria!
  NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 267

• 7 "For thus says the Lord GOD 'Behold, I will
  bring against Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar
  king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses, with
  chariots, and with horsemen, and an army with
  many people.
• WHY IS HE CALLED king of kings?
• WHAT DID DANIEL SAY TO NEBUCHADNEZZAR?
• READ DANIEL 237
• 37 You, O king, are a king of kings. For the God
  of heaven has given you a kingdom, power,
  strength, and glory NKJV
• WHAT DID NEBUCHADNEZZAR SAY TO DANIEL?
• READ DANIEL 247
• 47 The king answered Daniel, and said, "Truly
  your God is the God of gods, the Lord of kings,
  and a revealer of secrets, since you could reveal
  this secret." NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 267

• WHO WILL THE LORD BRING AGAINST TYRE?
• Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY ABOUT HIM?
• READ JEREMIAH 275-8
• 5 I have made the earth, the man and the beast
  that are on the ground, by My great power and by
  My outstretched arm, and have given it to whom it
  seemed proper to Me.
• 6 And now I have given all these lands into the
  hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My
  servant and the beasts of the field I have also
  given him to serve him.
• 7 So all nations shall serve him and his son and
  his son's son, until the time of his land comes
  and then many nations and great kings shall make
  him serve them.

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 267

• WHO IS THE ONLY TRUE King of kings?
• WHAT DID PAUL WRITE TO TIMOTHY?
• READ 1 TIMOTHY 613-15
• 13 I urge you in the sight of God who gives life
  to all things, and before Christ Jesus who
  witnessed the good confession before Pontius
  Pilate,
• 14 that you keep this commandment without spot,
  blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ's
  appearing,
• 15 which He will manifest in His own time, He
  who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King
  of kings and Lord of lords.

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 267

• WHO IS THE ONLY TRUE King of kings?
• WHAT DID JOHN SAY ABOUT CHRIST?
• READ REVELATION 1714
• 14 These will make war with the Lamb, and the
  Lamb will overcome them, for He is Lord of lords
  and King of kings and those who are with Him are
  called, chosen, and faithful. NKJV
• READ REVELATION 1916
• 16 And He has on His robe and on His thigh a
  name written KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.
  NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 268-9

• PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE
• 8 He will slay with the sword your daughter
  villages in the fields he will heap up a siege
  mound against you, build a wall against you, and
  raise a defense against you.
• 9 He will direct his battering rams against your
  walls, and with his axes he will break down your
  towers.
• WHO WILL THE LORD BRING AGAINST TYRE?
• WHAT WILL NEBUCHADNEZZAR DO?
• HOW DID HE DESTROY JERUSALEM?
• He will slay with the sword your villages in the
  fields
• He will heap up a siege mound against you,
• build a wall against you,
• and raise a defense against you.
• He will direct his battering rams against your
  walls,
• and with his axes he will break down your towers.

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READ EZEKIEL 2610-12

• PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE
• 10 Because of the abundance of his horses, their
  dust will cover you your walls will shake at the
  noise of the horsemen, the wagons, and the
  chariots, when he enters your gates, as men enter
  a city that has been breached.
• 11 With the hooves of his horses he will trample
  all your streets he will slay your people by the
  sword, and your strong pillars will fall to the
  ground.
• 12 They will plunder your riches and pillage
  your merchandise they will break down your walls
  and destroy your pleasant houses they will lay
  your stones, your timber, and your soil in the
  midst of the water.

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 2610-12

• PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE
• 10 Because of the abundance of his horses, their
  dust will cover you your walls will shake at the
  noise of the horsemen, the wagons, and the
  chariots, when he enters your gates, as men enter
  a city that has been breached.
• 11 With the hooves of his horses he will trample
  all your streets he will slay your people by the
  sword, and your strong pillars will fall to the
  ground.
• 12 They will plunder your riches and pillage
  your merchandise they will break down your walls
  and destroy your pleasant houses they will lay
  your stones, your timber, and your soil in the
  midst of the water.
• WHO WILL THE LORD BRING AGAINST TYRE?
• WHAT WILL THEY DO?

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 2610

• PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE
• 10 Because of the abundance of his horses, their
  dust will cover you your walls will shake at the
  noise of the horsemen, the wagons, and the
  chariots, when he enters your gates, as men enter
  a city that has been breached.
• WHO WILL THE LORD BRING AGAINST TYRE?
• WHAT WILL THEY DO?
• READ JEREMIAH 413
• 13 "Behold, he shall come up like clouds, And
  his chariots like a whirlwind. His horses are
  swifter than eagles. Woe to us, for we are
  plundered!" NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 2611

• PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE
• 11 With the hooves of his horses he will trample
  all your streets he will slay your people by the
  sword, and your strong pillars will fall to the
  ground.
• WHO WILL THE LORD BRING AGAINST TYRE?
• HOW DID THE LORD DESCRIBE THEM?
• READ ISAIAH 527-28
• 27 No one will be weary or stumble among them,
  No one will slumber or sleep Nor will the belt
  on their loins be loosed, Nor the strap of their
  sandals be broken
• 28 Whose arrows are sharp, And all their bows
  bent
• Their horses' hooves will seem like flint, And
  their wheels like a whirlwind. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 2612

• PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE
• 12 They will plunder your riches and pillage
  your merchandise they will break down your walls
  and destroy your pleasant houses they will lay
  your stones, your timber, and your soil in the
  midst of the water.
• WHO WILL BRING JUDGMENT ON TYRE? WHY?
• READ ISAIAH 238-9
• 8 Who has taken this counsel against Tyre, the
  crowning city, Whose merchants are princes, Whose
  traders are the honorable of the earth?
• 9 The LORD of hosts has purposed it, To bring to
  dishonor the pride of all glory, To bring into
  contempt all the honorable of the earth. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 2612

• PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE
• 12 They will plunder your riches and pillage
  your merchandise they will break down your walls
  and destroy your pleasant houses they will lay
  your stones, your timber, and your soil in the
  midst of the water.
• WHO WILL BRING JUDGMENT ON TYRE? WHY?
• READ ISAIAH 265
• 5 He brings down those who dwell on high, The
  lofty city He lays it low, He lays it low to the
  ground, He brings it down to the dust. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 2612

• PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE
• 12 They will plunder your riches and pillage
  your merchandise they will break down your walls
  and destroy your pleasant houses they will lay
  your stones, your timber, and your soil in the
  midst of the water.
• WHO WILL THE LORD BRING AGAINST TYRE?
• WHAT WILL THEY DO?
• READ HABAKKUK 16-8
• 6 For indeed I am raising up the Chaldeans, A
  bitter and hasty nation Which marches through the
  breadth of the earth, To possess dwelling places
  that are not theirs.
• 7 They are terrible and dreadful Their judgment
  and their dignity proceed from themselves.
• 8 Their horses also are swifter than leopards,
  And more fierce than evening wolves. Their
  chargers charge ahead Their cavalry comes from
  afar They fly as the eagle that hastens to eat.
  NKJV

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READ EZEKIEL 2613-14

• PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE
• 13 I will put an end to the sound of your songs,
  and the sound of your harps shall be heard no
  more.
• 14 I will make you like the top of a rock you
  shall be a place for spreading nets, and you
  shall never be rebuilt, for I the LORD have
  spoken,' says the Lord GOD.

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 2613-14

• PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE
• 13 I will put an end to the sound of your songs,
  and the sound of your harps shall be heard no
  more.
• 14 I will make you like the top of a rock you
  shall be a place for spreading nets, and you
  shall never be rebuilt, for I the LORD have
  spoken,' says the Lord GOD.
• WHAT WILL THE LORD PUT AN END TO?
• WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO TYRE?

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 2613

• PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE
• 13 I will put an end to the sound of your songs,
  and the sound of your harps shall be heard no
  more.
• WHAT WILL THE LORD PUT AN END TO?
• READ ISAIAH 1411
• 11 Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, And the
  sound of your stringed instruments The maggot is
  spread under you, And worms cover you.' NKJV
• READ ISAIAH 248
• 8 The mirth of the tambourine ceases, The noise
  of the jubilant ends, The joy of the harp ceases.
  NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 2613

• PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE
• 13 I will put an end to the sound of your songs,
  and the sound of your harps shall be heard no
  more.
• WHAT WILL THE LORD PUT AN END TO?
• READ JEREMIAH 169
• 9 For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of
  Israel "Behold, I will cause to cease from this
  place, before your eyes and in your days, the
  voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the
  voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the
  bride. NKJV
• READ JEREMIAH 2510
• 10 Moreover I will take from them the voice of
  mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the
  bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound
  of the millstones and the light of the lamp. NKJV

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READ EZEKIEL 2615-16

• PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE
• 15 "Thus says the Lord GOD to Tyre 'Will the
  coastlands not shake at the sound of your fall,
  when the wounded cry, when slaughter is made in
  the midst of you?
• 16 Then all the princes of the sea will come
  down from their thrones, lay aside their robes,
  and take off their embroidered garments they
  will clothe themselves with trembling they will
  sit on the ground, tremble every moment, and be
  astonished at you.

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 2615-16

• PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE
• 15 "Thus says the Lord GOD to Tyre 'Will the
  coastlands not shake at the sound of your fall,
  when the wounded cry, when slaughter is made in
  the midst of you?
• 16 Then all the princes of the sea will come
  down from their thrones, lay aside their robes,
  and take off their embroidered garments they
  will clothe themselves with trembling they will
  sit on the ground, tremble every moment, and be
  astonished at you.
• WHAT DID THE LORD ASK TYRE?
• HOW DID THE COASTLANDS RESPOND?
• WHO ARE THE PRINCES OF TYRE?
• WHAT WILL THE PRINCES OF TYRE DO?

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 2615

• PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE
• 15 "Thus says the Lord GOD to Tyre 'Will the
  coastlands not shake at the sound of your fall,
  when the wounded cry, when slaughter is made in
  the midst of you?
• WHAT DID THE LORD ASK TYRE?
• HOW DID THE COASTLANDS RESPOND?
• READ JEREMIAH 4921
• 21 The earth shakes at the noise of their fall
  At the cry its noise is heard at the Red Sea.
  NKJV
• READ ISAIAH 415
• 5 The coastlands saw it and feared, The ends of
  the earth were afraid They drew near and came.
  NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 2616

• PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE
• 16 Then all the princes of the sea will come
  down from their thrones, lay aside their robes,
  and take off their embroidered garments they
  will clothe themselves with trembling they will
  sit on the ground, tremble every moment, and be
  astonished at you.
• WHAT WILL THE PRINCES OF TYRE DO?
• WHO ARE THE PRINCES OF TYRE?
• READ ISAIAH 238
• 8 Who has taken this counsel against Tyre, the
  crowning city, Whose merchants are princes, Whose
  traders are the honorable of the earth? NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 2616

• PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE
• 16 Then all the princes of the sea will come
  down from their thrones, lay aside their robes,
  and take off their embroidered garments they
  will clothe themselves with trembling they will
  sit on the ground, tremble every moment, and be
  astonished at you.
• WHAT WILL THE PRINCES OF TYRE DO?
• WHAT DID JOBS FRIENDS DO? WHY?
• READ JOB 213
• 13 They sat down with him on the ground seven
  days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to
  him, for they saw that his grief was very great.
  NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 2616

• PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE
• 16 Then all the princes of the sea will come
  down from their thrones, lay aside their robes,
  and take off their embroidered garments they
  will clothe themselves with trembling they will
  sit on the ground, tremble every moment, and be
  astonished at you.
• WHAT WILL THE PRINCES OF TYRE DO?
• WHY?
• READ EZEKIEL 727
• 27 The king will mourn, The prince will be
  clothed with desolation, And the hands of the
  common people will tremble. I will do to them
  according to their way, And according to what
  they deserve I will judge them Then they shall
  know that I am the LORD!' NKJV

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READ EZEKIEL 2617-18

• PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE
• 17 And they will take up a lamentation for you,
  and say to you "How you have perished, O one
  inhabited by seafaring men, O renowned city, Who
  was strong at sea, She and her inhabitants, Who
  caused their terror to be on all her inhabitants!
  
• 18 Now the coastlands tremble on the day of your
  fall
• Yes, the coastlands by the sea are troubled at
  your departure."'

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 2617-18

• PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE
• 17 And they will take up a lamentation for you,
  and say to you "How you have perished, O one
  inhabited by seafaring men, O renowned city, Who
  was strong at sea, She and her inhabitants, Who
  caused their terror to be on all her inhabitants!
  
• 18 Now the coastlands tremble on the day of your
  fall
• Yes, the coastlands by the sea are troubled at
  your departure."'
• WHAT WILL THEIR PRINCES SAY?
• WHY DID THE CITIES OF THE COASTLANDS TREMBLE?

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 2617

• PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE
• 17 And they will take up a lamentation for you,
  and say to you "How you have perished, O one
  inhabited by seafaring men, O renowned city, Who
  was strong at sea, She and her inhabitants, Who
  caused their terror to be on all her inhabitants!
  
• WHAT DID THE LORD TELL ISRAEL TO DO?
• WHY?
• READ EZEKIEL 191
• 1 Take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel.

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 2617

• PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE
• 17 And they will take up a lamentation for you,
  and say to you "How you have perished, O one
  inhabited by seafaring men, O renowned city, Who
  was strong at sea, She and her inhabitants, Who
  caused their terror to be on all her inhabitants!
  
• WHAT WILL THEIR PRINCES SAY?
• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY ABOUT LUCIFER?
• WHY?
• READ EZEKIEL 1412
• 12 How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,
  son of the morning! How you are cut down to the
  ground, You who weakened the nations! NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 2618

• PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE
• 18 Now the coastlands tremble on the day of your
  fall
• Yes, the coastlands by the sea are troubled at
  your departure."'
• WHY DID THE CITIES OF THE COASTLANDS TREMBLE?
• WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE LORD SPEAKS?
• READ PSALMS 466
• 6 The nations raged, the kingdoms were moved
  He uttered His voice, the earth melted. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 2618

• PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE
• 18 Now the coastlands tremble on the day of your
  fall
• Yes, the coastlands by the sea are troubled at
  your departure."'
• WHY DID THE CITIES OF THE COASTLANDS TREMBLE?
• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY?
• READ ISAIAH 235-6
• 5 When the report reaches Egypt, They also will
  be in agony at the report of Tyre.
• 6 Cross over to Tarshish Wail, you inhabitants
  of the coastland! NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 2618

• 18 Now the coastlands tremble on the day of your
  fall
• Yes, the coastlands by the sea are troubled at
  your departure."'
• WHY DID THE CITIES OF THE COASTLANDS TREMBLE?
• READ ISAIAH 2311-12
• 11 He stretched out His hand over the sea, He
  shook the kingdoms The LORD has given a
  commandment against Canaan To destroy its
  strongholds.
• 12 And He said, "You will rejoice no more, O you
  oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon. Arise, cross
  over to Cyprus There also you will have no
  rest. NKJV
• READ ISAIAH 415
• 5 The coastlands saw it and feared, The ends of
  the earth were afraid They drew near and came.
  NKJV

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READ EZEKIEL 2619-21

• PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE
• 19 "For thus says the Lord GOD 'When I make you
  a desolate city, like cities that are not
  inhabited, when I bring the deep upon you, and
  great waters cover you,
• 20 then I will bring you down with those who
  descend into the Pit, to the people of old, and I
  will make you dwell in the lowest part of the
  earth, in places desolate from antiquity, with
  those who go down to the Pit, so that you may
  never be inhabited and I shall establish glory
  in the land of the living.
• 21 I will make you a terror, and you shall be no
  more though you are sought for, you will never
  be found again,' says the Lord GOD." NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 2619-21

• PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE
• 19 "For thus says the Lord GOD 'When I make you
  a desolate city, like cities that are not
  inhabited, when I bring the deep upon you, and
  great waters cover you,
• 20 then I will bring you down with those who
  descend into the Pit, to the people of old, and I
  will make you dwell in the lowest part of the
  earth, in places desolate from antiquity, with
  those who go down to the Pit, so that you may
  never be inhabited and I shall establish glory
  in the land of the living.
• 21 I will make you a terror, and you shall be no
  more though you are sought for, you will never
  be found again,' says the Lord GOD." NKJV
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO TYRE?

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 2619

• PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE
• 19 "For thus says the Lord GOD 'When I make you
  a desolate city, like cities that are not
  inhabited, when I bring the deep upon you, and
  great waters cover you,
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO TYRE? WHY?
• WHAT DID THE LORD DO IN THE DAYS OF NOAH?
• WHY?
• READ GENESIS 711-12
• 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in
  the second month, the seventeenth day of the
  month, on that day all the fountains of the great
  deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven
  were opened.
• 12 And the rain was on the earth forty days and
  forty nights. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 2619

• PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE
• 19 "For thus says the Lord GOD 'When I make you
  a desolate city, like cities that are not
  inhabited, when I bring the deep upon you, and
  great waters cover you,
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO TYRE? WHY?
• WHAT WILL THE KING OF ASSYRIA DO?
• READ ISAIAH 87-8
• 7 Now therefore, behold, the Lord brings up over
  them The waters of the River, strong and mighty
• The king of Assyria and all his glory He will go
  up over all his channels And go over all his
  banks.
• 8 He will pass through Judah, He will overflow
  and pass over, He will reach up to the neck And
  the stretching out of his wings Will fill the
  breadth of Your land, O Immanuel. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 2620

• 20 then I will bring you down with those who
  descend into the Pit, to the people of old, and I
  will make you dwell in the lowest part of the
  earth, in places desolate from antiquity, with
  those who go down to the Pit, so that you may
  never be inhabited and I shall establish glory
  in the land of the living.
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO TYRE? WHY?
• WHAT IS THE PIT? SHEOL?
• WHAT DID MOSES SAY ABOUT THE PIT?
• READ NUMBERS 1630
• 30 But if the LORD creates a new thing, and the
  earth opens its mouth and swallows them up with
  all that belongs to them, and they go down alive
  into the pit, then you will understand that these
  men have rejected the LORD." NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 2620

• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO TYRE? WHY?
• WHAT IS THE PIT? SHEOL?
• WHAT DID THE PSALMIST SAY ABOUT THE PIT?
• READ PSALMS 281
• 1 To You I will cry, O LORD my Rock Do not be
  silent to me, Lest, if You are silent to me, I
  become like those who go down to the pit. NKJV
• READ PSALMS 886-7
• 6 You have laid me in the lowest pit, In
  darkness, in the depths.
• 7 Your wrath lies heavy upon me, And You have
  afflicted me with all Your waves. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 2620

• 20 then I will bring you down with those who
  descend into the Pit, to the people of old, and I
  will make you dwell in the lowest part of the
  earth, in places desolate from antiquity, with
  those who go down to the Pit, so that you may
  never be inhabited and I shall establish glory
  in the land of the living.
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO TYRE? WHY?
• WHAT IS THE PIT? SHEOL?
• READ ISAIAH 149-11
• 9 Hell from beneath is excited about you, To
  meet you at your coming It stirs up the dead for
  you, All the chief ones of the earth It has
  raised up from their thrones All the kings of the
  nations.
• 10 They all shall speak and say to you 'Have
  you also become as weak as we? Have you become
  like us?
• 11 Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, And the
  sound of your stringed instruments The maggot is
  spread under you, And worms cover you.' NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 2620

• 20 then I will bring you down with those who
  descend into the Pit, to the people of old, and I
  will make you dwell in the lowest part of the
  earth, in places desolate from antiquity, with
  those who go down to the Pit, so that you may
  never be inhabited and I shall establish glory
  in the land of the living.
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO TYRE? WHY?
• WHAT IS THE PIT? SHEOL?
• READ ISAIAH 1415
• 15 Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, To
  the lowest depths of the Pit. NKJV
• READ ISAIAH 1419
• 19 You are cast out of your grave Like an
  abominable branch, Like the garment of those who
  are slain, Thrust through with a sword, Who go
  down to the stones of the pit, Like a corpse
  trodden underfoot. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 2620

• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO TYRE? WHY?
• WHAT IS THE PIT? SHEOL?
• WILL ANYONE ESCAPE?
• READ AMOS 92-4
• 2 "Though they dig into hell, From there My hand
  shall take them Though they climb up to heaven,
  From there I will bring them down
• 3 Though they hide themselves on top of Carmel,
  From there I will search and take them Though
  they hide from My sight at the bottom of the sea,
  From there I will command the serpent, and it
  shall bite them
• 4 Though they go into captivity before their
  enemies,
• From there I will command the sword, And it shall
  slay them. I will set My eyes on them for harm
  and not for good. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 2620

• CAN ANYONE ESCAPE FROM THE PIT?
• READ JONAH 21-6
• 1 Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from the
  fish's belly.
• 2 And he said "I cried out to the LORD because
  of my affliction, And He answered me. "Out of the
  belly of Sheol I cried, And You heard my voice.
• 3 You cast me into the deep, Into the heart of
  the seas, And the floods surrounded me All Your
  billows and Your waves passed over me.
• 4 Then I said, 'I have been cast out of Your
  sight Yet I will look again toward Your holy
  temple.'
• 5 The waters surrounded me, even to my soul
  The deep closed around me Weeds were wrapped
  around my head.
• 6 I went down to the moorings of the mountains
  The earth with its bars closed behind me forever
  Yet You have brought up my life from the pit, O
  LORD, my God.

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 2621

• PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE
• 21 I will make you a terror, and you shall be no
  more though you are sought for, you will never
  be found again,' says the Lord GOD." NKJV
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO TYRE?
• WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO BABYLON? WHY?
• READ JEREMIAH 5163-64
• 63 Now it shall be, when you have finished
  reading this book, that you shall tie a stone to
  it and throw it out into the Euphrates.
• 64 Then you shall say, 'Thus Babylon shall sink
  and not rise from the catastrophe that I will
  bring upon her. And they shall be weary.' NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 2621

• PROCLAMATION AGAINST TYRE
• 21 I will make you a terror, and you shall be no
  more though you are sought for, you will never
  be found again,' says the Lord GOD." NKJV
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO TYRE?
• WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO BABYLON? WHY?
• READ REVELATION 1821
• 21 Then a mighty angel took up a stone like a
  great millstone and threw it into the sea,
  saying, "Thus with violence the great city
  Babylon shall be thrown down, and shall not be
  found anymore. NKJV

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