Ezekiel 26:9

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and tear down your towers with his weapons.

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  • 2 Chr 26:15 : 15 In Jerusalem he made war machines carefully designed to shoot arrows and large stones from the towers and corners of the walls. He became very famous, for he received tremendous support and became powerful.

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    8He will kill your daughters in the field with the sword. He will build a siege wall against you, erect a siege ramp against you, and raise a great shield against you.

  • Ezek 26:10-12
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    10He will cover you with the dust kicked up by his many horses. Your walls will shake from the noise of the horsemen, wheels, and chariots when he enters your gates like those who invade through a city’s broken walls.

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    4They will destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers. I will scrape her soil from her and make her a bare rock.

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  • Jer 22:7
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