Ezekiel 29:18 meaning and explanation
“Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to labor strenuously against Tyre. Every head was made bald and every shoulder made raw. But he and his army received no wages from Tyre for the labor they expended on it.
Ezekiel 29:18, Berean Standard Bible
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Ezekiel 29:18 is part of a dated oracle given in the twenty seventh year of the exile, years after Ezekiel had earlier announced Tyre's fall. Here God addresses the prophet as "son of man" and describes Nebuchadnezzar's long siege of Tyre: the soldiers' heads were bald from helmets and their shoulders raw from carrying siege equipment, yet the city yielded no plunder to pay them.
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