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This prophecy about the Phoenician port city Tyre, was issued \u201cin the eleventh year on the first of the month\u201d (1), but no month is specified. However, since the next verse accuses Tyre of rejoicing over Jerusalem (on \u201cAha!\u201d see <\/span>our comments to Chapter 25<\/span><\/a>), Eliezer of Beaugency deduced that \u201cJerusalem had already fallen\u201d and Radak wrote explicitly that the prophecy is to be dated to \u201cthe month of the destruction, i.e. Ab.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The exegetes also concurred that the cause for Tyre\u2019s rejoicing was their expectation that they would pick up the trade that had previously gone to Jerusalem, as epitomized in the commentary of Malbim on v.2:<\/span><\/p>\n

Jerusalem had been a commercial hub to which all nations would bring merchandise, hence, it was called \u201cthe gateway of the nations\u201d which they would all enter. Now [that the gateway was \u201cbroken\u201d], all trade will turn to Tyre\u2026 [which would say] now that the door has been opened by its destruction and [trade] has turned to me, I will be replete with Jerusalem\u2019s loss. To wit: \u201cWhat is this you are doing to Me, O Tyre, Sidon, and all the districts of Philistia? Are you requiting Me for something I have done, or are you doing something for My benefit? Quick as a flash, I will pay you back; for you have taken My gold and My silver, and have carried off My precious treasures to your palaces; and you have sold the people of Judah and the people of Jerusalem to the Ionians, so that you have removed them far away from their homeland\u201d (Joel 4:4-6).<\/span><\/p>\n

[Tyre] looted and plundered and gathered silver and slaves and was made full by the spoils [of Jerusalem\u2019s] destruction.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to Ezekiel\u2019s prophecy, Nebuchadnezzar was now going to turn his attention to Tyre and annihilate it (7 ff.). Moshe Greenberg supplied a strategic reason for the Babylonian attack:<\/span><\/p>\n

Nebuchadnezzar sought to secure his hold on Syria-Palestine by subjugating Egypt. To do this, he needed to control the coastal approach to Egypt, and perhaps even to possess a fleet and a base for it. Such considerations may be supposed to explain his starting a campaign in Phoenicia soon after Jerusalem\u2019s fall. (Anchor Bible: <\/span>Ezekiel<\/span><\/i>, 540).<\/span><\/p>\n

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