Ezekiel 28:1-26

28:1-10 | Despite the riches of Tyre and the vast knowledge its people had gained by trading with cultures all over the known world, Ezekiel sang a funeral dirge for it and that both proclaimed and celebrated its rapid and catastrophic demise.

28:21-23 | Ezekiel does not prophesy total destruction for Sidon, as he did for Tyre; throughout ancient history, Tyre (30 miles to the south of Sidon) was the larger and more important of the two cities. Ezekiel does, however, predict that Sidon would have a bloody, diseased, and difficult history, and any chronicle of the city’s fortunes bears this out. Today Sidon continues to be a bustling, important Mediterranean city.

28:24-26 | The time will come when God will execute judgments on all those around them (Israel) who despise them, bring back the scattered nation to the Promised Land, and cause the people to dwell securely and safely in the territory which God had promised to His people through Abraham.