I will make you a bare rock, and you will become a place to spread the fishing nets. You will never be rebuilt, for I, the LORD, have spoken, declares the Lord GOD.’
This prophecy is dated in the eleventh year, which was the year that Jerusalem was taken, and in the first day of the month, but it is not said what month, some think the month in which Jerusalem was taken, which was the fourth month, others the month after; or perhaps it was the first month, and so it was the first day of the year. Observe here, I.
Commenting on Ezekiel 26:1-14
And I will make thee like the top of a rock,.... Smooth and bare; See Gill on Eze 26:4, and thou shall be a place to spread nets upon; See Gill on Eze 26:5, thou shalt be built no more: this must be understood with some restriction and limitation; as that it should not be built any more in the same stately manner; or be...
He concludes in nearly the same words as he began (Eze 26:4-5). built no more--fulfilled as to the mainland Tyre, under Nebuchadnezzar. The insular Tyre recovered partly, after seventy years (Isa 23:17-18), but again suffered under Alexander, then under Antigonus, then under the Saracens at the beginning of the fourteenth century.