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Ezekiel 27:2 Cross-References
Explore 10 cross-references for Ezekiel 27:2 from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, connecting Ezekiel chapter 27 verse 2 to related passages throughout the Bible.
“Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus;”
Ezekiel 27:2 (KJV)
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Commentary on Ezekiel 27:2
Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus—God commands Ezekiel to sing a funeral dirge (qinah, קִינָה) for a city not yet destroyed. The prophetic perfect tense treats future judgment as already accomplished—from God's perspective, Tyre is already fallen. The title "son of man" (Hebrew ben-adam, בֶּן־אָדָם) appears 93 times in Ezekiel, emphasizing the prophet's humanity in contrast to divine majesty. Ezekiel, a mortal man, speaks God's eternal word.A lamentation (qinah) was a specific literary form—3:2 meter Hebrew poetry expressing grief. That God commands mourning for a pagan cit...
Source: KJV Study Commentary
Cross-References for Ezekiel 27:2
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“Consider you”
“and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation”
“take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre”
“take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel”
“and lament over you”
“and tell you”
“the God of Armies”
“my anger and my wrath shall be poured out on this place”
“take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt”
“O house of Israel.”