Eze 29:18-20 | TSK | e4.org | Nebuchadrezzar ; , a great Nebuchadnezzar was thirteen years employed in the siege. During this long siege, the soldiers must have endured great hardships; their heads would become bald by constantly wearing their helmets; and their shoulders be peeled by carrying materials to and from the works. yet St. Jerome asserts, on the authority of the Assyrian histories, that when the Tyrians saw their city must fall, they put their most valuable effects on board their ships, and fled with them to the islands, and their colonies, "so that, the city being taken, Nebuchadnezzar found nothing worthy of his labour."

‏ Ezekiel 29:18-20

Nebuchadrezzar Ezek 26:7-12; Jer 25:9, Jer 27:6

a great Nebuchadnezzar was thirteen years employed in the siege. During this long siege, the soldiers must have endured great hardships; their heads would become bald by constantly wearing their helmets; and their shoulders be peeled by carrying materials to and from the works.

yet St. Jerome asserts, on the authority of the Assyrian histories, that when the Tyrians saw their city must fall, they put their most valuable effects on board their ships, and fled with them to the islands, and their colonies, "so that, the city being taken, Nebuchadnezzar found nothing worthy of his labour."

I will Ezek 29:8-10, Ezek 30:10-12; Jer 43:10-13

take her spoil, and take her prey Heb. spoil her spoil, and prey her prey

labour or, hire

served 2Kgs 10:30; Isa 10:6-7, Isa 45:1-3; Jer 25:9