Ezekiel 26:9
Good News Translation
They will pound in your walls with battering rams and tear down your towers with iron bars.

New Revised Standard Version
He shall direct the shock of his battering rams against your walls and break down your towers with his axes.

Contemporary English Version
He will command some of his troops to use large wooden poles to beat down your walls, while others use iron rods to knock down your watchtowers.

New American Bible
He shall pound your walls with battering-rams and break down your towers with his axes.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he shall set engines of war and battering rams against thy walls, and shall destroy thy towers with his arms.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he shall set engines of war and battering rams against thy walls, and shall destroy thy towers with his arms.

2 Chronicles 26:15 And he made in Jerusalem engines of diverse kinds, which he placed in the towers, and in the corners of the walls, to shoot arrows, and great stones: and his name went forth far abroad, for the Lord helped him, and had strengthened him.

Context
A Prophecy Against Tyre
8Thy daughters that are in the field, he shall kill with the sword: and he shall compass thee with forts, and shall cast up a mount round about: and he shall lift up the buckler against thee. 9And he shall set engines of war and battering rams against thy walls, and shall destroy thy towers with his arms.10By reason of the multitude of his horses, their dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and wheels, and chariots, when they shall go in at thy gates, as by the entrance of a city that is destroyed.…
Cross References
Ezekiel 21:22
On his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth in slaughter, to lift up the voice in howling, to set engines against the gates, to cast up a mount, to build forts.

Ezekiel 26:4
And they shall break down the walls of Tyre, and destroy the towers thereof: and I will scrape her dust from her, and make her like a smooth rock.

Ezekiel 26:8
Thy daughters that are in the field, he shall kill with the sword: and he shall compass thee with forts, and shall cast up a mount round about: and he shall lift up the buckler against thee.

Ezekiel 26:10
By reason of the multitude of his horses, their dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and wheels, and chariots, when they shall go in at thy gates, as by the entrance of a city that is destroyed.

Ezekiel 26:8
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