“He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field: and he shall make a fort against thee, and cast a mount against thee, and lift up the buckler against thee.”
He shall slay your daughters on the mainland with the sword, and he shall set up a siege wall against you and cast up a siege mound against you and raise a shield against you. The concrete military tactics—siege walls, siege mounds, protective shields—describe how Nebuchadnezzar will methodically destroy Tyre through overwhelming force and military engineering. The progression from open field slaughter to siege operations suggests a campaign that moves from peripheral destruction to the systematic reduction of the central stronghold. This military narrative serves theological purposes, depicting God's purposes working through historical military processes.
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