Ezekiel's concession on Tyre

Sixteen years later the same book concedes the campaign failed to pay: Nebuchadnezzar 'had no wages, nor his army, for Tyrus,' and Egypt is reassigned to him as compensation. The concession sits in the same scroll as the oracle it undercuts.

In plain words

Sixteen years after the oracle, Ezekiel concedes that Nebuchadnezzar's army got no wages from Tyre, and gives him Egypt instead. The admission sits in the same scroll as the prophecy it undercuts and was copied for twenty-five centuries: a record that keeps its own miss was not edited to persuade.

The mechanism

REFERENCE — a record that preserves its own disconfirmation was not curated for persuasion. A forger deletes this verse; the custodians copied it for two and a half thousand years, and that is a fact about the chain of custody, not about Tyre.

Scripture

Ezekiel 29:17–20

How it was checked

• EvidenceT3 SCRIPTURE; Status: COMMITTED
• Letter eraTHE PROPHETS AND THE ROAD 776 BC to 4 BC
• SourcesSCRIPTURE — Ezekiel 29:17-20, against Ezekiel 26:7-14; two independently dated oracles sixteen years apart