George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Ezekiel 27:18
Rich. Hebrew Chelbon; perhaps the city Chelba, Judges i. 31. The kings of Persia used this wine, and planted vines at Damascus on purpose.
Rich. Hebrew Chelbon; perhaps the city Chelba, Judges i. 31. The kings of Persia used this wine, and planted vines at Damascus on purpose.
Verse Ezekiel 27:18. _DAMASCUS WINE OF HELBON_] Now called by the Turks Haleb, and by us Aleppo. _WHITE WOOL._] Very fine wool: wool of a fine quality. Some think _Milesian wool_ is meant....
The thread broken at Ezekiel 27:8 is taken up, and the various nations are enumerated which traded with Tyre. Ezekiel 27:12 TARSHISH - Tartessus in Spain (marginal references). Spain was rich in the...
Ezekiel 27:1. Ezekiel 27:1 give an interesting description of the world-wide commerce and glory of this proud world city. “Sic transit gloria mundi,” thus passeth the glory of the world! Of the proud...
EZEKIEL 27. THE DIRGE OVER TYRE. The interest of the brilliant poem that follows is greatly enhanced by the description of the commerce of Tyre in a passage (Ezekiel 27:9_ b_ - Ezekiel 27:25_ a_) rema...
WINE. Hebrew. _yayin_. App-27. HELBON. Now _Helbon_, in the mountains, thirteen miles north of Damascus....
The market of Tyre Several things are to be observed in this passage: 1. The representation is not that Tyre is traded with by the nations, though this is the fact lying under the figures employed. T...
_wares of thy making_ THE MULTITUDE OF THY WORKS, i.e. the works done for Tyre, all of which are hers. _multitude of all riches_ or, BECAUSE OF EVERY KIND OF RICHES. _wine of Helbon_ This is repeated...
WINE OF HELBON, AND WHITE WOOL— _Helbon_ is now _Aleppo. Ezekiel 27:19. Cassia and Calamus_] _Storax, and sweet cane._...
II. THE LAMENTATION OVER TYRE 27:1-36 Chapter 27 consists of an allegorical dirge song artistically interrupted by a prose section. Tyre is pictured as a beautiful ship superbly fitted out and manned...
B. The Ship in her Ports of Call 27:12-25a TRANSLATION (12) Tarshish was your client because of the abundance of all kinds of wealth; silver, iron, tin and lead they traded for your wares. (13) Javan...
Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and white wool. DAMASCUS WAS THY MERCHANT ... IN THE WINE OF HELBON -...
HELBON] a wine-growing district 13 m. N. of Damascus....
THE WRECK OF THE GALLANT SHIP Under the figure of a ship, splendidly equipped, fully manned, and richly laden, but steered into stormy waters and wrecked, Ezekiel describes the fall of Tyre. In Ezeki...
EZEKIEL: “THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD” GOD’S PLANS FOR *ISRAEL AND THE NATIONS EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 25 TO 39 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 27 A FUNERAL SONG FOR TYRE – EZEKIEL 27:1-11 V1 The
WINE OF HELBON. — Helbon is identified with a village of the same name, three and a half hours north of Damascus, rich in ruins, and still devoted to the culture of the vine, from which the costliest...
דַּמֶּ֧שֶׂק סֹחַרְתֵּ֛ךְ בְּ רֹ֥ב מַעֲשַׂ֖יִךְ מֵ...
TYRE (CONTINUED): SIDON Ezekiel 27:1; Ezekiel 28:1 THE remaining oracles on Tyre (Chapter s 27, Ezekiel 28:1) are somewhat different both in subject and mode of treatment from the chapter we have jus...
At the command of Jehovah, Ezekiel then took up a lamentation for Tyre. This took the form of a pictorial representation of her as a gallant ship trafficking among the nations and ultimately wrecked,...
I have not interrupted the reading of the whole Chapter, for from the beginning to the close of the Chapter, it is but one and the same subject. The riches, trade, and commerce of Tyrus, fills the who...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 26, 27, AND 28. Although in a certain sense upon Israel's territory, Tyre has another character, and is the subject of a separate prophecy (chaps. 26-28), bec...
DAMASCUS WAS THY MERCHANT IN THE MULTITUDE OF THE WARES OF THY MAKING,.... Of the many things manufactured at Tyre, the inhabitants of Damascus, once the chief city of Syria, took some: FOR THE MULTI...
_Syria was thy merchant_, &c. From what is said here, we may conclude that the inhabitants of Tyre were exceedingly industrious, skilful in arts, and politic; for here almost all nations are described...
DESCRIPTION OF THE COMMERCE OF TYRE...
Damascus, the metropolis of Northern Syria, WAS THY MERCHANT IN THE MULTITUDE OF THE WARES OF THY MAKING, that is, also an important customer in buying Tyrian manufactures, FOR THE MULTITUDE OF ALL RI...
1-25 Those who live at ease are to be lamented, if they are not prepared for trouble. Let none reckon themselves beautified, any further than they are sanctified. The account of the trade of Tyre int...
DAMASCUS; a very ancient and wealthy city of Syria, and the royal city. THE WARES OF THY MAKING; see the phrase EZEKIEL 27:16. FOR THE MULTITUDE OF ALL RICHES: though the Tyrians had many rich and lov...
Ezekiel 27:18 Damascus H1834 merchant H5503 (H8802) abundance H7230 made H4639 many H7230 items H1952 wine H3196
“Syria (Aram) was your merchant by reason of your plentiful handyworks, They traded for your wares with emeralds, purple and embroidered work, and fine linen and coral and rubies. Judah and the land...
CONTENTS: Lamentation for Tyre. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel. CONCLUSION: God takes notice of the vain conceits men have of themselves in their prosperity. When they pride themselves on pomp and pleasur...
Ezekiel 27:6. _The isles of Chittim._ Cilicia, Cyprus, Macedonia, the Greek islands, or Apulia on the shores of Italy. Thus critics take the word in a general sense. Ezekiel 27:9. _Gebal,_ a district...
_Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches._ THE FAIRS OF TYRE Let us look in upon a world’s fair at Tyre. Ezekiel leads us through one department, and it is a horse...
_Take up a lamentation for Tyrus._ A PROUD CITY The men of the world are wise, choosing the fittest places for their own advantage and interest. Let us learn so much of the men of the world, to be w...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 27:1 This second installment of the prophecy against TYRE is both simple and complex. It follows a simple story line, in the form of a lament, but the language and technical de...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 27:12 The impressive range of merchant connections begins and ends with TARSHISH, probably in southern Spain. Tyre’s trade stretched along the whole extent of the Mediterranean...
TYRE’S FORMER GREATNESS, SUGGESTING A LAMENTATION OVER HER SAD DOWNFALL (Chap. 27) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—“The lamentation commences with a picture of the glory of the city of Tyre, its situation, its arch...
EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 27:2 TAKE UP A LAMENTATION FOR TYRUS. The dirge over the merchant-city that follows, the doom _sic transit gloria mundi, _worked out with a fullness of detail which reminds us of t...
So the word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation (Ezekiel 27:1-2) This is a wailing, a cry for Tyrus. This is lamenting the destruction that is come. An...
1 Kings 11:24; 1 Kings 11:25; Acts 9:2; Genesis 15:2; Isaiah 7:8...