George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Ezekiel 27:19
Dan: the citizens of Peneas, the tribe of Dan was in captivity. Grotius places these nations in Zeilan, (Calmet) or Ceylon. (Haydock)
Dan: the citizens of Peneas, the tribe of Dan was in captivity. Grotius places these nations in Zeilan, (Calmet) or Ceylon. (Haydock)
Verse Ezekiel 27:19. _DAN ALSO AND JAVAN_] It is probable that both these words mean some of the Grecian islands. _GOING TO AND FRO_] They both _took_ and _brought-imported_ and _exported_: but מאוז...
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...
DAN. Hebrew Vedan, or Wedaungoing to and fro. Hebrew. _Meuzzal_. Margin _Meuzzal_. from Uzal. Compare Genesis 10:27....
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...
_Dan also and Javan_ This is certainly incorrect; none of the verses begins with _and_or also, and any reference to Dan is out of the question. The word rendered "going to and fro" was translated by G...
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...
Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market. DAN ALSO. None of the other places enumerated commence with the copula (also; Hebrew...
27:19 Uzal (c-5) Probably Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, Arabia. see Genesis 10:27 . traffic. (d-18) Lit. 'barter.' so vers. 25,33,34....
DAN ALSO] RV 'Vedan.' GOING TO AND FRO] RM 'from Uzal.' Vedan and Uzal are uncertain localities....
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
DAN ALSO AND JAVAN. — This is the only instance in this enumeration in which the name of a people is introduced with a conjunction. Besides this structural difficulty, there seems no appropriateness i...
וְדָ֤ן וְ יָוָן֙ מְ אוּזָּ֔ל בְּ עִזְבֹונַ֖יִ
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...
DAN ALSO AND JAVAN, GOING TO AND FRO, OCCUPIED IN THY FAIRS,.... Either the inhabitants of the tribe of Dan in general; or of Laish, sometime called Dan, and in later times Caesarea Philippi, which wa...
Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market. Ver. 19. _Dan also._] Anciently called Laish. Jdg 18:29 Javan, or the Grecians, were g...
_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...
Dan also, or Wedan, probably a district in Arabia, AND JAVAN, in this instance a settlement in Arabia, GOING TO AND FRO OCCUPIED IN THY FAIRS, taking part likewise in the Tyrian trade; BRIGHT IRON, wr...
DESCRIPTION OF THE COMMERCE OF TYRE...
GOING TO AND FRO: Or, Meuzall...
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...
If it were the tribe of Dan, it must be understood of a time before the captivity of the ten tribes; but there is a learned man tells us of Dana a city of Taprobana, or the island Zeilan mentioned by...
Ezekiel 27:19 Dan H2051 (H8676) H1835 Javan H3120 paid H5414 (H8804) wares H5801 forth H235 ...
“Vedan and Javan traded with yarn for your wares, Wrought iron, cassia and calamus were among your merchandise.” Vedan and this Javan are both unknown. The latter may have been a Greek conclave in A...
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...
OLD IRON Bright iron. Ezekiel 27:19. Rust. Matthew 6:19. Today we have two texts and they have both come with me to the pulpit. The first is “bright iron,” and here you have a nice, bright, sharp p...
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...
Exodus 30:23; Exodus 30:24; Judges 18:29; Psalms 45:8; Song of
Javan — In the isle of Meroe, in Egypt....