George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Ezekiel 27:23
Haran, or Charæ, famous for the residence of Abraham and the defeat of Crassus. --- Eden, the province where Paradise was situated.
Haran, or Charæ, famous for the residence of Abraham and the defeat of Crassus. --- Eden, the province where Paradise was situated.
Verse Ezekiel 27:23. _HARAN_] In Mesopotamia; well known in Scripture. _CANNEH_] Or _Chalane_; see Genesis 10:10. It is supposed to be a cape or port of Arabia Felix, on the Indian Sea. _EDEN_] Equ...
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...
HARAN. Now Harran, between the Euphrates and the Khabour (Gen 11:35). CANNEH. Probably now Calneh,. Babylonian city (Genesis 10:10). EDEN. In Mesopotamia (2 Kings 19:12.Isaiah 37:12.
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...
The places named may be regarded as an extension of the line from S. to N. in Ezekiel 27:19, though the names are given rather in the order W. to E. Harran in Mesopotamia, two days" journey S.E. of Ed...
CANNEH— Houbigant and Grotius both read _Calane;_ for the neighbouring places are nearly the same as in Genesis, ch. 10:...
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...
Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad, were thy merchants. HARAN - the dwelling-place of Abraham in Mesopotamia after he moved from Ur () HARAN - the dwelling-pl...
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...
HARAN] in Mesopotamia (Genesis 11:31). CANNEH] perhaps Calneh, a Babylonian city (Genesis 10:10). EDEN] either Beth-Eden, a state in the W. of Mesopotamia, mentioned in the inscriptions and in 2 Kings...
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
HARAN, AND CANNEH, AND EDEN. — The description now turns from Arabia to the Tyrian trade with Mesopotamia. Haran, important in the story of Abraham (Genesis 11:31; Genesis 12:4), the Charræ of the Rom...
חָרָ֤ן וְ כַנֵּה֙ וָ עֶ֔דֶן רֹכְלֵ֖י שְׁבָ֑א
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...
HARAN, AND CANNEH, AND EDEN,.... Haran was a city of Mesopotamia, the same with Haran, where Abraham dwelt awhile, Acts 7:2, the Charrae of the Parthians, famous for the defeat of Crassus. Canneh is t...
Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, [and] Chilmad, [were] thy merchants. Ver. 23. _Haran._] In Mesopotamia, or Charrae, in Parthia, where Crassus was slain. _ And Channeh,_]...
_Arabia, &c., occupied with thee_ Hebrew, ידן סחרי, _were the merchants of thy hand;_ that is, they took off thy manufactures (see Eze 27:15) in exchange for cattle, in which their substance chiefly c...
Haran, in Mesopotamia, AND CANNEH, the later Ctesiphon, a commercial center on the Tigris, AND EDEN, in Mesopotamia, THE MERCHANTS OF SHEBA, ASSHUR, or Assyria, AND CHILMAD, west of the Euphrates, WER...
DESCRIPTION OF THE COMMERCE OF TYRE...
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...
HARAN; Haran or Charran in Mesopotamia, where Abraham dwelt. CANNEH; no where else mentioned, supposed to be the same with Calneh, GENESIS 10:10, afterwards Ctesiphon, a pleasant city on Tigris, some...
Ezekiel 27:23 Haran H2771 Canneh H3656 Eden H5729 merchants H7402 (H8802) Sheba H7614 Assyria H804 Chilmad H3638 m
“Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traders of Sheba, Asshur and Chilmad were your traders, These were your traders in choice wares, in wrappings of blue and embroidered work, and in chests of rich appar...
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...
2 Kings 19:12; Acts 7:4; Amos 1:5; Amos 6:2; Genesis 10:10;...
Haran — In Mesopotamia, where Abraham dwelt. Canneh — This is supposed to be the same with Calneh, Genesis 10:10, afterwards Ctesiphon, a pleasant city on Tigris. Ashur — Assyria. Chilmad — A country...