Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 23:8
Who — This is the word of God, and not of man. The crowning city — Which was a royal city, and carried away the crown from all other cities. Princes — Equal to princes for wealth, and power, and reputation.
Who — This is the word of God, and not of man. The crowning city — Which was a royal city, and carried away the crown from all other cities. Princes — Equal to princes for wealth, and power, and reputation.
WHO HATH TAKEN THIS COUNSEL? - To whom is this to be traced? Is this the work of man, or is it the plan of God? - questions which would naturally arise at the contemplation of the ruin of a city so an...
CHAPTER 23 The Burden of Tyre 1. _Tyre's great disaster (Isaiah 23:1)_ 2. _The complete overthrow (Isaiah 23:6)_ 3. _Tyre's future restoration and degradation (Isaiah 23:15)_ Tyre typifies the commer...
ISAIAH 23. ORACLE ON TYRE. The date and authorship are alike very uncertain. If by Isaiah, the occasion may be the siege of Tyre by Shalmaneser about 727- 722 (p. 59), the historicity of which, howeve...
CROWNING. crown-giver: i.e. conferring crowns on other Phoenician cities....
This is the execution of Jehovah's purpose, and therefore irreversible. _the crowning city_ Or, THE CROWN-GIVER. Tyre is rightly so-called, inasmuch as some of her colonies (Kition, Tarshish and Cart...
WHO HATH TAKEN THIS COUNSEL, &C.— The prophet here informs us of the great executor of this judgment, namely, God himself. To do this the more elegantly, he introduces a chorus of men, astonished at t...
b. SHAKEN TEXT: Isaiah 23:8-14 8 Who hath purposed this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honorable of the earth? 9 Jehovah of hosts hat...
Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth? WHO - Answered in , "The Lord of hosts." THE CROWNING...
THE DOOM OF TYRE Tyre was a great mercantile centre of the ancient world, and at the time of the Hebrew monarchy chief state of Phœnicia, the parent of many colonies, and mistress of the Mediterranea...
TAKEN THIS COUNSEL] RV 'purposed this.' CROWNING _city_] alluding to the many dependent kings in her colonies....
Everywhere people gave great honour to the merchants from Tyre and Sidon because they were so successful....
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD CONTROLS THE FUTURE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 21 TO 30 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 23 All the verses in this chapter refer to both Tyre and Sidon. This is so even if on...
מִ֚י יָעַ֣ץ זֹ֔את עַל ־צֹ֖ר הַ מַּֽעֲטִירָ֑ה
CHAPTER XVIII TYRE; OR, THE MERCENARY SPIRIT 702 B.C. Isaiah 23:1 THE task, which was laid upon the religion of Israel while Isaiah was its prophet, was the task, as we have often told ourselves, o...
The burden of Tyre opens with a graphic description of her desolation. Her harbors are closed. Her borders are desolate. The sea, which had been her highway, is abandoned, and Egypt, her ally, is affr...
Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the (m) crowning [city], whose merchants [are] princes, whose traders [are] the honourable of the earth? (m) Who makes her merchants like princes....
_Earth. The merchants were as rich as kings, or the latter sent their merchandise to Tyre, Ezechiel xxvii. 33._...
There is hardly a passage in the whole prophecy of Isaiah more full and comprehensive than what is contained in these verses, to set forth man's nothingness, and the Lord's all-sufficiency. The Prophe...
8._Against crowning Tyre. _He adorns with this title the city which enriched many, as may be easily learned from the context; for when he calls her merchants “kings,” he plainly states that by the wor...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19 THROUGH 23. In Chapter s 19 and 20 Egypt shall be smitten in that day; but Jehovah will heal it. Egypt, Assyria, and Israel shall together be blessed of Je...
WHO HATH TAKEN THIS COUNSEL AGAINST TYRE, THE CROWNING [CITY],.... Which had a king over it, to whom it gave a crown; and which crowned its inhabitants with riches and plenty, and even enriched the ki...
Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning [city], whose merchants [are] princes, whose traffickers [are] the honourable of the earth? Ver. 8. _The crowning city._] Heb., The crowning or...
_Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre?_ Words of admiration. Who, and where, is he that could imagine, or durst attempt such a thing as this? This is the work of God, and not of man. _The crowning...
Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, which dispensed crowns to the rulers of its colonies, WHOSE MERCHANTS ARE PRINCES, WHOSE TRAFFICKERS ARE THE HONORABLE OF THE EARTH? The we...
THE FALL OF TYREV. 1. THE BURDEN OF TYRE, the proud Phoenician metropolis, which withstood the attacks of several Assyrian armies and endured a siege of thirteen years by Nebuchadnezzar, but was destr...
1-14 Tyre was the mart of the nations. She was noted for mirth and diversions; and this made her loth to consider the warnings God gave by his servants. Her merchants were princes, and lived like pri...
WHO HATH TAKEN THIS COUNSEL AGAINST TYRE? words of admiration: who and where is he that could imagine or durst attempt such a thing as this? This is the work of God, as is expressed, ISAIAH 23:9, and...
Isaiah 23:8 counsel H3289 (H8804) Tyre H6865 crowning H5849 (H8688) merchants H5503 (H8802) princes H8269 traders...
LAMENT OVER TYRE (ISAIAH 23:1). The final burden is the burden of Tyre and Sidon. These were two wealthy and powerful seaports on the Mediterranean coast from which ships went out to all parts of the...
CONTENTS: Burden of Tyre. Desolations preceding the final deliverance of Israel. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The proud boasts of worldly nations, who bid defiance to their neighbors, will surely be...
Isaiah 23:1. _The burden of Tyre._ This was one of the most ancient cities of Phœnicia, situate on a rock, seven hundred paces from the shore, though now joined to the land by the working of the sea....
_Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes_ TYRE, “THE CROWNING CITY” The speaker cannot drop his satire: he has got accustomed to it now; he is in his best vein of mockery. The crowning...
_The burden of Tyre_ THE PROPHECY AGAINST TYRE: LESSONS The Tarshish of this chapter is Spain. Chittim is the island of Cyprus. The word “merchant” is the same word that is rendered in other places...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 23:1 The fifth oracle concerns the judgment and redemption of Tyre. ⇐ ⇔...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 23:7 The devastation of the city prompts the deeper question, Who could decree the downfall of so great a human power? THE LORD OF HOSTS. See...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 23:1 THE BURDEN OF TYRE. We hero reach the last of the "burdens"—the concluding chapter of the series of denunciatory prophecies which commenced with Isaiah 13:1. It is an elegy "in...
Now in chapter 23 he takes up his burden against Tyre. Tyre was, of course, a seaport town. It was the area... The people of Tyre were known as Phoenicians. And so you who are versed in your ancient h...
Deuteronomy 29:24; Ezekiel 28:12; Ezekiel 28:2; Isaiah 10:8;...