Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Ezekiel 27:28
The suburbs - Or, “precincts.” Tyre rose from the midst of the sea; her “precincts” were the surrounding waters and the adjoining coasts.
The suburbs - Or, “precincts.” Tyre rose from the midst of the sea; her “precincts” were the surrounding waters and the adjoining coasts.
Verse Ezekiel 27:28. _THE CRY OF THY PILOTS._] When the ship was dashed against the rocks by the violence of the winds and the waves, and all hope of life was taken away, then a universal cry was set...
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...
SUBURBS. The root garash. to drive out or about. When used of. city it. suburbs; but, when used of the sea, it. the driving and casting about of the waves. Compare Isaiah 37:20. It means here that the...
_the suburbs_ According to tradition (Baer, _Ezek_.) the term here is differently pointed from that rendered "suburbs," e.g. ch. Ezekiel 45:2. The latter term means the free space surrounding a city o...
THE SUBURBS SHALL SHAKE— _The neighbouring places._ Houbigant....
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...
C. The Ship Sinking Beneath the Waves 27:25b-36 TRANSLATION (25b) So you became full and very heavy[418] in the heart of the seas. (26) Into great waters your rowers have brought you; the east wind h...
The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots. THE SUBURBS SHALL SHAKE AT THE SOUND OF THE CRY OF THY PILOTS - the buildings of Tyre on the adjoining continent....
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
SUBURBS. — This word means _an open place_ around a building or city. There was no land around Tyre, and it is here used, therefore, in a general sense — all thy surroundings....
לְ קֹ֖ול זַעֲקַ֣ת חֹבְלָ֑יִךְ יִרְעֲשׁ֖וּ מִגְרֹשֹֽׁות׃...
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,...
The (m) common lands shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots. (m) That is, the cities near you, as Zidon, Arund and others....
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...
THE SUBURBS SHALL SHAKE AT THE SOUND OF THE CRY OF THY PILOTS. Or governors, as the Targum; and so the Vulgate Latin, and all the Oriental versions: the allegory of a ship wrecked is still continued:...
The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots. Ver. 28. _The suburbs shall shake._] Or, The waves, or the boats which they throw out of the ship. See on Ezekiel 26:10 . _ Of the cry...
_Thy riches, &c., and all thy company, shall fall into the midst of the seas_ Shall be as utterly ruined and destroyed as if they were sunk in the sea by a shipwreck. Or, this may signify their fallin...
THE FALL OF TYRE...
The suburbs, the smaller towns immediately dependent upon Tyre, SHALL SHAKE AT THE SOUND OF THE CRY OF THY PILOTS, as they, the very ones upon whom the ship of state depended, found themselves facing...
SUBURBS: Or, waves...
26-36 The most mighty and magnificent kingdoms and states, sooner or later, come down. Those who make creatures their confidence, and rest their hopes upon them, will fall with them: happy are those...
The lesser cities on _terra firma_ shall be alarmed with summons of their governors to put themselves in a posture of defence. Or, the waves, an elegant hyperbole, thus read; The very waves, which roa...
Ezekiel 27:28 common-land H4054 shake H7493 (H8799) sound H6963 cry H2201 pilots H2259 suburbs - or waves shake -...
“At the sound of the cry of your rope-pullers, the countryside will shake, And all that handle the oar, the mariners, all the rope-pullers of the sea, Will come down from their ships, they will stan...
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...
_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...
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 15:14; Ezekiel 26:10; Ezekiel 26:15; Ezekiel 27:35; Ez
The suburbs — The suburbs, which are nearest the sea, shall first hear the out — cries of pilots, and mariners....