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HE STRETCHED OUT HIS HAND - That is, Yahweh (see Isaiah 23:9). To
stretch out the hand is indicative of punishment (see the notes at
Isaiah 5:25; Isaiah 9:12), and means that God has resolved to infli...
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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...
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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...
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THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4.
THE MERCHANT CITY. Tyre, or Phoenician coast. Hosea 12:7.
THEREOF: or, which are upon it....
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The third strophe, as usually explained, deals mainly with the
emancipation of the Phœnician colonies from the somewhat stringent
control of Tyre. But the passage presents many difficulties; and from...
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_He stretched out his hand, &c._ R.V. HE HATH STRETCHED OUT … HATH
SHAKEN. Cf. ch. Isaiah 5:25; Isaiah 14:26-27. The _kingdoms_are
specially Phœnicia and its dependencies.
_the merchant_city] Read CAN...
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HE STRETCHED OUT HIS HAND— We have here the latter member of the
period concerning the grand projector and executor of the destruction
of Tyre; where, in the 11th verse, the prophet tells us that the...
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b. SHAKEN
TEXT: Isaiah 23:8-14
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Who hath purposed this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose
merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honorable of the
earth?
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Jehovah of hosts hat...
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He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the
LORD hath given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy
the strong holds thereof.
HE - Yahweh.
HE SHOOK THE KINGDOM...
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AGAINST _.. city_] RV 'concerning Canaan,' i.e. Phœnicia....
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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...
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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...
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People in Tyre depended on the sea for their trade. God’s ‘power
over the sea’ means that God also controls the use of the sea by
Tyre’s merchants....
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יָדֹו֙ נָטָ֣ה עַל ־הַ יָּ֔ם
הִרְגִּ֖יז מַמְלָ
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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...
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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...
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Here we are brought acquainted with the means the Lord will make use
of, for the overthrow of Tyre. The Chaldeans shall be the Lord's
instruments; and what adds to the aggravation of Tyre's sorrow, to...
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11._He stretched out his hand over the sea. _It is thought that the
prediction which the Prophet uttered, about the destruction of Tyre,
is here confirmed by examples; namely, that the Lord has given...
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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...
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HE STRETCHED OUT HIS HAND OVER THE SEA,.... That is, the Lord of
hosts, who had purposed to destroy Tyre, stretched out his hand of
power over it, called the sea, as in Isaiah 23:4 because situated in...
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_He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the
LORD hath given a commandment against the merchant [city], to destroy
the strong holds thereof._
Ver. 11. _He stretched out his han...
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_He_ Namely, the Lord, mentioned in the latter part of the verse;
_stretched out his hand over the sea_ That is, Tyre, called the sea,
(Isaiah 23:4,) to overthrow it. _He shook_ Hebrew, הרגיז, _he
mad...
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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...
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He, Jehovah, stretched out His hand over the sea, as the One who has
absolute power over all the forces of nature; HE SHOOK THE KINGDOMS,
putting them in commotion to carry out His plans. THE LORD HAT...
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AGAINST THE MERCHANT CITY:
Or, concerning a merchant man
STRONG HOLDS:
Or, strengths...
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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...
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HE, the Lord, expressed ISAIAH 23:9, stretched out his hand to strike
it, the antecedent being put for the consequent, OVER THE SEA; or,
_against the sea_, i.e. against Tyrus, the daughter of the sea,...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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_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...
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 23:1 The fifth oracle concerns the judgment
and redemption of Tyre.
⇐ ⇔...
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 23:11 HE HAS STRETCHED OUT HIS HAND OVER THE
SEA in sovereign authority (see Exodus 14:16). Tyre and Sidon were
part of what once was...
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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...
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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...
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Exodus 15:8; Ezekiel 26:10; Ezekiel 26:15; Ezekiel 27:34; Eze
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He — The Lord. Shook — Heb. he made the kingdoms to tremble; the
neighbouring and confederate kingdoms, who might justly quake at her
fall, for the dreadfulness and unexpectedness of the thing; and
be...