Ezekiel 27 - Introduction
_THE RICH SUPPLY OF TYRUS: THE GREAT AND IRRECOVERABLE FALL THEREOF._ _Before Christ 588._... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE RICH SUPPLY OF TYRUS: THE GREAT AND IRRECOVERABLE FALL THEREOF._ _Before Christ 588._... [ Continue Reading ]
TAKE UP A LAMENTATION, &C.— This alludes to the melancholy songs used at funerals, concerning which we spoke in our comment on the Lamentations; and wherein the women recounted every thing which was valuable or praise-worthy in the deceased, and then lamented his loss. Though indeed the prophet dwel... [ Continue Reading ]
WHICH ART A MERCHANT, &C.— _Which joinest people by commerce, through many isles._ Houbigant; who renders the beginning of the next verse, _Thy borders extend even to the middle of the sea._... [ Continue Reading ]
THY SHIP-BOARDS—OF SENIR— _Senir_ is the ancient name for _Hermon._ See Deuteronomy 3:9. _MASTS_— Though cedars have a thick and not a lofty trunk, masts consisting of different parts may be made of different cedars duly sized, or properly shaped if of too large a size.... [ Continue Reading ]
OF THE OAKS OF BASHAN— Bishop Newton observes upon this description of Tyre, that Cleopatra, sailing down the river Cydnus to meet Mark Antony, was not attended with greater finery and magnificence; nor have historians and poets painted the one in more lively colours than the prophet the other. Inst... [ Continue Reading ]
ISLES OF ELISHAH— _Isles of Greece._ It is remarkable that part of Peloponnesus was named _Elis_ among the Grecian writers. _Gebal_ in the ninth verse was a province of Phoenicia, near Tyre.... [ Continue Reading ]
OF LUD, AND OF PHUT— Or, _Of Ethopia, and of Mauritania,_ or _Africa._ Houbigant renders the latter part of the verse, _They hanged the shield and the helmet upon thy walls, and added to thy comeliness._ See the next verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
GAMMADIMS— _Tutelar images._ Spencer. Fuller supposes these _Gammadims_ to have been Phoenicians. The Hebrew word גמדים _gammadim_ is derived from גמד _gamad,_ which signifies _to be contracted, narrowed,_ &c. and Parkhurst is of opinion that these people were the inhabitants of the country about Tr... [ Continue Reading ]
TARSHISH— Or, _Tartessus._ Michaelis thinks that there was only the Spanish Tarshish; and that ships sailed to it from Ezion-geber round Africa. Spic. Geogr. Spain was anciently remarkable for silver mines. Plin. l. xxxiii. c. vi.... [ Continue Reading ]
JAVAN, TUBAL, AND MESECH— _Greece, the Tibareni, and Moschi,_ [situated near the Euxine sea] _the associates of thy merchandize, bring to thy marts slaves and brazen vessels._ Houbigant.... [ Continue Reading ]
TOGARMAH—-HORSES—HORSEMEN— Or, _Cappadocia—common horses,—war horses._ The _men of Dedan,_ in the next verse, probably means the Arabians.... [ Continue Reading ]
CORAL AND AGATE— _Silk, and rubies,_ or _crystal._... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEAT OF MINNITH, &C.— _Wheat, stacte, balsam, honey, oil, and resin._ Houbigant. See Parkhurst on the word פנג _pannag._... [ Continue Reading ]
WINE OF HELBON, AND WHITE WOOL— _Helbon_ is now _Aleppo. Ezekiel 27:19. Cassia and Calamus_] _Storax, and sweet cane._... [ Continue Reading ]
CANNEH— Houbigant and Grotius both read _Calane;_ for the neighbouring places are nearly the same as in Genesis, ch. 10:... [ Continue Reading ]
THY ROWERS HAVE BROUGHT THEE INTO GREAT WATERS— This is a proper allegory, says Bishop Warburton, with only one real sense; and it is managed by the prophet with that brevity and expedition, which a proper allegory demands, when used in the place of a metaphor. He is here speaking of Tyre under the... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SUBURBS SHALL SHAKE— _The neighbouring places._ Houbigant.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHAT CITY IS LIKE TYRUS, &C.— _What city was like Tyre, throughout the seas._ Houbigant.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE MERCHANTS—SHALL HISS AT THEE— The Chaldee renders it, _They shall be astonished;_ and this sense agrees better with the lamentations of the sea-faring-men spoken of in the preceding verses. See Jeremiah 19:8; Jeremiah 50:13. REFLECTIONS.—1st, Though Tyre was a heathen land, the prophet must mak... [ Continue Reading ]