The Gammadims were in thy towers. — No people of this name is known, and it is extremely unlikely that the responsible posts upon the watch-towers would have been entrusted to foreigners. The word occurs only here, and is probably not a proper name, but should be translated brave men.
Verse Ezekiel 27:11. _THE GAMMADIMS WERE IN THY TOWERS_] Some think these were a people of Phoenicia; others, that _tutelar images_ are meant; others, that the word expresses _strong men_, who acted...
The prophet here leaves the allegory of the ship to describe the armies of the Tyrians composed of mercenary soldiers. Ezekiel 27:10 PERSIA - The name of this people does not occur in the more ancien...
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...
MEN. sons. Gammadims: or, valiant men....
_with thine army_ It is scarcely possible to render: _men of Arvad, they were_thine army. Some proper name seems required: the men of Arvad and of … Cornill conjectures Hethlon (Ezekiel 47:15; Ezekiel...
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, narro...
A. The Ship Prepared for Sailing 27:1-11 TRANSLATION (1) And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, (2) NOW as for you, son of man, take Up a lamentation over Tyre, (3) and say to Tyre, who dwell...
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...
The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: they hanged their shields upon thy walls round about; they have made thy beauty perfect. THE...
27:11 Gammadim (m-16) Or 'fighting-men.'...
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...
GAMMADIM] a word of unknown reference....
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
בְּנֵ֧י אַרְוַ֣ד וְ חֵילֵ֗ךְ עַל ־חֹומֹותַ֨יִךְ֙...
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 men of Arvad with thy army [were] upon thy walls on all sides, and the (e) Gammadims were in thy towers: they hung their shields upon thy walls on every side; they have made thy beauty perfect. ...
_The Pygmeans. That is, strong and valiant men. In Hebrew Gammadim. (Challoner) --- He does not speak of those fabulous men hardly a cubit high. Gomed signifying a "cubit," has caused them to be style...
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 MEN OF ARVAD, WITH THINE ARMY WERE UPON THY WALLS ROUND ABOUT,.... Placed there for the defence of the city, to watch against an enemy, lest it should be surprised; here they were upon the patrol...
The men of Arvad with thine army [were] upon thy walls round about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: they hanged their shields upon thy walls round about; they have made thy beauty perfect. Ver....
_The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners_ So great was the opulence and pride of the Tyrians, that they hired foreigners to do the more laborious and menial employments, and would do noth...
The men of Arvad, also a hired band, WITH THINE ARMY WERE UPON THY WALLS ROUND ABOUT, the greater part of the garrison proper thus consisting of native troops, AND THE GAMMADIMS WERE IN THY TOWERS, co...
DESCRIPTION OF THE GLORY AND MIGHT 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...
OLBGrk;OLBHeb; ARVAD: see EZEKIEL 27:8. WITH THINE ARMY; mixed with other hired soldiers, made up these military forces. UPON THY WALLS ROUND ABOUT; kept guard upon the walls. THE GAMMADIMS; some say...
Ezekiel 27:11 Men H1121 Arvad H719 army H2428 walls H2346 around H5439 Gammad H1575 towers H4026 hung H8518 ...
TYRE'S MERCENARIES. Tyre was wealthy and could pay for her own defence by hiring mercenaries from distant places. “Persia and Lud and Put were in your army, your men of war, They hung the shield an...
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...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 27:11 The identities of the final group of place names are uncertain. They complete the BEAUTY boasted of in vv. Ezekiel 27:3....
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...
Ezekiel 27:3; Ezekiel 27:4; Ezekiel 27:8...
With — Mixed with other hired soldiers. The Gammadim — Probably men of Gammade, a town of Phoenicia....