Verse Ezekiel 27:15. The men of Dedan] Dedan was one of the descendants of Abraham by Keturah, and dwelt in Arabia, Genesis 25:3. Ivory and ebony might come from that quarter. By way of distinction ivory is called both in Hebrew ש shen, and in Arabic [Arabic] shen, the TOOTH, as that beautiful substance is the tooth of the elephant.
The thread broken at Ezekiel 27:8 is taken up, and the various nations are enumerated which traded with Tyre. Ezekiel 27:12 TARSHISH - Tartessus in Spain (marginal references). Spain was rich in the...
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...
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The market of Tyre Several things are to be observed in this passage: 1. The representation is not that Tyre is traded with by the nations, though this is the fact lying under the figures employed. T...
_men of Dedan_ lit. sons of Dedan; LXX. sons of _the Rhodians_(_r_being read for _d_, as often). Dedan occurs again Ezekiel 27:20, in connexion with Arabian tribes, and in Ezekiel 25:13 it appears to...
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...
B. The Ship in her Ports of Call 27:12-25a TRANSLATION (12) Tarshish was your client because of the abundance of all kinds of wealth; silver, iron, tin and lead they traded for your wares. (13) Javan...
The men of Dedan were thy merchants; many isles were the merchandise of thine hand: they brought thee for a present horns of ivory and ebony. THE MEN OF DEDAN - near the Persian Sea: thus an avenue...
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...
DEDAN] see on Ezekiel 25:13....
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
DEDAN. — This Dedan is a descendant of Ham through Cush (Genesis 10:7). The tribe was located in Arabia, probably upon the shores of the Persian Gulf (Isaiah 21:13). The Dedan of Ezekiel 27:20, on the...
בְּנֵ֤י דְדָן֙ רֹֽכְלַ֔יִךְ אִיִּ֥ים רַבִּ֖ים סְחֹרַ֣ת...
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 Dedan [were] thy merchants; many isles [were] the merchandise of thy hand: they brought thee [for] a present (i) horns of ivory and ebony. (i) Meaning, unicorn's horns and elephant's teeth...
_Dedan. Septuagint, "Rhodians;" or rather Arabs are meant, ver. 20. They might receive ivory from Ethiopia. --- Teeth. Hebrew, "horns or tusks," which the elephant casts every year. The ivory is less...
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 DEDAN WERE THY MERCHANTS,.... Not Dedan in Idumea or Edom, but in Arabia, from Dedan the son of Raamah, Genesis 10:7: MANY ISLES WERE THE MERCHANDISE OF THINE HANDS; that is, many isles to...
The men of Dedan [were] thy merchants; many isles [were] the merchandise of thine hand: they brought thee [for] a present horns of ivory and ebony. Ver. 15. _The men of Dedan._] Arabians. Gen 10:7 Th...
_Tarshish was thy merchant_ Trafficked with thee. Of _Tarshish_, see note on Isaiah 2:16; Isaiah 23:1. _Javan, Tubal, and Meshech_ By _Javan_ is to be understood Greece, in which sense Alexander is st...
The men of Dedan, near the Persian Sea, Isaiah 21:13, WERE THY MERCHANTS, for the location of their country placed them on the great highway between the East and the West; MANY ISLES WERE THE MERCHAND...
DESCRIPTION OF THE COMMERCE 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...
DEDAN: see EZEKIEL 25:13. This Dedan was in Arabia, built by Dedan the son of Regina, not far from the Persian Gulf, and now called Daden, whence through the Red Sea they might convey their own mercha...
Ezekiel 27:15 men H1121 Dedan H1719 traders H7402 (H8802) many H7227 isles H339 market H5506 hand H3027 brought...
“The men of Dedan (LXX and some MSS have Rhodes, very similar in Hebrew, and see Ezekiel 27:20) traded with you, many coastlands were your markets (‘the market of your hand'), They brought you in pay...
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...
_Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches._ THE FAIRS OF TYRE Let us look in upon a world’s fair at Tyre. Ezekiel leads us through one department, and it is a horse...
_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 27:12 The impressive range of merchant connections begins and ends with TARSHISH, probably in southern Spain. Tyre’s trade stretched along the whole extent of the Mediterranean...
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...
1 Chronicles 1:32; 1 Chronicles 1:9; 1 Kings 10:22; Ezekiel 27:20;...
Isles — In the Indian seas, and in the Red — sea traded with thee. Horns — Elk's horns, or wild goats. Ebony — Is a very solid, heavy, shining, black wood, fit for many choice works....