And say to Tyre, O thou that dwelleth at the entrance of the sea, [which art] a merchant (a) of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O Tyre, thou hast said, I [am] of perfect beauty.
(a) Which serves all the world with your merchandise.
Verse Ezekiel 27:3. _THE ENTRY OF THE SEA_] Tyre was a small island, or rather rock, in the sea, at a short distance from the main land. We have already seen that there was another Tyre on the main la...
ENTRY - literally, “entries.” Ancient Tyre had two ports, that called the Sidonian to the north, the Egyptian to the south; the former exists to the present day. The term “entry of the sea” is natural...
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...
THE ENTRY, &c. Denoting the insular Tyre. PEOPLE. peoples. ISLES. coast, or maritime lands. THE LORD GOD. Hebrew. _Adonai Jehovah_. See note on Ezekiel 2:4....
_entry of the sea_ lit. _entries_, reference possibly being to the two harbours of Tyre, one of which was to the N.-E. of the island, called the Sidonian harbour, because looking towards Sidon; and th...
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._...
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...
And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty. O T...
27:3 situate (d-9) Or 'thou that dwellest.' isles, (e-23) Or 'maritime countries,' 'coasts.'...
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...
PEOPLE] RV 'peoples'; and so everywhere....
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
AT THE ENTRY OF THE SEA. — The word for “entry” in the original is plural, and means the approaches to the sea, or harbours. Tyre had two of these, both remarkably good: the “Egyptian,” facing the sou...
וְ אָמַרְתָּ֣ לְ צֹ֗ור _הַ_†_יֹּשֶׁ֨בֶת֙_† עַל...
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,...
_Entry, whence merchants may proceed from an excellent harbour to any place._...
It was said in the preceding Chapter, (Ezekiel 26:6), that Tyrus should know by the Lord's judgments, that He was the Lord. In this Chapter, the Lord commands his servant to put Tyrus in mind of her p...
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...
AND SAY UNTO TYRUS, O THOU THAT ART SITUATE AT THE ENTRY OF THE SEA,.... Of the Mediterranean sea; at the eastern part of it, not above half a mile from the continent; and so fit for a seaport, and a...
And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, [which art] a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I [am] of perfect beauty. V...
_Take up a lamentation for Tyrus_ This alludes to the mournful lamentations used at funerals, wherein the mourning women recounted every thing that was valuable or praiseworthy belonging to the deceas...
and say unto Tyrus, the direct address intensifying the force of the lament, O THOU THAT ART SITUATE AT THE ENTRY OF THE SEA, its double harbor giving it ready access to the Mediterranean Sea and to a...
DESCRIPTION OF THE GLORY AND MIGHT OF TYRE...
OF PERFECT BEAUTY: _ Heb._ perfect of beauty...
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...
Personate Tyre as near thee, and hearing what thou sayest unto or of her; describe her, that she may know thou speakest to her. THAT ART SITUATE; that dwellest, so the Hebrew. THE ENTRY, Heb. _entranc...
Ezekiel 27:3 say H559 (H8804) Tyre H6865 situated H3427 (H8802) entrance H3997 sea H3220 merchant...
‘The word of Yahweh came to me again, saying, “And you, son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyre. And say to Tyre: “You, O Tyre, have said, ‘I am perfect in beauty. Your borders are in the heart...
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...
Ezekiel 26:17; Ezekiel 27:10; Ezekiel 27:11; Ezekiel 27:12;...
At the entry — Heb. Entrances. She was about four furlongs, or half an English mile from the continent, as it were in the very door of the sea....