Ezekiel 27:5

They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee. THEY HAVE MADE ALL THY SHIP BOARDS OF FIR TREES OF SENIR - or 'Shenir,' the Amorite name of Hermon, or the southern height of Antilibanus (); the Sidonian name was Sirion. "All thy ... boards:" dual in Hebrew, 'double-boards'-namely, placed in a double order on the two sides of which the ship consisted (Vatablus); or referring to the two sides or the two ends, the prow and the stern, which every ship has (Munster). THEY HAVE TAKEN CEDARS FROM LEBANON TO MAKE MASTS FOR THEE - "cedars," most suited for "masts," from their height and durability....

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 intimates, that God's eye is upon men when employed in worldly business. Not only when at church, praying and hearing, but when in markets and fairs, buying and selling. In all our dealings we should keep a conscience void of offence. God, as the common Father of mankind, makes one country abound in one commodity, and another in another, serviceable to the necessity or to the comfort and ornament of human life. See what a blessing trade and merchandise are to mankind, when followed in the fear of God. Besides necessaries, an abundance of things are made valuable only by custom; yet God allows us to use them. But when riches increase, men are apt to set their hearts upon them, and forget the Lord...

Verse Ezekiel 27:5. _FIR TREES OF SENIR_] _Senir_ is a mountain which the Sidonians called Sirion, and the Hebrews _Hermon_, Deuteronomy 3:9. It was beyond Jordan, and extended from Libanus to the mountains of Gilead....

FIR-TREES (OR, CYPRESS) OF SENIR - The name by which the Amorites knew Mount Hermon....

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 the Homeric catalogue of ships ('Iliad,' 2:484-770), is almost, if not altogether, without a parallel in the history of literature. It can scarcely have rested on anything but personal knowledge. Ezekiel, we must believe, had, at some time or other in his life, trod the sinful streets of the great city, and noted the mingled crowd of many nations and in many costumes that he met there, just as we infer from Dante's vivid description of the dockyards of Venice ('Inf.,' 21.7-15) that he had visited that city. Apart from its poetic or prophetic interest, it is for us almost the _locus classicus _as to the geography and commerce of t

THEY HAVE MADE ALL THY SHIP BOARDS OF FIR TREES OF SENIR,.... The same with Sion and Hermon, which the Sidonians called Sirion, and the Amorites Shenir, Deuteronomy 3:9 here, it seems, grew the best of fir trees, of which the Tyrians made boards and planks for shipping; of these the two sides of the ship, as the word r here used in the dual number is thought to signify, or the fore and hind decks, were made. The Targum is, "with fir trees of Senir they built for thee all thy bridges;'' the planks from which they went from one ship to another; but these are of too small consequence to be mentioned; rather the main of the ship is intended, which was built of fir planks; but ours made of oak are much preferable: THEY HAVE TAKEN CEDARS FROM LEBANON, TO MAKE MASTS FOR THEE; large poles for the yards and sails to be fastened to, for receiving the wi

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 and wicked mistress of the sea nothing but ruins remain and her very site is no longer known. What her past glory was is made known by the prophet, yet Ezekiel never had been to that city, nor did he have any knowledge of her grandeur, her great wealth and far reaching commerce. God revealed all unto him. The description of her great commerce reminds us of that coming world-system as described in the last book of the Bible, the Revelation. Babylon the Great will be both an ecclesiastical and commercial world center. Her commerce is just like the commerce of Tyrus...

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_) remarkable alike for its textual difficulty and for its importance as a source for our knowledge of the trade of the ancient world. Tyre is compared to a gallant ship, of finished beauty, with equipments the finest and costliest, manned and piloted by the most skilful of sailors (Ezekiel 27:1). In Ezekiel 27:5, Senir = Herman. In Ezekiel 27:6, Kittim =

SHIP BOARDS. planks. FIR. cypress. SENIR. Mount Hermon (Deuteronomy 3:9)....

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....