Isaiah 23:3

And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations. BY GREAT WATERS - the wide waters of the sea. SEED - the grain, or crop, as in ; . OF SIHOR - literally, dark-coloured, from shahhar, to be black; applied to the Nile, as the Greek, melas, anciently Kmelas: Latin, melo (Servius, 'Georgics,' 4: 291; 'AEneid,' 1: 745), to express the dark turbid colours given to its waters by the fertilizing soil which it deposits at its yearly overflow (). The name Nilus is akin to the Sanskrit, Nilah, blue. In hieroglyphics the name of the country is KEM - i:e., black. In painted sculptures the Nile-god is coloured red during the...

3._And by great waters. _He intimates that the riches of Tyre will not prevent it from being destroyed; and therefore he extols its wealth, in order that the judgment of God may be more manifest, and that all may know that it was no ordinary calamity that befel it; and the more unexpected it was, the more evidently would it appear to be the work of God. _The seed of the Nile. _(105) By an elegant expression he describes the wealth of Tyre; for since the Nile supplied it with wheat and other necessaries of life, and since a great quantity of corn was brought to it out of Egypt, he says that it had fields and _sowing _on the course of the Nile, just as the inhabitants of Venice say that their harvest is on the sea, because they have nothing that grows at home, but all that is necessary for food is brought to them by commerce. The Prophet speaks of the inhabitants of Tyre in the same manner...

1-14 Tyre was the mart of the nations. She was noted for mirth and diversions; and this made her loth to consider the warnings God gave by his servants. Her merchants were princes, and lived like princes. Tyre being destroyed and laid waste, the merchants should abandon her. Flee to shift for thine own safety; but those that are uneasy in one place, will be so in another; for when God's judgments pursue sinners, they will overtake them. Whence shall all this trouble come? It is a destruction from the Almighty. God designed to convince men of the vanity and uncertainty of all earthly glory. Let the ruin of Tyre warn all places and persons to take heed of pride; for he who exalts himself shall be abased. God will do it, who has all power in his hand; but the Chaldeans shall be the instruments....

Verse Isaiah 23:3. _THE SEED OF SIHOR _- "The seed of the Nile"] The Nile is called here _Shichor_, as it is Jeremiah 2:18, and 1 Chronicles 13:5. It had this name from the _blackness_ of its waters, charged with the mud which it brings down from Ethiopia when it overflows, _Et viridem_ _AEgyptum nigra fecundat arena_; as it was called by the Greeks _Melas_, and by the Latins _Melo_, for the same reason. See _Servius_ on the above line of Virgil, Georg. iv. 291. It was called _Siris_ by the Ethiopians, by some supposed to be the same with _Shichor_. Egypt by its extraordinary fertility, caused by the overflowing of the Nile supplied the neighbouring nations with co...

AND BY GREAT WATERS - That is, by the abundant-waters, or the overflowing of the Nile. Tyre was the mart to which the superabundant productions of Egypt were borne (see Ezekiel 27) THE SEED OF SIHOR - There can be no doubt that by ‘Sihor’ here is meant the river Nile in Egypt (see Joshua 13:3; 1 Chronicles 13:5; Jeremiah 2:18). The word שׁחר _shichor_ is derived from שׁחר _shachar_, “to be black” Job 30:30, and is given t

EXPOSITION ISAIAH 23:1 THE BURDEN OF TYRE. We hero reach the last of the "burdens"—the concluding chapter of the series of denunciatory prophecies which commenced with Isaiah 13:1. It is an elegy "in three stanzas, or strophes" (Cheyne)—the first extending from Isaiah 13:1 to Isaiah 13:5; the second, thence to Isaiah 13:9; and the third from Isaiah 13:10 to...

AND BY GREAT WATERS THE SEED OF SIHOR,.... Sihor is the river Nile in Egypt; it had its name from the black colour of its waters, as in Jeremiah 2:18 hence called by the Greeks Melas, and by the Latins Melo: the "seed" of it intends what was sown and grew upon the banks of it, or was nourished by the overflow of this river throughout the land, and includes corn, flax, paper, c. with which Egypt abounded and when this is said to be "by great waters", the meaning either is, that it grew by great waters, the waters of the Nile, and through the influence of them; or that it came by great waters to Tyre; that is, by the waters of the sea, the Mediterranean Sea: THE HARVEST OF THE RIVER [IS] HER REVENUE; this clause is the same with the former, and serves to explain it; the river is the river Nile, the harvest is the seed that was sown and grew by it, and which at the proper s

CHAPTER 23 The Burden of Tyre 1. _Tyre's great disaster (Isaiah 23:1)_ 2. _The complete overthrow (Isaiah 23:6)_ 3. _Tyre's future restoration and degradation (Isaiah 23:15)_ Tyre typifies the commercial expansion and glory of the world. Behind this commercial glory stands Satan, the god of this age. Read Ezekiel 28:11. Nebuchadnezzar carried out judgment upon Tyre Ezekiel 29:17. A revival of Tyre is also predicted. We call attention to a statement in the beautiful Forty-fifth Psalm, a millennial Psalm. When the Kin

ISAIAH 23. ORACLE ON TYRE. The date and authorship are alike very uncertain. If by Isaiah, the occasion may be the siege of Tyre by Shalmaneser about 727- 722 (p. 59), the historicity of which, however, is questioned by some, or Sennacherib's invasion in 701. The text of 13 is very suspicious, and its interpretation very uncertain, or it might have helped to fix the date. Isaiah 23:15 is probably a post-exilic appendix. Isaiah 23:1 is perhaps best referred to Nebuchadnezzar's siege of Tyre, 585- 577 (p. 61). The ships of Tarshish (Isaiah 2:16 *) are on their way back to Tyre, and after they have left Kittim, _i.e._ Cyprus (Numbers

SEED: or, grain. SIHOR. the black river, the Nile (compare Jeremiah 2:18). HARVEST. Egypt was the field, the Phoenician coast its granary. RIVER. Reference to Pentateuch. See note on Isaiah 7:18. "River" is here put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), for the country (Egypt) through which it passes. SHE IS. MART OF NATIONS: or, it became merchandise for the nations. MART. gain resulting from merchandise, as in Isaiah 23:18 (Isaiah 45:14.Proverbs 3:14;...