George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Ezekiel 27:13
Slaves. Those from Greece were much esteemed. (Calmet) --- Alas! thirty thousand Tyrians were themselves thus sold by Alexander [the Great]! (Haydock)
Slaves. Those from Greece were much esteemed. (Calmet) --- Alas! thirty thousand Tyrians were themselves thus sold by Alexander [the Great]! (Haydock)
Verse Ezekiel 27:13. _JAVAN, TUBAL, AND MESHECH_] The Ionians, the Tybarenians, and the Cappadocians, or Muscovites. _THEY TRADED THE PERSONS OF MEN_] That is, they trafficked in _slaves_. The bodies...
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...
JAVAN. Ionia. Compare Genesis 10:4. These are named together in Genesis 10:2. PERSONS. souls. Hebrew. _nephesh_. App-13. Referring to the slave trade. See Revelation 18:13. MEN. mankind. Hebrew 'ad
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...
These three countries, Javan, Tubal and Meshech are usually named together, Genesis 10:2; Ezekiel 32:26; Ezekiel 38:2; Ezekiel 39:1;...
JAVAN, TUBAL, AND MESECH— _Greece, the Tibareni, and Moschi,_ [situated near the Euxine sea] _the associates of thy merchandize, bring to thy marts slaves and brazen vessels._ Houbigant....
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...
Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market. JAVAN - the Ionians or Greeks; because the Ionians of Asia Minor were the fir...
27:13 thee (a-12) Lit. 'furnished thy barter.'...
JAVAN, TUBAL, AND MESHECH] these nations are named together in Genesis 10:2. Javan is Ionia in Asia Minor. Tubal and Meshech are usually identified with the Tibareni and Moschi, two tribes in the N. o...
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...
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
JAVAN, TUBAL, AND MESHECH. — Javan is strictly Ionia, more generally Greece. Tubal and Meshech are the classic _Tibareni_ and _Moschi,_ between the Black and Caspian Seas. They were famous for dealing...
יָוָ֤ן תֻּבַל֙ וָ מֶ֔שֶׁךְ הֵ֖מָּה רֹֽכְלָ֑יִךְ...
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,...
(f) Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they [were] thy merchants: they traded (g) in the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market. (f) Of Greece, Italy and Cappadocia. (g) By selling slaves....
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...
Ver. 13 JAVAN, TUBAL, AND MESHECH, THEY [WERE] THY MERCHANTS,.... Javan designs Greece, as the Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions render it; especially that part of it called Ionia, from Javan the...
Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they [were] thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market. Ver. 13. _Javan, Tubal, and Meshech,_] _i.e., _ Grecians, Spaniards, and Musco...
_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...
DESCRIPTION OF THE COMMERCE OF TYRE...
Javan, the Ionians of Asia Minor, TUBAL, AND MESHECH, the latter two being countries or states between the Black and the Caspian Sea, THEY WERE THY MERCHANTS; THEY TRADED THE PERSONS OF MEN, in the tr...
MARKET: Or, merchandise...
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...
JAVAN; the Grecians, particularly the Ionians. _Tubal_; the Asiatic Iberians, &c.; the Albanians toward the Caspian Sea. MESHECH; the Cappadocians, with the Moschi, who dwelt about Cholcis, the countr...
Ezekiel 27:13 Javan H3120 Tubal H8422 Meshech H4902 traders H7402 (H8802) bartered H5414 (H8804) human H120 lives
“Javan, Tubal and Meshech, they traded with you, They exchanged the persons of men and vessels of bronze for your merchandise.” Javan (compare Isaiah 66:19) originally indicated the Ionians (Assyrian...
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...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 27:13 The names JAVAN, TUBAL, AND MESHECH first occur as sons of Japheth in Genesis 10:2 (repeated in...
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 1:5; 1 Chronicles 1:7; Daniel 10:20; Daniel 11:2; Da
Javan — The Grecians, particularly the Ionians. Tubal — The Asiatic Iberians, and the Albanians toward the Caspian sea. Meshech — The Cappadocians. They traded — Brought men to sell for slaves....