They of Persia, the great Asiatic empire, and of Lud and of Phut, of two powerful African states, were in thine army, thy men of war, as a mercenary army; they hanged the shield and helmet in thee, exercising all the rights of a native army; they set forth thy comeliness, emphasizing it before all the world.
Verse Ezekiel 27:10. _THEY OF PERSIA_] Lud, the Lydians; _Phut_, a people of Africa, see Genesis 10:6. From these places they had auxiliary troops; for as they traded with the then known world, were...
The prophet here leaves the allegory of the ship to describe the armies of the Tyrians composed of mercenary soldiers. Ezekiel 27:10 PERSIA - The name of this people does not occur in the more ancien...
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...
LUD... PHUT. Compare Genesis 10:6; Genesis 10:13, MEN. Hebrew, plural of _'enosh_. App-14....
Her men of war. Her mercenaries were drawn from all quarters of the world. The people called here "they of Persia" appears along with Cush and Phut, African peoples, in the army of Gog, ch. Ezekiel 3...
OF LUD, AND OF PHUT— Or, _Of Ethopia, and of Mauritania,_ or _Africa._ Houbigant renders the latter part of the verse, _They hanged the shield and the helmet upon thy walls, and added to thy comelines...
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...
They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy comeliness. THEY OF PERSIA AND OF LUD AND OF PHUT - warriors...
27:10 Phut (l-5) See Jeremiah 46:9 ....
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...
LUD AND.. PHUT] Ludim appears in Genesis 10:6 as the eldest son of Mizraim (Egypt), and Phut in Genesis 10:6 as a son of Ham and brother of Mizraim. Both nations are mentioned as allies of Egypt in Ge...
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
OF PERSIA AND OF LUD AND OF PHUT. — Tyre, like most commercial nations, depended chiefly on mercenaries for the rank and file of its army. Persia, more anciently called Elam, was just now rising into...
פָּרַ֨ס וְ ל֤וּד וּ פוּט֙ הָי֣וּ בְ
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,...
_Lybians. Hebrew, "Phut." They had been expelled by the Cyreneans. Tyre had in her pay the most warlike nations of Persia, &c. Cyrus soon after shook off the yoke of the Medes, and conquered the Lydia...
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...
THEY OF PERSIA, AND OF LUD, AND OF PHUT, WERE IN THINE ARMY, THY MEN OF WAR,.... As the Tryrians were a trading people, they hired foreign troops into their service, to fill their garrisons, defend th...
They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy comeliness. Ver. 10. _They set forth thy comeliness._] They wer...
_The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners_ So great was the opulence and pride of the Tyrians, that they hired foreigners to do the more laborious and menial employments, and would do noth...
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...
THEY OF PERSIA; Persians, excellent archers. OF LUD; Lydians; not those Croesus was king over, but those that dwelt in Egypt about the lake Marcotis, or higher towards Ethiopia, if they were not of th...
Ezekiel 27:10 Persia H6539 Lydia H3865 Libya H6316 army H2428 men H582 war H4421 hung H8518 (H8
TYRE'S MERCENARIES. Tyre was wealthy and could pay for her own defence by hiring mercenaries from distant places. “Persia and Lud and Put were in your army, your men of war, They hung the shield an...
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...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 27:10 PERSIA (modern Iran), LUD (probably in Asia Minor), and PUT (Libya) mark a vast geographical triangle from which foreign mercenaries were recruited.
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 1:11; 1 Chronicles 1:17; 1 Chronicles 1:8; Daniel 5:28;...
Lud — Lydians, not those Cresus was king over, but those that dwelt in Egypt about the lake Maraeolis. Phut — Lybians, a people of Africa; these were their hired soldiers. Hanged the shield — In time...