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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Ezekiel 27:8

The inhabitants of Zidon, the oldest city and the other large commercial center of Phoenicia, and Arvad, a rocky island north of Tripolis, were thy mariners, the sailors manning the Tyrian vessels; thy wise men, O Tyrus, that were in thee, skilled in the lore of the sea, were thy pilots, occupying the responsible positions.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Ezekiel 27:8. _ZIDON_ AND _ARVAD_] Or _Arad_. Two powerful cities on the Phoenician coast, in the neighbourhood of Tyre, from which Tyre had her sailors; and the best instructed of her own inhab...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    ARVAD - See Genesis 10:18. An island off the coast of Sidon, now called Ruad....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    ARVAD. Now the island _Er Ruad._ Mentioned in. Macc 15:23. MARINERS. rowers. THAT WERE. they [were]....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise men, O Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots. THE INHABITANTS OF ZIDON AND ARVAD WERE THY MARINERS - Arvad, a small island and ci...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    ARVAD] a Canaanite city (Genesis 10:18; 1 Chronicles 1:16) built on an island (Ruwâd) 2 m. off the Syrian coast and nearly 100 m. N. of Tyre....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    ARVAD. — The description now turns to the sailors. The Arvadite is mentioned among the family of Canaan in Genesis 10:18, and corresponds to the Greek Aradus. There were two islands of this name: one...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    יֹשְׁבֵ֤י צִידֹון֙ וְ אַרְוַ֔ד הָי֥וּ שָׁטִ֖ים...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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,...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Aradians. Sidon and Arad were then subject to Tyre, and supplied rowers. --- Pilots. They studied no other science._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THE INHABITANTS OF ZIDON AND ARVAD WERE THY MARINERS,.... Zidon was a city in Phoenicia, near to Tyre, and older than that, by whose inhabitants it was built; see the notes on Isaiah 23:2 and Arvad wa...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise [men], O Tyrus, [that] were in thee, were thy pilots. Ver. 8. _The inhabitants of Zidon._] Famous all the world over for their skill at...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    ZIDON; an ancient town and haven of Phoenicia, not far from Tyre. ARVAD; better known by its other name Aradus, an island belonging to Phoenicia, some say twenty, others say seven, furlongs from the c...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ezekiel 27:8 Inhabitants H3427 (H8802) Sidon H6721 Arvad H719 oarsmen H7751 (H8801) wise H2450 Tyre H6865 pilots...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 27:8 The MARINERS came from various Phoenician coastal cities. ⇐...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 5:6; 1 Kings 9:27; 2 Chronicles 2:13; 2 Chronicles 2:14;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Zidon — An ancient town and haven of Phoenicia, not far from Tyre. Arvad — Or Aradus, an island belonging to Phoenicia, twenty furlongs from the continent. Mariners — Rowers in thy galleys; the rich T...

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