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Isaiah 23:11

He, Jehovah, stretched out His hand over the sea, as the One who has absolute power over all the forces of nature; He shook the kingdoms, putting them in commotion to carry out His plans. The Lord hath given a commandment against the merchant city, literally, "against Canaan," which here designates Phoenicia only, to destroy the strongholds thereof, chiefly the bulwarks of Tyre.

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See also Isaiah 23:11 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    HE STRETCHED OUT HIS HAND - That is, Yahweh (see Isaiah 23:9). To stretch out the hand is indicative of punishment (see the notes at Isaiah 5:25; Isaiah 9:12), and means that God has resolved to infli...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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 commer...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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, howeve...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. THE MERCHANT CITY. Tyre, or Phoenician coast. Hosea 12:7. THEREOF: or, which are upon it....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The third strophe, as usually explained, deals mainly with the emancipation of the Phœnician colonies from the somewhat stringent control of Tyre. But the passage presents many difficulties; and from...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _He stretched out his hand, &c._ R.V. HE HATH STRETCHED OUT … HATH SHAKEN. Cf. ch. Isaiah 5:25; Isaiah 14:26-27. The _kingdoms_are specially Phœnicia and its dependencies. _the merchant_city] Read CAN...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    HE STRETCHED OUT HIS HAND— We have here the latter member of the period concerning the grand projector and executor of the destruction of Tyre; where, in the 11th verse, the prophet tells us that the...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    b. SHAKEN TEXT: Isaiah 23:8-14 8 Who hath purposed this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honorable of the earth? 9 Jehovah of hosts hat...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the LORD hath given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy the strong holds thereof. HE - Yahweh. HE SHOOK THE KINGDOM...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE DOOM OF TYRE Tyre was a great mercantile centre of the ancient world, and at the time of the Hebrew monarchy chief state of Phœnicia, the parent of many colonies, and mistress of the Mediterranea...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    AGAINST _.. city_] RV 'concerning Canaan,' i.e. Phœnicia....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD CONTROLS THE FUTURE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 21 TO 30 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 23 All the verses in this chapter refer to both Tyre and Sidon. This is so even if on...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    People in Tyre depended on the sea for their trade. God’s ‘power over the sea’ means that God also controls the use of the sea by Tyre’s merchants....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    יָדֹו֙ נָטָ֣ה עַל ־הַ יָּ֔ם הִרְגִּ֖יז מַמְלָ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XVIII TYRE; OR, THE MERCENARY SPIRIT 702 B.C. Isaiah 23:1 THE task, which was laid upon the religion of Israel while Isaiah was its prophet, was the task, as we have often told ourselves, o...

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

    The burden of Tyre opens with a graphic description of her desolation. Her harbors are closed. Her borders are desolate. The sea, which had been her highway, is abandoned, and Egypt, her ally, is affr...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Here we are brought acquainted with the means the Lord will make use of, for the overthrow of Tyre. The Chaldeans shall be the Lord's instruments; and what adds to the aggravation of Tyre's sorrow, to...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    11._He stretched out his hand over the sea. _It is thought that the prediction which the Prophet uttered, about the destruction of Tyre, is here confirmed by examples; namely, that the Lord has given...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19 THROUGH 23. In Chapter s 19 and 20 Egypt shall be smitten in that day; but Jehovah will heal it. Egypt, Assyria, and Israel shall together be blessed of Je...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    HE STRETCHED OUT HIS HAND OVER THE SEA,.... That is, the Lord of hosts, who had purposed to destroy Tyre, stretched out his hand of power over it, called the sea, as in Isaiah 23:4 because situated in...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the LORD hath given a commandment against the merchant [city], to destroy the strong holds thereof._ Ver. 11. _He stretched out his han...

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

    _He_ Namely, the Lord, mentioned in the latter part of the verse; _stretched out his hand over the sea_ That is, Tyre, called the sea, (Isaiah 23:4,) to overthrow it. _He shook_ Hebrew, הרגיז, _he mad...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    AGAINST THE MERCHANT CITY: Or, concerning a merchant man STRONG HOLDS: Or, strengths...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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 pri...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    HE, the Lord, expressed ISAIAH 23:9, stretched out his hand to strike it, the antecedent being put for the consequent, OVER THE SEA; or, _against the sea_, i.e. against Tyrus, the daughter of the sea,...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 23:11 out H5186 (H8804) hand H3027 sea H3220 shook H7264 (H8689) kingdoms H4467 LORD H3068 commandment...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    LAMENT OVER TYRE (ISAIAH 23:1). The final burden is the burden of Tyre and Sidon. These were two wealthy and powerful seaports on the Mediterranean coast from which ships went out to all parts of the...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Burden of Tyre. Desolations preceding the final deliverance of Israel. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The proud boasts of worldly nations, who bid defiance to their neighbors, will surely be...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 23:1. _The burden of Tyre._ This was one of the most ancient cities of Phœnicia, situate on a rock, seven hundred paces from the shore, though now joined to the land by the working of the sea....

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _The burden of Tyre_ THE PROPHECY AGAINST TYRE: LESSONS The Tarshish of this chapter is Spain. Chittim is the island of Cyprus. The word “merchant” is the same word that is rendered in other places...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 23:1 The fifth oracle concerns the judgment and redemption of Tyre. ⇐ ⇔...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 23:11 HE HAS STRETCHED OUT HIS HAND OVER THE SEA in sovereign authority (see Exodus 14:16). Tyre and Sidon were part of what once was...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now in chapter 23 he takes up his burden against Tyre. Tyre was, of course, a seaport town. It was the area... The people of Tyre were known as Phoenicians. And so you who are versed in your ancient h...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Exodus 15:8; Ezekiel 26:10; Ezekiel 26:15; Ezekiel 27:34; Eze

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    He — The Lord. Shook — Heb. he made the kingdoms to tremble; the neighbouring and confederate kingdoms, who might justly quake at her fall, for the dreadfulness and unexpectedness of the thing; and be...

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