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Verse Isaiah 23:2. _BE STILL _- "Be silent"] Silence is a mark of
grief and consternation. See Isaiah 47:5. Jeremiah has finely
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"The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the...
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BE STILL - This is the description of a city which is destroyed, where
the din of commerce, and the sound of revelry is no longer heard. It
is an address of the prophet to Tyre, indicating that it wou...
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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...
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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...
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ISLE. Here, Tyre itself.
THOU WHOM. which.
PASS OVER. cross, in trading. In verses: Isaiah 23:2; Isaiah 23:3;
Isaiah 23:6; Isaiah 23:
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The prophet next apostrophises the _inhabitants of the_ COAST (render
so, as in ch. Isaiah 20:6), i.e. Phœnicia, calling them to _be
still_, or rather DUMB, with bewilderment.
_the merchants_(in Heb....
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BE STILL, &C.— The second apostrophe is addressed to the islands of
the Mediterranean sea, which are here collectively called _the isle,_
and which are summoned to silence and wonder. That this is the...
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CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
3.
TYRE
a. SPLENDOR
TEXT: Isaiah 23:1-7
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The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste,
so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Ki...
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Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of
Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.
BE STILL - struck dumb with awe. Addressed to those already in the
country, eye-wi...
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23:2 isle! (e-7) Or 'of the [sea] coast,' as ver. 6....
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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...
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ISLE] 'coastland,' i.e. of Phœnicia....
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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...
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Tyre and Sidon were two busy ports. They were north of Israel in what
is today part of Lebanon. When David and Solomon ruled Israel, they
both enjoyed good relations with the people in Tyre (see 1 Kin...
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דֹּ֖מּוּ יֹ֣שְׁבֵי אִ֑י סֹחֵ֥ר
צִידֹ֛ון עֹבֵ֥ר...
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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...
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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...
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Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of
Zidon, that pass over the sea, have (f) replenished.
(f) Have hunted and enriched you....
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_Island. Tyre was originally surrounded with water. A communication
with the land was made afterwards, Josue xix. 29. (Calmet) (Ezechiel
xxvii.) (Worthington)_...
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It is remarkable that this prophecy was delivered at a time when Tyre
was in the height of prosperity, and resting to the full in the
enjoyment of flourishing trade and merchandize. For long after thi...
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2._Be silent, ye inhabitants of the islands. _This is intended to
place in a more striking light the ruin of Tyre. There is a change of
number in the word _island; _for although he uses the singular n...
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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...
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BE STILL, YE INHABITANTS OF THE ISLE,.... Either the isles of Chittim,
or other islands that traded with Tyre, the singular being put for the
plural, called upon to grieve and mourn, because the city...
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Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of
Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.
Ver. 2. _Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle._] _A nundinatorio
strepitu quiescite,...
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_Be still, ye inhabitants of the isles_ Hebrew, דמו, _be silent;_
as persons confounded, and not knowing what to say, or as mourners use
to be. Silence is a mark of grief and consternation: see Isaiah...
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STILL:
_ Heb._ silent...
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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...
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BE STILL, Heb. _Be silent_, as one confounded, and not knowing what to
say, or as mourners use to be, JOB 2 8,13 ISA 47:5; boast no more of
thy wealth and power, as thou usedst to do. OF THE ISLE, Heb...
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Isaiah 23:2 still H1826 (H8798) inhabitants H3427 (H8802) coastland
H339 merchants H5503 (H8802) Sidon H6721 cross...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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_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...
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 23:1 The fifth oracle concerns the judgment
and redemption of Tyre.
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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...
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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...
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Ezekiel 27:3; Ezekiel 27:4; Ezekiel 27:8; Ezekiel 28:2; Habakkuk 2:20
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Be still — Heb. be silent, boast no more of thy wealth and power.
The isle — Of Tyre, which was an island, 'till Alexander joined it
to the continent. The title of islands is often given by the Hebrew...