Ezekiel 27:1
The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, Ver. 1. _The word of the Lord._] See on Ezekiel 18:1 .... [ Continue Reading ]
The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, Ver. 1. _The word of the Lord._] See on Ezekiel 18:1 .... [ Continue Reading ]
Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus; Ver. 2. _Take up a lamentation for Tyrus._] Fitly here compared to a goodly ship, _a_ and her desolation to a dismal shipwreck. Theodoret's note on the text is, that when we correct sinners, or threaten them, it should be done with commiseratio... [ Continue Reading ]
And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, [which art] a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I [am] of perfect beauty. Ver. 3. _O thou that art situated at the entry of the sea._] As now the city of Venice is, “ _Media... [ Continue Reading ]
Thy borders [are] in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty. Ver. 4. _Thy borders are in the midst of the sea._] Wherewith thou art compassed and crowned, as it were, Isa 23:8 being half a mile distant from the continent, till first Nebuchadnezzar, and then Alexander the Grea... [ Continue Reading ]
They have made all thy [ship] boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee. Ver. 5. _They have made all thy ship boards._] Of the most precious materials, which, with thy rich freight, did incite and entice the arch-pirate to surprise and make prize of th... [ Continue Reading ]
Ezekiel 27:6 [Of] the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; the company of the Ashurites have made thy benches [of] ivory, [brought] out of the isles of Chittim. Ver. 6. _Of the cakes of Bashan._] Those very best of the best. See Ezekiel 27:5 . _ Out of the isles of Chittim,_] _i.e., _ Of Gree... [ Continue Reading ]
_Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee._ Ver. 7. _Fine linen._] When coarse canvas might have served the turn as well. _ From Egypt._] Which is held to be the finest, white... [ Continue Reading ]
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 sea and otherwise. _ Thy wise men were thy pilots._] Wise they had need to be that sit at the stern... [ Continue Reading ]
The ancients of Gebal and the wise [men] thereof were in thee thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise. Ver. 9. _The ancients of Gebal._] Great architects, 1Ki 5:18 but persecutors of the Church. Psa 83:7 _ Thy calkers._] Or, Stoppers of chin... [ Continue Reading ]
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 were to thee both for muniment and for ornament.... [ Continue Reading ]
The men of Arvad with thine army [were] upon thy walls round about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: they hanged their shields upon thy walls round about; they have made thy beauty perfect. Ver. 11. _And the Gammadims._] These were not pigmies, as the Vulgate rendereth it; nor Medes, as Symmac... [ Continue Reading ]
Tarshish [was] thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all [kind of] riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs. Ver. 12. _Tarshish,_] _i.e., _ The Carthaginians, say some; the citizens of Tarsus, another colony of the Tyrians, say others. _ They traded in thy fairs._] H... [ Continue Reading ]
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 Muscovites or Cappadocians, who were naturally of a servile disposition: they were anciently called Mesch... [ Continue Reading ]
They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses and horsemen and mules. Ver. 14. _They of the house of Togarmah,_] _i.e., _ The Germans, saith the Targum, who are still excellent horsemen. The Jews call the Turks the house of Togarmah.... [ Continue Reading ]
The men of Dedan [were] thy merchants; many isles [were] the merchandise of thine hand: they brought thee [for] a present horns of ivory and ebony. Ver. 15. _The men of Dedan._] Arabians. Gen 10:7 The Septuagint render them Rhodians. _ Horns of ivory._] The elephant's two great tusks, crooked as h... [ Continue Reading ]
Syria [was] thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate. Ver. 16. _The wares of thy making._] Heb., Works. The Tyrians were ingenious workmen, as Hiram, whom Solomon th... [ Continue Reading ]
Judah, and the land of Israel, they [were] thy merchants: they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm. Ver. 17. _Wheat of Minnith._] Where the best grew, even the kidneys of wheat, as Moses hath it. Deu 32:14 _cf. _ Jdg 11:33 Act 12:20 _ Pannag._] Rosin or... [ Continue Reading ]
Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market. Ver. 19. _Dan also._] Anciently called Laish. Jdg 18:29 Javan, or the Grecians, were great travellers. _a_ Going to and fro.] Discursatory. “ _Impiger extremos currit mercator ad Indos... [ Continue Reading ]
_Dedan [was] thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots._ Ver. 20. _in precious clothes._] Heb., Clothes of freedom, such as are worn by gallants and magnificos. _ For chariots._] Or, Saddles or trappings, _ad vehiculum_ for carriages.... [ Continue Reading ]
Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with thee in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these [were they] thy merchants. Ver. 21. _They occupied with thee in lambs._] Heb., They were the merchants of thy hand, or at thy hand, for cattle could not be carried far. _ In these were they thy me... [ Continue Reading ]
The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they [were] thy merchants: they occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold. Ver. 22. _The merchants of Sheba and Raamah,_] _i.e., _ Ethiopians and Indians. _Erat enim Tyrus emporium propemodum totius mundi._ _a_ With ch... [ Continue Reading ]
Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, [and] Chilmad, [were] thy merchants. Ver. 23. _Haran._] In Mesopotamia, or Charrae, in Parthia, where Crassus was slain. _ And Channeh,_] Or, Chalne, where the tower of Babel was built nine miles high. _a_ And Eden.] Where paradise once... [ Continue Reading ]
These [were] thy merchants in all sorts [of things], in blue clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among thy merchandise. Ver. 24. _In all sorts of things._] _In omnibus perfectissimis; _ in the very best commodities, whether for worth or w... [ Continue Reading ]
The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas. Ver. 25. _Thou wast replenished and made very glorious._] Or, Very heavy: _a_ as a ship, though not top full, may yet have freight enough to sink it; so had this metapho... [ Continue Reading ]
Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas. Ver. 26. _Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters._] _Narrat Tyri naufragium._ Here beginneth the prophecy of Tyre's woeful shipwreck. _a_ The east wind.] Called the "Mariner's misery.... [ Continue Reading ]
Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that [are] in thee, and in all thy company which [is] in the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin. Ver. 27. _Sh... [ Continue Reading ]
The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots. Ver. 28. _The suburbs shall shake._] Or, The waves, or the boats which they throw out of the ship. See on Ezekiel 26:10 . _ Of the cry of thy pilots._] At their _Conclamatum est:_ but why, did they then steer no better? Here we see - a... [ Continue Reading ]
And all that handle the oar, the mariners, [and] all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the land; Ver. 29. _And all that handle the oar._] That have escaped to land with their lives.... [ Continue Reading ]
And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes: Ver. 30. _To be heard against thee._] Or, For thee, or over thee. Ezekiel 27:31 _Revelation 18:11_ _; _ Rev 18:15-16... [ Continue Reading ]
And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart [and] bitter wailing. Ver. 31. _And they shall make._] _Moerebunt induti saccis, inducto calvitio._ If this had been for sin, as it is _offensivum Dei, et aversi... [ Continue Reading ]
And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee, [saying], What [city is] like Tyrus, like the destroyed in the midst of the sea? Ver. 32. _What city._] An elegant mimesis. _ Like the destroyed._] _Quae obmutuit,_ like her that lost her voice and life together.... [ Continue Reading ]
When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many people; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise. Ver. 33. _When thy wars._] Good things are fairest on the back side; the worth of them is best known by the want of them. Our eye s... [ Continue Reading ]
In the time [when] thou shalt be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters thy merchandise and all thy company in the midst of thee shall fall. Ver. 34. _In the depths of the waters,_] _i.e., _ In the overflowing of the wars. Eze 27:26... [ Continue Reading ]
All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, and their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in [their] countenance. Ver. 35. _They shall be troubled in their countenance,_] _i.e., _ Appalled and dispirited.... [ Continue Reading ]
The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be a terror, and never [shalt be] any more. Ver. 36. _The merchants shall hiss at thee._] Either as astonied at thee, or rather as deriding thee, _a_ like as he who seeth another fall into the dirt, first pitieth him and then jeereth him... [ Continue Reading ]