Ezekiel 27:2
A lamentation — We ought to mourn for the miseries of other nations, as well as of our own, out of an affection for mankind in general; yea, tho' they have brought them upon themselves.... [ Continue Reading ]
A lamentation — We ought to mourn for the miseries of other nations, as well as of our own, out of an affection for mankind in general; yea, tho' they have brought them upon themselves.... [ Continue Reading ]
At the entry — Heb. Entrances. She was about four furlongs, or half an English mile from the continent, as it were in the very door of the sea.... [ Continue Reading ]
They — The shipwrights. Shipboards — The planks and benches, or transoms for their ships. Fir — trees — Of the best and finest fir — trees. Lebanon — Whose cedars excelled others.... [ Continue Reading ]
With box — From the isles, and parts about the Ionian, Aegean, and other seas of the Mediterranean, where box — tree is a native, and of great growth and firmness, fit to saw into boards for benches; they were conveyed to Tyre, where their artists inlaid these box boards with ivory, and made them be... [ Continue Reading ]
The isles of Elishah — Probably the sea — coast of Aeolis in the lesser Asia, the inhabitants whereof were excellent in the skill of dying wool. Which covered — He speaks of the coverings they used in their ships or galleys: their tilts, as our boat — men call them.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 Tyrians would not employ their own in such servile works, they hired strangers. Wise men — Thy learne... [ Continue Reading ]
The ancients — Old experienced workmen. Gebal — A town of Phoenicia near the sea. The wise men — Skilful in their trades. Were in thee — Who dwelt in Tyre for gain. All the ships — Ships from all parts of the sea, full of mariners, not only to manage the ships at sea, but to offer their service to t... [ Continue Reading ]
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 of peace. They set forth — These stout, expert, well armed guards, were an honour to thee.... [ Continue Reading ]
With — Mixed with other hired soldiers. The Gammadim — Probably men of Gammade, a town of Phoenicia.... [ Continue Reading ]
Javan — The Grecians, particularly the Ionians. Tubal — The Asiatic Iberians, and the Albanians toward the Caspian sea. Meshech — The Cappadocians. They traded — Brought men to sell for slaves.... [ Continue Reading ]
Of the house — Of the country. Togarmah — Armenia the lesser, Phrygia, Galatia, or Cappadocia. Horsemen — It is likely they might sell grooms, as best able to manage, and keep those horses.... [ Continue Reading ]
Isles — In the Indian seas, and in the Red — sea traded with thee. Horns — Elk's horns, or wild goats. Ebony — Is a very solid, heavy, shining, black wood, fit for many choice works.... [ Continue Reading ]
The multitude — The abundance of the Tyrian manufactures.... [ Continue Reading ]
Minnith — The name of an excellent wheat country. Pannag — Some obscure place, which now is forgotten.... [ Continue Reading ]
Javan — In the isle of Meroe, in Egypt.... [ Continue Reading ]
Dedan — The posterity of Abraham by Keturah, who dwelt in Arabia, and were sheep — masters. Clothes — With which they lined their chariots.... [ Continue Reading ]
Sheba — A country in Arabia Felix. Raamah — Another people of the same Arabia.... [ Continue Reading ]
Haran — In Mesopotamia, where Abraham dwelt. Canneh — This is supposed to be the same with Calneh, Genesis 10:10, afterwards Ctesiphon, a pleasant city on Tigris. Ashur — Assyria. Chilmad — A country between Assyria and Parthia.... [ Continue Reading ]
The ships — The ships from all parts of the sea. Did sing — Had their songs to commend thy state.... [ Continue Reading ]
Thy rowers — Thy governors and counsellors. Great waters — Dangers and difficulties. The east wind — The king of Babylon with his army. Hath broken — As surely will, as if he had already done it. In the midst — Where thou thoughtest thyself impregnable.... [ Continue Reading ]
All thy company — All that are men fit for war, in the multitudes of people that are in thee. Shall fall — These all shall fall together.... [ Continue Reading ]
The suburbs — The suburbs, which are nearest the sea, shall first hear the out — cries of pilots, and mariners.... [ Continue Reading ]
Shall come down — ln the allegory of a miserable shipwreck, the prophet sets forth the fall of Tyre; and in this verse he represents them all shifting out of the sinking ship, in great confusion.... [ Continue Reading ]
Wallow themselves in ashes — As men use to do in their greatest mournings.... [ Continue Reading ]
In the sea — Alas! what was once her safeguard, is now her grave.... [ Continue Reading ]
Went forth — Were landed. Thou filledst — There was enough to supply to the full.... [ Continue Reading ]
By the seas — The Babylonians, that like seas shall swell, roar, and break in upon thee.... [ Continue Reading ]
Troubled — They shall not be able to conceal the discomposure of their mind, but will shew it in their countenance.... [ Continue Reading ]
Shall hiss — Will mock at thy fall.... [ Continue Reading ]