Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ezekiel 27:5
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.
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.
Verse Ezekiel 27:5. _FIR TREES OF SENIR_] _Senir_ is a mountain which the Sidonians called Sirion, and the Hebrews _Hermon_, Deuteronomy 3:9. It was beyond Jordan, and extended from Libanus to the mou...
FIR-TREES (OR, CYPRESS) OF SENIR - The name by which the Amorites knew Mount Hermon....
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...
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...
SHIP BOARDS. planks. FIR. cypress. SENIR. Mount Hermon (Deuteronomy 3:9)....
THY SHIP-BOARDS—OF SENIR— _Senir_ is the ancient name for _Hermon._ See Deuteronomy 3:9. _MASTS_— Though cedars have a thick and not a lofty trunk, masts consisting of different parts may be made of...
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...
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...
They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee. THEY HAVE MADE ALL THY SHIP BOARDS OF FIR TREES OF SENIR - or 'Shenir,' the Amo...
SENIR] Mt. Hermon (Deuteronomy 3:9)....
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...
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
SHIP BOARDS. — Planking for the sides of the ship. The word in the original is in the dual, with reference to its two sides. Senir was the Amorite name of Hermon, or Antilebanon, called by the Sido-ni...
בְּרֹושִׁ֤ים מִ שְּׂנִיר֙ בָּ֣נוּ לָ֔ךְ אֵ֖ת...
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...
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,...
They have made all thy [ship] planks of fir trees of (b) Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee. (b) This mountain was called Hermon but the Amorites called it Shenir, (Deu...
_Thee. Hebrew, "all thy ship -boards." (Septuagint) (Protestants) (Haydock) --- St. Jerome has divided (Calmet) leuthim, "decks of the sea," as yam denotes the sea. (Haydock)_...
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...
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...
THEY HAVE MADE ALL THY SHIP BOARDS OF FIR TREES OF SENIR,.... The same with Sion and Hermon, which the Sidonians called Sirion, and the Amorites Shenir, Deuteronomy 3:9 here, it seems, grew the best o...
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,...
_They have made thy ship-boards_ The decks of thy ships; _of fir-trees of Senir_ By these are meant, the fir-trees which grew upon mount _Hermon_, which was anciently called _Shenir_, or _Senir. They...
DESCRIPTION OF THE GLORY AND MIGHT OF TYRE...
They have made all thy ship-boards, the timber used in its construction, OF FIR-TREES OF SENIR, the cypress from the Anti-Lebanon being known for its ability to withstand the influence of the elements...
MADE: _ Heb._ built...
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...
THEY; thy shipwrights. SHIP-BOARDS; the planks, and benches, or transoms, for their ships. OF FIR TREES; of the best and finest fir trees OF SENIR, i.e. Hermen, DEUTERONOMY 3:9. CEDARS, for height, st...
Ezekiel 27:5 made H1129 (H8804) planks H3871 trees H1265 Senir H8149 took H3947 (H8804) cedar H730 Lebanon...
‘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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
1 Kings 5:1; 1 Kings 5:6; Deuteronomy 3:9; Isaiah 14:8; Psalms 104:16;...