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 learned men: for navigation was the great study of the Tyrians.
Verse Ezekiel 27:8. _ZIDON_ AND _ARVAD_] Or _Arad_. Two powerful cities on the Phoenician coast, in the neighbourhood of Tyre, from which Tyre had her sailors; and the best instructed of her own inhab...
ARVAD - See Genesis 10:18. An island off the coast of Sidon, now called Ruad....
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...
ARVAD. Now the island _Er Ruad._ Mentioned in. Macc 15:23. MARINERS. rowers. THAT WERE. they [were]....
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...
The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise men, O Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots. THE INHABITANTS OF ZIDON AND ARVAD WERE THY MARINERS - Arvad, a small island and ci...
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...
ARVAD] a Canaanite city (Genesis 10:18; 1 Chronicles 1:16) built on an island (Ruwâd) 2 m. off the Syrian coast and nearly 100 m. N. of Tyre....
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
ARVAD. — The description now turns to the sailors. The Arvadite is mentioned among the family of Canaan in Genesis 10:18, and corresponds to the Greek Aradus. There were two islands of this name: one...
יֹשְׁבֵ֤י צִידֹון֙ וְ אַרְוַ֔ד הָי֥וּ שָׁטִ֖ים...
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,...
_Aradians. Sidon and Arad were then subject to Tyre, and supplied rowers. --- Pilots. They studied no other science._...
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...
THE INHABITANTS OF ZIDON AND ARVAD WERE THY MARINERS,.... Zidon was a city in Phoenicia, near to Tyre, and older than that, by whose inhabitants it was built; see the notes on Isaiah 23:2 and Arvad wa...
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...
_The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners_ So great was the opulence and pride of the Tyrians, that they hired foreigners to do the more laborious and menial employments, and would do noth...
The inhabitants of Zidon, the oldest city and the other large commercial center of Phoenicia, AND ARVAD, a rocky island north of Tripolis, WERE THY MARINERS, the sailors manning the Tyrian vessels; TH...
DESCRIPTION OF THE GLORY AND MIGHT OF TYRE...
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...
ZIDON; an ancient town and haven of Phoenicia, not far from Tyre. ARVAD; better known by its other name Aradus, an island belonging to Phoenicia, some say twenty, others say seven, furlongs from the c...
Ezekiel 27:8 Inhabitants H3427 (H8802) Sidon H6721 Arvad H719 oarsmen H7751 (H8801) wise H2450 Tyre H6865 pilots...
‘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...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 27:8 The MARINERS came from various Phoenician coastal cities. ⇐...
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 5:6; 1 Kings 9:27; 2 Chronicles 2:13; 2 Chronicles 2:14;...