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Isaiah 23:15-18
The appendix. Tyre shall be forgotten for seventy years; afterwards she shall resume her commercial activity, but its profits shall be dedicated to Jehovah's people.
The appendix. Tyre shall be forgotten for seventy years; afterwards she shall resume her commercial activity, but its profits shall be dedicated to Jehovah's people.
Verse Isaiah 23:15. _ACCORDING TO THE DAYS OF ONE KING_] what is, of one _kingdom_; see Daniel 7:17; Daniel 8:20. Nebuchadnezzar began his conquests in the first year of his reign; from thence to the...
TYRE SHALL BE FORGOTTEN - Shall cease to be a place of importance in commerce; shall be unheard of in those distant places to which ships formerly sailed. SEVENTY YEARS, ACCORDING TO THE DAYS OF ONE K...
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...
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...
SEVENTY YEARS. See Jeremiah 25:9; Jeremiah 27:2. From the first year of Nebuchadnezzar (496 B.C.) to the conquest of Babylon by Cyrus (426 B.C.) ONE. Hebrew. _ehad_,. compound unity, hence "one" of. d...
AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS IN THAT DAY— The second part of this discourse contains the alleviation of the calamity decreed upon Tyre. In these verses the prophet informs us, _first,_ that God would cir...
c. SUBMISSION TEXT: Isaiah 23:15-18 15 And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years it shall b...
And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot. TYRE SHALL BE FORG...
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...
SEVENTY] perhaps a symbolic number for a long period. ACCORDING TO, etc.] i.e. without revolution or change....
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...
After 70 years, nobody of the earlier times would still be alive. But in every century, women who live in the ports have offered sex for money to sailors. It will be easy to bring back this bad tradit...
וְ הָיָה֙ בַּ † יֹּ֣ום הַ ה֔וּא...
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...
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...
And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of (t) seventy years shall Tyre (u) sing as an harlot. (t) Tyrus wi...
King Nabuchodonosor, whose two sons reigned but a short time. The captivity of the people of God began also the year of the world 3398, and ended the year of the world 3468, the first of Cyrus. --- Ha...
It is worthy remark, that Tyre's captivity was appointed by the Lord, to be of the same length as Israel's, and under the same government. Was this designed, (I only ask the question, not determine) t...
15._And it shall come to pass in that day. _After having spoken of the taking of Tyre, he next declares how long her calamity shall endure. It happens that cities which have been ruined are suddenly r...
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...
AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS IN THAT DAY,.... When Tyre is destroyed, from that time forward: THAT TYRE SHALL BE FORGOTTEN SEVENTY YEARS; shall so long lie in its ruin, and not be rebuilt; it shall be w...
And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot. Ver. 15. _Tyre shall...
_And it shall come to pass_, &c. Here begins the second part of this discourse, which contains an alleviation of the judgment decreed against Tyre. The prophet foretels, 1st, “That God would circumscr...
THE RESTORATION OF TYREV. 15. AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS IN THAT DAY, at the time when this prophecy would be fulfilled, THAT TYRE SHALL BE FORGOTTEN SEVENTY YEARS, the length of the Chaldean supremacy...
SHALL TYRE SING AS AN HARLOT: _ Heb._ it shall be unto Tyre as the song of an harlot...
15-18 The desolations of Tyre were not to be for ever. The Lord will visit Tyre in mercy. But when set at liberty, she will use her old arts of temptation. The love of worldly wealth is spiritual ido...
FORGOTTEN; neglected and forsaken by those who used to resort thither. SEVENTY YEARS; during the whole time of the Jewish captivity in Babylon. For Tyrus was taken by Nebuchadnezzar, JEREMIAH 27:3,8 E...
Isaiah 23:15 day H3117 Tyre H6865 forgotten H7911 (H8737) seventy H7657 years H8141 days H3117 one H259 king...
AFTER SEVENTY YEARS TYRE WILL BE RESTORED (ISAIAH 23:15). Analysis. a And it will come about in that day that Tyre will be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king (Isaiah 23:15 a)...
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...
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....
_Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years_ TYRE FORGOTTEN SEVENTY YEARS Tyre shall be forgotten “seventy years, like the days of one king”;--a Hebrew idiom, obscure to us, though probably plain enough t...
_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...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 23:1 The fifth oracle concerns the judgment and redemption of Tyre. ⇐ ⇔...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 23:15 The PROSTITUTE Tyre will soon be back in business, but will ultimately be redeemed (like other nations, e.g., Isaiah 19:23)....
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...
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...
Daniel 7:14; Daniel 8:21; Ezekiel 27:25; Ezekiel 29:11; Hosea 2:15;...
Forgotten — Neglected and forsaken. Seventy years — During the time of the Jewish captivity in Babylon. Tyre was taken by Nebuchadnezzar, Jeremiah 27:3, Jeremiah 27:8; Ezekiel 26:7, a little after the...