REVIEW QUESTIONS 1. List five specific predictions made against Tyre. How was each fulfilled? 2. Who does Ezekiel name specifically as an agent of Tyre's destruction? 3. What damage did Alexander the Great inflict upon Tyre? 4. Has the prediction about Tyre never being rebuilt been fulfilled... [ Continue Reading ]
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 dwells beside the entrances of the sea, merchant of the peoples unto many coastlands, Thus says the Lord... [ Continue Reading ]
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 by a skilled crew (Ezekiel 27:3-11). In the prose section the ship is said to stop at various ports... [ Continue Reading ]
B. The Ship in her Ports of Call 27:12-25a TRANSLATION (12) Tarshish was your client because of the abundance of all kinds of wealth; silver, iron, tin and lead they traded for your wares. (13) Javan, Tubal and Meshech were your trading partners; persons of men and vessels of bronze they traded for... [ Continue Reading ]
C. The Ship Sinking Beneath the Waves 27:25b-36 TRANSLATION (25b) So you became full and very heavy[418] in the heart of the seas. (26) Into great waters your rowers have brought you; the east wind has broken you in the heart of the seas. (27) Your wealth, your wares, your merchandise, your sailors... [ Continue Reading ]