Darby's translation notes (1890)
Ezekiel 27:16
27:16 corals, (b-26) Or 'pearls,' see Job 28:18 .
27:16 corals, (b-26) Or 'pearls,' see Job 28:18 .
Verse Ezekiel 27:16. _SYRIA_] These were always a mercantile people. For the precious stones mentioned here Exodus 28:17....
The thread broken at Ezekiel 27:8 is taken up, and the various nations are enumerated which traded with Tyre. Ezekiel 27:12 TARSHISH - Tartessus in Spain (marginal references). Spain was rich in the...
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...
OCCUPIED. traded. Compare "occupy" in Luke 19:13....
The market of Tyre Several things are to be observed in this passage: 1. The representation is not that Tyre is traded with by the nations, though this is the fact lying under the figures employed. T...
For Syria (Aram) the Syr. reads Edom, and so in effect LXX. (interchange of _d_and _r_as Ezekiel 27:15). If Edom be read the line pursued would be from S. to N., Edom, Ezekiel 27:16, Judah, Ezekiel 27...
CORAL AND AGATE— _Silk, and rubies,_ or _crystal._...
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...
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...
Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate. SYRIA WAS T...
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
EMERALDS. — The precious stone intended here, and in Exodus 28:18, is now generally understood to be the carbuncle. The word for “fine linen” is not that of Ezekiel 27:7, but a Phœnician word, occurri...
אֲרָ֥ם סֹחַרְתֵּ֖ךְ מֵ רֹ֣ב מַעֲשָׂ֑יִךְ בְּ֠...
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,...
Syrian: always much addicted to commerce. (St. Jerome) --- Septuagint read Adam for Aram, as if the traffic in men was meant: (Calmet) "ivory, and to those who brought, thou gavest thy rewards. (16) M...
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...
SYRIA WAS THY MERCHANT BY REASON OF THE MULTITUDE OF THE WARES OF THY MAKING,.... Which they took off of their hands, and for them brought the following things: THEY OCCUPIED IN THY FAIRS WITH EMERAL...
Syria [was] thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate. Ver. 16. _T...
_Syria was thy merchant_, &c. From what is said here, we may conclude that the inhabitants of Tyre were exceedingly industrious, skilful in arts, and politic; for here almost all nations are described...
Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making, the manufacturing industry of Tyre being a very important item in its wealth; THEY OCCUPIED IN THY FAIRS, paying for the w...
DESCRIPTION OF THE COMMERCE OF TYRE...
WARES: _ Heb._ works AGATE: Or, Chrysoprase...
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...
OLBHeb; THE MULTITUDE OF THE WARES OF THY MAKING; the abundance of the Tyrian manufacture for all uses, which the Syrians could have no where else. WITH EMERALDS; rather, for emeralds, a rich and love...
Ezekiel 27:16 Syria H758 merchant H5503 (H8802) abundance H7230 made H4639 gave H5414 (H8804) wares H5801 emeralds
“Syria (Aram) was your merchant by reason of your plentiful handyworks, They traded for your wares with emeralds, purple and embroidered work, and fine linen and coral and rubies. Judah and the land...
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...
_Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches._ THE FAIRS OF TYRE Let us look in upon a world’s fair at Tyre. Ezekiel leads us through one department, and it is a horse...
_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...
CORAL Coral. Ezekiel 27:16. Here is December, the last month of the year, and it brings us to the last stone in our imaginary talisman. What do you think I have chosen as the last jewel? Why, the ve...
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 27:12 The impressive range of merchant connections begins and ends with TARSHISH, probably in southern Spain. Tyre’s trade stretched along the whole extent of the Mediterranean...
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...
2 Samuel 10:6; 2 Samuel 15:8; 2 Samuel 8:5; Genesis 10:22; Genesis 28:5
The multitude — The abundance of the Tyrian manufactures....