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Verse Isaiah 23:13. _BEHOLD THE LAND OF THE CHALDEANS_] This verse is
extremely obscure; the obscurity arises from the ambiguity of the
agents, which belong to the verbs, and of the objects expressed...
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BEHOLD THE LAND OF THE CHALDEANS - This is a very important verse, as
it expresses the source from where these calamities were coming upon
Tyre; and as it states some historical facts of great interes...
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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...
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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...
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THIS PEOPLE WAS NOT. a people that were no people (i.e. Assyria). Tyre
boasted antiquity (Isaiah 23:7), Assyria was their object-lesson and
warning.
AND: or, but.
HE. God....
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The third strophe, as usually explained, deals mainly with the
emancipation of the Phœnician colonies from the somewhat stringent
control of Tyre. But the passage presents many difficulties; and from...
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Every attempt to extract a meaning from the verse as it stands is
beset by insuperable difficulties. Perhaps the best suggestion is that
the fate of Chaldæa is mentioned as a warning example to Tyre:...
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BEHOLD THE LAND OF THE CHALDEANS, &C — The prophet in these words
sets forth the instrumental cause of the destruction of Tyre, which
should subserve the God of Israel in the execution of this singula...
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b. SHAKEN
TEXT: Isaiah 23:8-14
8
Who hath purposed this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose
merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honorable of the
earth?
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Jehovah of hosts hat...
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Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the
Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up
the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he b...
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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...
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THIS PEOPLE, etc.] According to AV rendering, this v. describes the
consolidation of the Chaldeans into a nation by the Assyrians. There
is, however, no other record of this, and it is better to read,...
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הֵ֣ן ׀ אֶ֣רֶץ כַּשְׂדִּ֗ים זֶ֤ה הָ
עָם֙ לֹ֣א
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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...
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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...
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Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, [till] the (q)
Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up
its towers, they raised up its palaces; [and] he (r) brough...
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_It. Hebrew adds, "for fishermen." It was formerly covered with water.
(Eusebius, præp. ix.) --- Ruin. The fall of Babylon has been
denounced, chap. xiii._...
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Here we are brought acquainted with the means the Lord will make use
of, for the overthrow of Tyre. The Chaldeans shall be the Lord's
instruments; and what adds to the aggravation of Tyre's sorrow, to...
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13._Behold, the land of the Chaldeans. _He now confirms by an example
what he predicted about the taking of Tyre; for those things could
scarcely obtain credit, especially among the inhabitants of Tyr...
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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...
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BEHOLD THE LAND OF THE CHALDEANS,.... Not Tyre, as some think, so
called, because founded by the Chaldeans, who finding it a proper
place for "ships", so they render the word "tziim", afterward used,...
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Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, [till] the
Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up
the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; [and] h...
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_Behold the land of the Chaldeans_, &c. This verse, in which there is
much obscurity, will admit of different interpretations. One adopted
by Dr. Lightfoot and some others, is to this purpose. Behold,...
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THE FALL OF TYREV. 1. THE BURDEN OF TYRE, the proud Phoenician
metropolis, which withstood the attacks of several Assyrian armies and
endured a siege of thirteen years by Nebuchadnezzar, but was destr...
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Behold the land of the Chaldeans, whence the destroyers came; THIS
PEOPLE WAS NOT, who at first did not figure in history, TILL THE
ASSYRIAN FOUNDED IT FOR THEM THAT DWELL IN THE WILDERNESS, for a
sec...
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1-14 Tyre was the mart of the nations. She was noted for mirth and
diversions; and this made her loth to consider the warnings God gave
by his servants. Her merchants were princes, and lived like pri...
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BEHOLD THE LAND OF THE CHALDEANS; you Tyrians, who think your city
impregnable, cast your eyes upon the land and empire of the Chaldeans,
or Babylonians; which though now it be a flourishing kingdom,...
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Isaiah 23:13 land H776 Chaldeans H3778 people H5971 Assyria H804
founded H3245 (H8804) desert H6728 up H6965 ...
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LAMENT OVER TYRE (ISAIAH 23:1).
The final burden is the burden of Tyre and Sidon. These were two
wealthy and powerful seaports on the Mediterranean coast from which
ships went out to all parts of the...
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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...
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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....
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_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...
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 23:1 The fifth oracle concerns the judgment
and redemption of Tyre.
⇐ ⇔...
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 23:13 The prophet directs Tyre’s attention
to Babylon in the LAND OF THE CHALDEANS, ruined by the Assyrians. If
Babylon is vulnerable, so is Tyre....
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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...
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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...
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2 Chronicles 33:11; 2 Kings 17:24; 2 Kings 20:12; Acts 7:4; Daniel 4
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Behold — Thou Tyrians, cast your eyes upon the Chaldeans or
Babylonians; who tho' now flourishing, grow far more glorious and
potent, even the glory of kingdoms, yet shall certainly be brought to
utte...