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THE LORD OF HOSTS HATH PURPOSED IT - (see the note at Isaiah 1:9). It
is not by human counsel that it has been done. Whoever is the
instrument, yet the overthrow of wicked, proud, and vicious cities a...
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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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THE LORD OF HOSTS. See note on Isaiah 1:9.
STAIN. pollute....
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This is the execution of Jehovah's purpose, and therefore
irreversible.
_the crowning city_ Or, THE CROWN-GIVER. Tyre is rightly so-called,
inasmuch as some of her colonies (Kition, Tarshish and Cart...
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Jehovah has purposed it in accordance with a fixed principle of His
government.
_to stain_(render TO DESECRATE) _the pride of all glory_ The thought
is the same as in ch. Isaiah 2:12 ff. For this use...
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WHO HATH TAKEN THIS COUNSEL, &C.— The prophet here informs us of the
great executor of this judgment, namely, God himself. To do this the
more elegantly, he introduces a chorus of men, astonished at t...
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b. SHAKEN
TEXT: Isaiah 23:8-14
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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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The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory,
and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.
THE LORD OF HOSTS. Whoever be the instruments in overthrowing haugh...
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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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יְהוָ֥ה צְבָאֹ֖ות יְעָצָ֑הּ לְ
חַלֵּל֙ גְּאֹ֣ון...
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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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There is hardly a passage in the whole prophecy of Isaiah more full
and comprehensive than what is contained in these verses, to set forth
man's nothingness, and the Lord's all-sufficiency. The Prophe...
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9._To profane the pride, _or, _to profane the loftiness; _for it may
be read either way, because loftiness leads to pride, and where
loftiness or a high spirit is found, there seldom is humility. But...
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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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THE LORD OF HOSTS HATH PURPOSED IT,.... To destroy Tyre; who is
wonderful in counsel, capable of forming a wise scheme, and able to
put it in execution; being the Lord of armies in heaven and in earth...
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The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory,
[and] to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.
Ver. 9. _The Lord of hosts hath purposed it._] Here the prophet sets...
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_Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre?_ Words of admiration. Who,
and where, is he that could imagine, or durst attempt such a thing as
this? This is the work of God, and not of man. _The crowning...
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The Lord of hosts hath purposed it, He who has the fortunes of all men
in His hands, TO STAIN THE PRIDE OF ALL GLORY, to profane, to bring
shame upon that which the Tyrians wrongfully elevated, AND TO...
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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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TO STAIN:
_ Heb._ to pollute...
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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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THE LORD OF HOSTS HATH PURPOSED IT; this is the Lord's own doing;
therefore do not doubt it, nor wonder at it. God's design is by this
one example to abate and abase the pride of all the potentates of...
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Isaiah 23:9 LORD H3068 hosts H6635 purposed H3289 (H8804) dishonor
H2490 (H8763) pride H1347 glory H6643 contempt...
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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 Lord of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory_
GOD ABASES PRIDE
In this message there is a revelation of the Divine method in dealing
with men and nations.
For here the Divine...
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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 23:7 The devastation of the city prompts the
deeper question, Who could decree the downfall of so great a human
power? THE LORD OF HOSTS. See...
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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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1 Corinthians 1:26; Acts 4:28; Daniel 4:37; Ephesians 1:11; E
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The Lord — This is the Lord's own doing. To stain — God's design
is by this example to abase the pride of all the potentates of the
earth....