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Verse Ezekiel 27:18. _DAMASCUS WINE OF HELBON_] Now called by the
Turks Haleb, and by us Aleppo.
_WHITE WOOL._] Very fine wool: wool of a fine quality. Some think
_Milesian wool_ is meant....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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WINE. Hebrew. _yayin_. App-27.
HELBON. Now _Helbon_, in the mountains, thirteen miles north of
Damascus....
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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...
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_wares of thy making_ THE MULTITUDE OF THY WORKS, i.e. the works done
for Tyre, all of which are hers.
_multitude of all riches_ or, BECAUSE OF EVERY KIND OF RICHES.
_wine of Helbon_ This is repeated...
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WINE OF HELBON, AND WHITE WOOL— _Helbon_ is now _Aleppo. Ezekiel
27:19. Cassia and Calamus_] _Storax, and sweet cane._...
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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...
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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...
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Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy
making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and
white wool.
DAMASCUS WAS THY MERCHANT ... IN THE WINE OF HELBON -...
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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...
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HELBON] a wine-growing district 13 m. N. of Damascus....
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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
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WINE OF HELBON. — Helbon is identified with a village of the same
name, three and a half hours north of Damascus, rich in ruins, and
still devoted to the culture of the vine, from which the costliest...
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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...
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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,...
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_Rich. Hebrew Chelbon; perhaps the city Chelba, Judges i. 31. The
kings of Persia used this wine, and planted vines at Damascus on
purpose._...
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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...
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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...
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DAMASCUS WAS THY MERCHANT IN THE MULTITUDE OF THE WARES OF THY
MAKING,.... Of the many things manufactured at Tyre, the inhabitants
of Damascus, once the chief city of Syria, took some:
FOR THE MULTI...
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_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...
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Damascus, the metropolis of Northern Syria, WAS THY MERCHANT IN THE
MULTITUDE OF THE WARES OF THY MAKING, that is, also an important
customer in buying Tyrian manufactures, FOR THE MULTITUDE OF ALL
RI...
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DESCRIPTION OF THE COMMERCE OF TYRE...
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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...
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DAMASCUS; a very ancient and wealthy city of Syria, and the royal
city. THE WARES OF THY MAKING; see the phrase EZEKIEL 27:16. FOR THE
MULTITUDE OF ALL RICHES: though the Tyrians had many rich and lov...
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Ezekiel 27:18 Damascus H1834 merchant H5503 (H8802) abundance H7230
made H4639 many H7230 items H1952 wine H3196
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“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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Kings 11:24; 1 Kings 11:25; Acts 9:2; Genesis 15:2; Isaiah 7:8...