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Verse Ezekiel 27:3. _THE ENTRY OF THE SEA_] Tyre was a small island,
or rather rock, in the sea, at a short distance from the main land. We
have already seen that there was another Tyre on the main la...
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ENTRY - literally, “entries.” Ancient Tyre had two ports, that
called the Sidonian to the north, the Egyptian to the south; the
former exists to the present day. The term “entry of the sea” is
natural...
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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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THE ENTRY, &c. Denoting the insular Tyre.
PEOPLE. peoples.
ISLES. coast, or maritime lands.
THE LORD GOD. Hebrew. _Adonai Jehovah_. See note on Ezekiel 2:4....
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_entry of the sea_ lit. _entries_, reference possibly being to the two
harbours of Tyre, one of which was to the N.-E. of the island, called
the Sidonian harbour, because looking towards Sidon; and th...
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WHICH ART A MERCHANT, &C.— _Which joinest people by commerce,
through many isles._ Houbigant; who renders the beginning of the next
verse, _Thy borders extend even to the middle of the sea._...
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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
dwell...
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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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And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea,
which art a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord
GOD; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty.
O T...
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27:3 situate (d-9) Or 'thou that dwellest.' isles, (e-23) Or 'maritime
countries,' 'coasts.'...
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PEOPLE] RV 'peoples'; and so everywhere....
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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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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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AT THE ENTRY OF THE SEA. — The word for “entry” in the original
is plural, and means the approaches to the sea, or harbours. Tyre had
two of these, both remarkably good: the “Egyptian,” facing the
sou...
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וְ אָמַרְתָּ֣ לְ צֹ֗ור
_הַ_†_יֹּשֶׁ֨בֶת֙_† עַל...
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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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And say to Tyre, O thou that dwelleth at the entrance of the sea,
[which art] a merchant (a) of the people for many isles, Thus saith
the Lord GOD; O Tyre, thou hast said, I [am] of perfect beauty.
...
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_Entry, whence merchants may proceed from an excellent harbour to any
place._...
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It was said in the preceding Chapter, (Ezekiel 26:6), that Tyrus
should know by the Lord's judgments, that He was the Lord. In this
Chapter, the Lord commands his servant to put Tyrus in mind of her
p...
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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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AND SAY UNTO TYRUS, O THOU THAT ART SITUATE AT THE ENTRY OF THE
SEA,.... Of the Mediterranean sea; at the eastern part of it, not
above half a mile from the continent; and so fit for a seaport, and a...
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And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea,
[which art] a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the
Lord GOD; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I [am] of perfect beauty.
V...
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_Take up a lamentation for Tyrus_ This alludes to the mournful
lamentations used at funerals, wherein the mourning women recounted
every thing that was valuable or praiseworthy belonging to the
deceas...
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and say unto Tyrus, the direct address intensifying the force of the
lament, O THOU THAT ART SITUATE AT THE ENTRY OF THE SEA, its double
harbor giving it ready access to the Mediterranean Sea and to a...
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DESCRIPTION OF THE GLORY AND MIGHT OF TYRE...
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OF PERFECT BEAUTY:
_ Heb._ perfect of beauty...
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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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Personate Tyre as near thee, and hearing what thou sayest unto or of
her; describe her, that she may know thou speakest to her. THAT ART
SITUATE; that dwellest, so the Hebrew. THE ENTRY, Heb. _entranc...
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‘The word of Yahweh came to me again, saying, “And you, son of
man, take up a lamentation for Tyre. And say to Tyre:
“You, O Tyre, have said,
‘I am perfect in beauty.
Your borders are in the heart...
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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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_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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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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Ezekiel 26:17; Ezekiel 27:10; Ezekiel 27:11; Ezekiel 27:12;...
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At the entry — Heb. Entrances. She was about four furlongs, or half
an English mile from the continent, as it were in the very door of the
sea....