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Verse Ezekiel 27:9. _THE ANCIENTS OF GEBAL_] This was a city of
Phoenicia, near Mount Libanus, Joshua 13:5. It was called _Biblos_ by
the Greeks.
_THY CALKERS_] Those who repaired their vessels; _pa...
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GEBAL - i. e., Byblos (modern Gebeil) in Phoenicia, the chief seat of
the worship of Adonis, and situated on an eminence over-looking the
river Adonis, north of Beirut, not far from the Mediterranean...
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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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ANCIENTS. elders.
GEBAL. Now Jebeil, on the coast between Beirut and Tripolis.
OCCUPY. barter, or trade....
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_ancients of Gebal_ The ELDERS, a title of honour or office, the
magistrates. Probably also the "wise men thereof" is a semi-official
title (cf. Ezekiel 27:8). The power of Tyre was exerted over all h...
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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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The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy
calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to
occupy thy merchandise.
THE ANCIENTS OF GEBAL - a Phoenician ci...
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27:9 wise (h-7) Or 'skilful.' leaks; (i-15) Lit. 'making fast thy
chinks;' perhaps 'thy calkers.' so ver. 27. thee. (k-31) Lit. 'barter
thy barter.' so ver. 27....
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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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GEBAL] a coast town some 50 m. N. of Tyre, the classical Byblos: see
Joshua 13:5; 1 Kings 5:18 (RV).
OCCUPY] RM 'exchange.' This is the old meaning of the word, which is
regularly used in this sense i...
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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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THE ANCIENTS OF GEBAL. — “The ancients” is a thoroughly Semitic
expression for the prominent men of a city. Gebal, the ancient Byblos,
the modern Gébeil, and the Gu-ba-lu of the Assyrian inscriptions,...
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זִקְנֵ֨י גְבַ֤ל וַ חֲכָמֶ֨יהָ֙ הָ֣יוּ
בָ֔ךְ מ
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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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The ancients of Gebal and its wise [men] were in thee thy (d) calkers:
all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to exchange
thy merchandise.
(d) Meaning, that they built the walls of...
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_Gebal. Septuagint, "Biblos," which is the same, 3 Kings v. 18. ---
Furnished. Hebrew, "were in thee to repair thy breaches." Septuagint,
"strengthened thy designs."_...
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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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THE ANCIENTS OF GEBAL,.... A promontory of the Phoenicians, the same
with the Gabale of Pliny n, and with the land of the Giblites, Joshua
13:5. It was by the Greeks called Byblus; and so the Septuagi...
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The ancients of Gebal and the wise [men] thereof were in thee thy
calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to
occupy thy merchandise.
Ver. 9. _The ancients of Gebal._] Great...
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_The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners_ So great was
the opulence and pride of the Tyrians, that they hired foreigners to
do the more laborious and menial employments, and would do noth...
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The ancients of Gebal, a Phoenician city between Beirut and Tripolis,
AND THE WISE MEN THEREOF, skilful artisans or mechanics, WERE IN THEE
THY CALKERS, the workmen employed to stop the holes and chin...
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DESCRIPTION OF THE GLORY AND MIGHT OF TYRE...
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CALKERS:
Or, stoppers of chinks. _Heb._ strengtheners...
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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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THE ANCIENTS; old experienced workmen. OF GEBAL; a town of Phoenicia
near the sea, one of the four principal towns, to which belonged a
jurisdiction over a fourth part of Phoenicia, mentioned PSALMS 8...
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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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EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 27:8 The MARINERS came from various
Phoenician coastal cities.
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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 5:18; Ezekiel 27:27; Joshua 13:5; Psalms 83:7...
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The ancients — Old experienced workmen. Gebal — A town of
Phoenicia near the sea. The wise men — Skilful in their trades. Were
in thee — Who dwelt in Tyre for gain. All the ships — Ships from
all part...