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Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Isaiah 23:5

As at the report concerning &c.: or, When the report comes to Egypt they are forthwith in terror at the report concerning Tyre.

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See also Isaiah 23:5 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AS AT THE REPORT CONCERNING EGYPT - According to our translation, this verse would seem to mean that the Sidonians and other nations had been pained or grieved at the report of the calamities that had...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The verse should be read as in R.V. WHEN THE REPORT COMETH TO EGYPT, THEY SHALL BE SORELY PAINED AT THE REPORT OF TYRE. Assyria being the common enemy of Egypt and Tyre, the report of the latter's fal...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE 3. TYRE a. SPLENDOR TEXT: Isaiah 23:1-7 1 The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Ki...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    As at the report concerning Egypt, so shall they be sorely pained at the report of Tyre. AS AT THE REPORT CONCERNING EGYPT, (SO) SHALL THEY BE SORELY PAINED AT THE REPORT OF TYRE - rather, 'When th...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    23:5 Tyre. (f-16) Or 'As at the report concerning Egypt, they are sorely pained at the report of Tyre.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    RV 'When the report cometh to Egypt they shall be sorely pained.'...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD CONTROLS THE FUTURE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 21 TO 30 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 23 All the verses in this chapter refer to both Tyre and Sidon. This is so even if on...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    The people in Egypt could not sell their crops when the merchants from Tyre and Sidon were unable to trade....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כַּֽ אֲשֶׁר ־שֵׁ֖מַע לְ מִצְרָ֑יִם יָחִ֖ילוּ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    As at the report concerning Egypt, [so] shall they be (k) greatly pained at the report of Tyre. (k) Because these two countries were joined in league together....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    It is remarkable that this prophecy was delivered at a time when Tyre was in the height of prosperity, and resting to the full in the enjoyment of flourishing trade and merchandize. For long after thi...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    5._As soon as the report shall reach the Egyptians. _(106) In this verse he declares that this destruction will affect equally the inhabitants of Tyre and those of Egypt; and this confirms the exposit...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AS AT THE REPORT CONCERNING EGYPT,.... Its future destruction prophesied of, Isaiah 19:1 or what had in times past befallen it when the ten plagues were inflicted on it, and Pharaoh and his host were...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    As at the report concerning Egypt, [so] shall they be sorely pained at the report of Tyre. Ver. 5. _As at the report concerning Egypt,_] _i.e,_ Concerning their overthrow once at the Red Sea. Exo 15:...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _As at the report concerning Egypt_, &c. “The words, as they stand in our translation, imply, that the Zidonians, spoken of Isaiah 23:4, or in general other neighbouring places, should be as much conc...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    As at the report concerning Egypt, when the sad news concerning the fall of Tyre shall reach Egypt, SO SHALL THEY BE SORELY PAINED AT THE REPORT OF TYRE, because this meant not only a severe reduction...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    According to this translation the sense is, All the neighbouring nations shall be no less terrified at the tidings of lite destruction of Tyrus, than they were of old upon the report of God's former a...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 23:5 report H8088 Egypt H4714 agony H2342 (H8799) report H8088 Tyre H6865 at the - Isai

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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....

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 23:1 The fifth oracle concerns the judgment and redemption of Tyre. ⇐ ⇔...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Exodus 15:14; Ezekiel 26:15; Ezekiel 27:29; Ezekiel 28:19;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Waters — By the sea, which is very fitly called the great waters, understand, cometh, or is brought to her. The seed — The corn of Egypt, wherewith Egypt abounded. Sihor is the same as the Nile. The h...

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