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Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Isaiah 23:7

antiquity. origin.

feet. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Subject), for the vessels in which the Tyrians fled from Nebuchadnezzar.

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See also Isaiah 23:7 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 23:7. _WHOSE ANTIQUITY IS OF ANCIENT DAYS_ - "Whose antiquity is of the earliest date"] Justin, in the passage above quoted, had dated the building of Tyre at a certain number of years b...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    IS THIS YOUR JOYOUS CITY - Is this the city that was just now so full of happiness, of revelry, of business, of gaiety, of rejoicing? (see the note at Isaiah 22:2) WHOSE ANTIQUITY IS OF ANCIENT DAYS -...

  • 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 reference is of course to Tyre, the principal subject of the prophecy. _whose antiquity … days_ Next to Zidon, Tyre was regarded as the most ancient city of Phœnicia. Her priests claimed for thei...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    PASS YE OVER TO TARSHISH— The prophet now turns his discourse to Tyre itself; and commands or exhorts such of the inhabitants, not of insular Tyre only, but of the whole maritime coast subject to the...

  • 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

    Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn. (IS) THIS YOUR JOYOUS (CITY)? Is this silent ruin all that is left of your once joyo...

  • 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

    HER OWN, etc.] RV 'whose feet carried her.'...

  • 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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הֲ זֹ֥את לָכֶ֖ם עַלִּיזָ֑ה מִֽ ימֵי ־קֶ֤דֶם

  • 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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Sojourn. Many fled, others were made captives._...

  • 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

    7._Is this your exulting city? _The Prophet mocks at Tyre, and ridicules her pride, because she boasted of the antiquity of her name. He likewise confirms what all would suppose to be incredible; for...

  • 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

    [IS] THIS YOUR JOYOUS [CITY]?.... Which the other day looked so gay, brisk, and cheerful, through the number of its inhabitants, largeness of trade, fullness of provisions, and pleasures of every kind...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Isaiah 23:7 [Is] this your joyous [city], whose antiquity [is] of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn. Ver. 7. _Is this your joyous city?_] _q.d., _ So ye were wont to hold...

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

    _Pass ye over to Tarshish_ Flee from your own country to Tartessus in Spain, and there bewail your calamity. Or, betake yourselves for refuge to some of the parts to which you used to traffic. The LXX...

  • 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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? That was the end of all her proud self-glorification. HER OWN FEET SHALL CARRY HER AFAR OFF TO SOJOURN, rather, "whose feet carried her af...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    AFAR OFF: _ Heb._ from afar off...

  • 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

    IS THIS YOUR JOYOUS CITY, that formerly lived in so much pomp, and pleasure, and security? Whose antiquity is of ancient days; being built before Joshua's time, as is manifest from JOSHUA 19:29. _Her...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 23:7 joyous H5947 antiquity H6927 ancient H6924 days H3117 feet H7272 carried H2986 (H8686) off H7350 dwell...

  • 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 ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • 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

    Ecclesiastes 10:7; Isaiah 22:2; Isaiah 47:1; Isaiah 47:2; Joshua 19:29

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Antiquity — Being built before Joshua's time, Joshua 19:29. Her feet — Whereas before, like a delicate lady, she would not set her foot to the ground, but used to be carried in stately chariots. To so...

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