Ezekiel 27:7
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Of embroidered fine linen from Egypt they made your sail, which served as your banner. Of blue and purple from the coasts of Elishah they made your awning.
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Still we are attending the funeral of Tyre and the lamentations made for the fall of that renowned city. In this chapter we have, I. A large account of the dignity, wealth, and splendour of Tyre, while it was in its strength, the vast trade it drove, and the interest it had among the nations (v. 1-25), which is designed to make its ruin the more lamentable. II. A prediction of its fall and ruin, and the confusion and consternation which all its neighbours shall thereby be put into (Eze 27:26-36). And this is intended to stain the pride of all worldly glory, and, by setting the one over-against the other, to let us see the vanity and uncertainty of the riches, honours, and pleasures of the world, and what little reason we have to place our happiness in them or to be confident of the continuance of them; so that all this is written for our learning.
Open source ↗27:7 Elishah refers to part of Cyprus.
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Hammered silver is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz— the work of a craftsman from the hands of a goldsmith. Their clothes are blue and purple, all fashioned by skilled workers.
blue, purple, and scarlet yarn; fine linen and goat hair;
And the sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittites, and the Rodanites.
The workers in flax will be dismayed, and the weavers of fine linen will turn pale.
Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and Kue; the royal merchants purchased them from Kue.
I have decked my bed with coverings, with colored linen from Egypt.
And the sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittites, and the Rodanites.