Ezekiel 27:8
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The men of Sidon and Arvad were your oarsmen. Your men of skill, O Tyre, were there as your captains.
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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 ↗27:8-11 The ship of Tyre was manned by a crew gathered from the most famously skilled men in the world. • The locations described in this account cover most of the known world at the time. Tyre’s influence was vast. 27:8-9 Sidon, Arvad, and Gebal were Mediterranean coastal towns.
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the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Later the Canaanite clans were scattered,
And Hiram sent his servants, men who knew the sea, to serve in the fleet with Solomon’s servants.
Men of Arvad and Helech manned your walls all around, and the men of Gammad were in your towers. They hung their shields around your walls; they perfected your beauty.
Zebulun shall dwell by the seashore and become a harbor for ships; his border shall extend to Sidon.
The countryside will shake when your sailors cry out.
Now therefore, order that cedars of Lebanon be cut down for me. My servants will be with your servants, and I will pay your servants whatever wages you set, for you know that there are none among us as skilled in logging as the Sidonians.”
And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,
and the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who struck them down and pursued them all the way to Greater Sidon and Misrephoth-maim, and eastward as far as the Valley of Mizpeh. They struck them down, leaving no survivors.
Concerning Damascus: “Hamath and Arpad are put to shame, for they have heard a bad report; they are agitated like the sea; their anxiety cannot be calmed.
“Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?