“ The suburbsl shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots. ”
The suburbs - Or, “precincts.” Tyre rose from the midst of the sea; her “precincts” were the surrounding waters and the adjoining coasts.
The (m) common lands shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots. (m) That is, the cities near you, as Zidon, Arund and others.
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...
suburbs. The root garash. to drive out or about. When used of. city it. suburbs; but, when used of the sea, it. the driving and casting about of the waves. Compare Isaiah 37:20 . It means here tha...
The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots. The cry of thy pilots - When the ship was dashed against the rocks by the violence of the winds and the waves, and all hope of life was...
The suburbs shall shake— The neighbouring places. Houbigant.
The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots. The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots - the buildings of Tyre on the adjoining continent.
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 E...
Suburbs. — This word means an open place around a building or city. There was no land around Tyre, and it is here used, therefore, in a general sense — all thy surroundings.
TYRE (CONTINUED): SIDON Ezekiel 27:1-36 ; Ezekiel 28:1-26 THE remaining oracles on Tyre (Chapter s 27, Ezekiel 28:1-19 ) are somewhat different both in subject and mode of treatment from the...
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,...
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 wh...
The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots. Or governors, as the Targum; and so the Vulgate Latin, and all the Oriental versions: the allegory of a ship wrecked is still continue...
The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots. Ver. 28. The suburbs shall shake. ] Or, The waves, or the boats which they throw out of the ship. See on Ezekiel 26:10 . Of the...
Thy riches, &c., and all thy company, shall fall into the midst of the seas Shall be as utterly ruined and destroyed as if they were sunk in the sea by a shipwreck. Or, this may signify their f...
The Fall of Tyre. B. C. 588. 26 Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the ea...
The lesser cities on terra firma shall be alarmed with summons of their governors to put themselves in a posture of defence. Or, the waves, an elegant hyperbole, thus read; The very waves, which ro...
“At the sound of the cry of your rope-pullers, the countryside will shake, And all that handle the oar, the mariners, all the rope-pullers of the sea, Will come down from their ships, they will sta...
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 ar...
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 dis...
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 b...
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 rem...
The Fall of Tyre
Exodus 15:14 ; Ezekiel 26:10 ; Ezekiel 26:15-18 ; Ezekiel 27:35 ; Ezekiel 31:16 ; Nahum 2:3
The suburbs — The suburbs, which are nearest the sea, shall first hear the out — cries of pilots, and mariners.