Isaiah 23:10 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more strength.c ”

Isaiah 23:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Pass through thy land as a river - This verse has been very variously understood. Vitringa supposes that it means that all that held the city together - its fortifications, walls, etc., would be...
Isaiah 23:10 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Pass through thy land as a river, O (n) daughter of Tarshish: [there is] no more strength. (n) Your strength will no more serve you: therefore flee to other countries for comfort.
Isaiah 23:10 - 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, how...
Isaiah 23:10 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

10. For there is not any longer a girdle. (110) מזח ( mēzăch) is translated by some a girdle, and by others strength. Those who translate it girdle, suppose the meaning to be that T...
Isaiah 23:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more strength. O daughter of Tarshish - Tyre is called the daughter of Tarshish; perhaps because, Tyre being ruined, Tarshish w...
Isaiah 23:10 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Who hath taken this counsel, &c.— The prophet here informs us of the great executor of this judgment, namely, God himself. To do this the more elegantly, he introduces a chorus of men, astonish...
Isaiah 23:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more strength. A river - Hebrew, Cayeor, 'as the river Nile.' O daughter of Tarshish - Tyre and its inhabitants, abou...
Isaiah 23:10 - 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 Mediterra...
Isaiah 23:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER XVIII TYRE; OR, THE MERCENARY SPIRIT 702 B.C. Isaiah 23:1-18 THE task, which was laid upon the religion of Israel while Isaiah was its prophet, was the task, as we have often told our...
Isaiah 23:10 - 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 aff...
Isaiah 23:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Here we are brought acquainted with the means the Lord will make use of, for the overthrow of Tyre. The Chaldeans shall be the Lord's instruments; and what adds to the aggravation of Tyre's sorrow, t...
Isaiah 23:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish ,.... Or, "of the sea", as the Vulgate Latin; meaning Tyre, which was situated in the sea, and did, as it were, spring from it, and was forti...
Isaiah 23:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: [there is] no more strength. Ver. 10. Pass through the land as a river, ] i.e., Hastily: a Abi praeceps, pack up and begone with al...
Isaiah 23:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Pass through thy land Tarry no longer in thy own territories, but flee through them, into other countries, for safety and relief. As a river Swiftly, lest you be prevented; continually, till you...
Isaiah 23:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Doom of Tyre. B. C. 718. 1 The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is...
Isaiah 23:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Pass through the land; tarry no longer in thy own territories, but flee through them, and beyond them, into other countries, for safety and relief. As a river; swiftly, lest you be prevented; and...
Isaiah 23:10 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Lament Over Tyre ( Isaiah 23:1-14 ). 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 part...
Isaiah 23:10 - 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 se...
Isaiah 23:10 - 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 pla...
Isaiah 23:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Isaiah 23:1-23 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...
Isaiah 23:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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 d...
Isaiah 23:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 28:20 ; Haggai 2:22 ; Isaiah 23:12 ; Isaiah 23:14 ; Job 12:21 ; Lamentations 1:6 ; Psalms 18:32 ; Romans 5:6
Isaiah 23:10 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Pass through — Tarry no longer in thy own territories, but flee through them, into other countries, for safety and relief. As a river — Swiftly, lest you be prevented. Tarshish — O Tyre, which migh...

Isaiah 23:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Isaiah 23:10 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Isaiah 23:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 23:10 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 23:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Isaiah 23:10 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 23:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 23:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 23:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Isaiah 23:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 23:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Isaiah 23:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Isaiah 23:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 23:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 23:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Isaiah 23:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 23:10 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 23:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 23:10 - The Biblical Illustrator

Isaiah 23:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Isaiah 23:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Isaiah 23:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 23:10 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes