“ Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle. ”
Pass ye over - That is, ye inhabitants of tyre. This is an address to Tyre, in view of her approaching destruction; and is designed to signify that when the city was destroyed, its inhabitants wo...
Pass ye over to (l) Tarshish; wail, ye inhabitants of the isle. (l) Tyrus wills other merchants to go to Cilicia, and to come no more there.
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...
6. Pass ye over to Tarshish. He addresses not only the inhabitants of Tyre, but foreigners who were connected with them by trading, and bids them go elsewhere and seek new harbours: and he m...
Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle.
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 t...
Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle. Pass ye over to Tarshish. Escape from Tyre to your colonies, as Tarshish (cf. Isaiah 23:12 ). The Tyrians fled to Carthage and els...
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...
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...
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...
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 th...
Pass ye over to Tarshish ,.... Either to Tartessus in Spain, or to Tarsus in Cilicia, which lay over against them, and to which they might transport themselves, families, and substance, with greater...
Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle. Ver. 6. Pass ye over to Tarshish. ] Tyrii migrate coloni, be packing any whither, and make any shift to save your lives, Ultra Saurom...
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 LX...
The Doom of Tyre. B. C. 718. 1 The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is...
Pass ye over to Tarshish; flee from your own country to Tarsus of Cilicia, and there bewail your calamities. Or rather, as others render the place, Pass over the sea , which is oft called Tarshish...
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 23:1 . 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...
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...
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...
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 16:7 ; Isaiah 21:15 ; Isaiah 23:1 ; Isaiah 23:10 ; Isaiah 23:12 ; Isaiah 23:2