Isaiah 23:8 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth? ”

Isaiah 23:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Who hath taken this counsel? - To whom is this to be traced? Is this the work of man, or is it the plan of God? - questions which would naturally arise at the contemplation of the ruin of a city...
Isaiah 23:8 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the (m) crowning [city], whose merchants [are] princes, whose traders [are] the honourable of the earth? (m) Who makes her merchants like princes.
Isaiah 23:8 - 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 23:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

crowning . crown-giver: i.e. conferring crowns on other Phoenician cities.
Isaiah 23:8 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

8. Against crowning Tyre. He adorns with this title the city which enriched many, as may be easily learned from the context; for when he calls her merchants “kings,” he plainly states that b...
Isaiah 23:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city , whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?
Isaiah 23:8 - 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 23:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth? Who - Answered in Isaiah 23:9 , "The Lord of host...
Isaiah 23:8 - 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 23:8 - 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 23:8 - 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 23:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

There is hardly a passage in the whole prophecy of Isaiah more full and comprehensive than what is contained in these verses, to set forth man's nothingness, and the Lord's all-sufficiency. The Proph...
Isaiah 23:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning [city] ,.... Which had a king over it, to whom it gave a crown; and which crowned its inhabitants with riches and plenty, and even enriched the...
Isaiah 23:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning [city], whose merchants [are] princes, whose traffickers [are] the honourable of the earth? Ver. 8. The crowning city. ] Heb., The crowning o...
Isaiah 23:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre? Words of admiration. Who, and where, is he that could imagine, or durst attempt such a thing as this? This is the work of God, and not of man. The crownin...
Isaiah 23:8 - 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 23:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre? words of admiration: who and where is he that could imagine or durst attempt such a thing as this? This is the work of God, as is expressed, Isaiah 23:9...
Isaiah 23:8 - 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 23:8 - 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 23:8 - 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 23:8 - 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 23:8 - 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 23:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 29:24-28 ; Ezekiel 28:12-18 ; Ezekiel 28:2-6 ; Isaiah 10:8 ; Isaiah 36:9 ; Jeremiah 50:44 ; Jeremiah 50:45 ; Revelation 18:8
Isaiah 23:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Who — This is the word of God, and not of man. The crowning city — Which was a royal city, and carried away the crown from all other cities. Princes — Equal to princes for wealth, and power, and re...

Isaiah 23:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Isaiah 23:8 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Isaiah 23:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 23:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Isaiah 23:8 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 23:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Isaiah 23:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 23:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 23:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 23:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Isaiah 23:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 23:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Isaiah 23:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Isaiah 23:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 23:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 23:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Isaiah 23:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 23:8 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 23:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 23:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

Isaiah 23:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Isaiah 23:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Isaiah 23:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 23:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes