Yehezkiel 27:27

27:27 Your wealth, products, and merchandise, your sailors and captains,

your ship’s carpenters, ¹  your merchants,

and all your fighting men within you,

along with all your crew who are in you,

will fall into the heart of the seas on the day of your downfall.

Yehezkiel 5:1

5:1 “As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword and use it as a barber’s razor. ²  Shave off some of the hair from your head and your beard. ³  Then take scales and divide up the hair you cut off.

Yehezkiel 17:4

17:4 He plucked off its topmost shoot;

he brought it to a land of merchants

and planted it in a city of traders.

Yehezkiel 27:23

27:23 Haran, Kanneh, Eden, merchants from Sheba, Asshur, and Kilmad were your clients.

Yehezkiel 22:28

22:28 Her prophets coat their messages with whitewash. ⁴  They see false visions and announce lying omens for them, saying, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says,’ when the Lord has not spoken.

Yehezkiel 27:22

27:22 The merchants of Sheba and Raamah engaged in trade with you; they traded the best kinds of spices along with precious stones and gold for your products.

Yehezkiel 27:3

27:3 Say to Tyre, who sits at the entrance ⁵  of the sea, ⁶  merchant to the peoples on many coasts, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says:

“‘O Tyre, you have said, “I am perfectly beautiful.”

Yehezkiel 27:9

27:9 The elders of Gebal ⁷  and her skilled men were within you, mending cracks; ⁸ 

all the ships of the sea and their mariners were within you to trade for your merchandise. ⁹ 

Yehezkiel 27:4

27:4 ¹⁰ Your borders are in the heart of the seas;

your builders have perfected your beauty.

Yehezkiel 27:8

27:8 The leaders ¹¹  of Sidon ¹²  and Arvad ¹³  were your rowers;

your skilled ¹⁴  men, O Tyre, were your captains.

Yehezkiel 39:15

39:15 When the scouts survey ¹⁵  the land and see a human bone, they will place a sign by it, until those assigned to burial duty have buried it ¹⁶  in the valley of Hamon-Gog.

[27:27]  ¹ tn Heb “your repairers of damage.” See v. 9.

[5:1]  ² tn The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT.

[5:1]  ³ tn Heb, “pass (it) over your head and your beard.”

[22:28]  ⁴ tn Heb “her prophets coat for themselves with whitewash.” The expression may be based on Ezek 13:10-15.

[27:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “entrances.” The plural noun may reflect the fact that Tyre had two main harbors.

[27:3]  ⁶ sn Rome, another economic power, is described in a similar way in Rev 17:1.

[27:9]  ⁷ sn Another Phoenician coastal city located between Sidon and Arvad.

[27:9]  ⁸ tn Heb “strengthening damages.” Here “to strengthen” means to repair. The word for “damages” occurs several times in 1 Kgs 12 about some type of damage to the temple, which may have referred to or included cracks. Since the context describes Tyre in its glory, we do not expect this reference to damages to be of significant scale, even if there are repairmen. This may refer to using pitch to seal the seams of the ship, which had to be done periodically and could be considered routine maintenance rather than repair of damage.

[27:9]  ⁹ sn The reference to “all the ships of the sea…within you” suggests that the metaphor is changing; previously Tyre had been described as a magnificent ship, but now the description shifts back to an actual city. The “ships of the sea” were within Tyre’s harbor. Verse 11 refers to “walls” and “towers” of the city.

[27:4]  ¹⁰ tn The city of Tyre is described in the following account as a merchant ship.

[27:8]  ¹¹ tc The MT reads “the residents of”; the LXX reads “your rulers who dwell in.” With no apparent reason for the LXX to add “the rulers” many suppose something has dropped out of the Hebrew text. While more than one may be possible, Allen’s proposal, positing a word meaning “elders,” is the most likely to explain the omission in the MT from a graphic standpoint and also provides a parallel to the beginning of v. 9. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:81.a parallel to v. 9.

[27:8]  ¹² map For location see Map1 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.

[27:8]  ¹³ sn Sidon and Arvad, like Tyre, were Phoenician coastal cities.

[27:8]  ¹⁴ tn Or “wise.”

[39:15]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “as the scouts scout.”

[39:15]  ¹⁶ tn That is, the aforementioned bone.