Eze 27:1-5 - Commentary

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Text -- Ezekiel 27:1-5 (NET)

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A Lament for Tyre

27:1 The word of the Lord came to me: 27:2 “You, son of man, sing a lament for Tyre. 27:3 Say to Tyre, who sits at the entrance of the sea, merchant to the peoples on many coasts, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: “‘O Tyre, you have said, “I am perfectly beautiful.” 27:4 Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders have perfected your beauty. 27:5 They crafted all your planks out of fir trees from Senir; they took a cedar from Lebanon to make your mast.

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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:

· Lebanon a mountain range and the adjoining regions (IBD)

· sea the Dead Sea, at the southern end of the Jordan River,the Mediterranean Sea,the Persian Gulf south east of Babylon,the Red Sea

· Senir a mountain; the Amorite name for Mt. Hermon (OS)

· Tyre a resident of the town of Tyre

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Eze 27:2 Heb “lift up over Tyre a lament.”

NET Notes: Eze 27:3 Rome, another economic power, is described in a similar way in Rev 17:1.

NET Notes: Eze 27:4 The city of Tyre is described in the following account as a merchant ship.

NET Notes: Eze 27:5 Perhaps the hull or deck. The term is dual, so perhaps it refers to a double-decked ship.

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