Ezekiel 27:5-7

5 They made all your timbers of juniper from Senir^[a] ; they took a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.

6 Of oaks from Bashan they made your oars; of cypress wood^[b] from the coasts of Cyprus they made your deck, adorned with ivory.

7 Fine embroidered linen from Egypt was your sail and served as your banner; your awnings were of blue and purple from the coasts of Elishah.

Ezekiel 27:5-7 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EZEKIEL 27

This chapter contains a lamentation on Tyre; setting forth her former grandeur, riches, and commerce; her ruin and destruction; and the concern of others on that account. The prophet is bid to take up his lamentation concerning it, Eze 27:1,2, observing her situation and magnificence, of which she boasted, Eze 27:3,4, describing the excellency of her shipping and naval stores, Eze 27:5-7, declaring who were her mariners, pilots, and caulkers, Eze 27:8,9, her military men, Eze 27:10,11 her several merchants, and the things they traded in with her in her fairs and markets, Eze 27:12-25, then follows an account of her destruction, Eze 27:26,27, the lamentation of pilots and mariners because of it, Eze 27:28-32, and of the kings and inhabitants of the isles, and merchants of the people, Eze 27:33-36.

Cross References

• 1. S Deuteronomy 3:9
• 2. S Isaiah 2:13
• 3. Numbers 21:33; S Psalms 29:9; Jeremiah 22:20; Zechariah 11:2
• 4. S Genesis 10:4; Isaiah 23:12
• 5. S Exodus 26:36; S Isaiah 19:9
• 6. Exodus 25:4; Jeremiah 10:9
• 7. Genesis 10:4

Footnotes

• [a] That is, Mount Hermon
• [b] Targum; the Masoretic Text has a different division of the consonants.