Ezekiel 27:4-6

4 Your domain was on the high seas; your builders brought your beauty to perfection.
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.

Ezekiel 27:4-6 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 5

  • 1. Ezekiel 28:12
  • 2. S Deuteronomy 3:9
  • 3. S Isaiah 2:13
  • 4. Numbers 21:33; S Psalms 29:9; Jeremiah 22:20; Zechariah 11:2
  • 5. S Genesis 10:4; Isaiah 23:12

Footnotes 2

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