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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 23:7

Is this your joyous city - Is this the city that was just now so full of happiness, of revelry, of business, of gaiety, of rejoicing? (see the note at Isaiah 22:2)Whose antiquity is of ancient days - Strabo (xvi. 756) says, ‘After Sidon, Tyre, a splendid and most ancient city, is to be compared in greatness, beauty, and antiquity, with Sidon.’ Curtius (Hist. Alex. iv. 4) says, ‘The city was taken, distinguished both by its antiquity, and its great variety of fortune.’ Arrian (ii. 16) says, that... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 23:6-7

Isaiah 23:6-7. Pass ye over to Tarshish Flee from your own country to Tartessus in Spain, and there bewail your calamity. Or, betake yourselves for refuge to some of the parts to which you used to traffic. The LXX. say, εις Καρχηδονα , to Carthage, which was a colony transplanted from Tyre. Howl, ye inhabitants of the isle Of Tyre, as Isaiah 23:2. Is this your joyous city? That formerly lived in so much pomp, and pleasure, and security? Whose antiquity is of ancient days See on... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Isaiah 23:1-18

Judgment on Phoenicia (23:1-18)Commerce was the source of Phoenicia’s power. Its merchant navy was well known throughout the ancient world, and Phoenician traders sailed to ports far and near. Phoenicia’s own ports, Tyre and Sidon, were among the most prosperous cities of the time, but because of their commercial greed and corruption they too will be destroyed.The prophet pictures the scene in various places when Tyre falls. Phoenician traders who have sailed to Cyprus are shocked when they... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 23:7

antiquity = origin. feet. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Subject), for the vessels in which the Tyrians fled from Nebuchadnezzar. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Isaiah 23:6

"Pass ye over to Tarshish; wail, ye inhabitants of the coast. Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days, whose feet carried her afar off to sojourn? Who hath purposed this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honorable of the earth? Jehovah of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.""Whose feet carried her afar off to sojourn ..." (Isaiah 23:7). This... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 23:6-7

Isaiah 23:6-7. Pass ye over to Tarshish— The prophet now turns his discourse to Tyre itself; and commands or exhorts such of the inhabitants, not of insular Tyre only, but of the whole maritime coast subject to the dominion of Tyre, as should remain from this overthrow, to go to Tartessus or Gades, that there they might deplore the fate of their city, and mutually lament its destruction with those who would feel their grief, as deriving their original from the same city. Whenever the prophets... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 23:6

6. Pass . . . over—Escape from Tyre to your colonies as Tarshish (compare :-). The Tyrians fled to Carthage and elsewhere, both at the siege under Nebuchadnezzar and that under Alexander. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 23:7

7. Is this silent ruin all that is left of your once joyous city ( :-)? antiquity—The Tyrian priests boasted in HERODOTUS' time that their city had already existed 2300 years: an exaggeration, but still implying that it was ancient even then. her own feet—walking on foot as captives to an enemy's land. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 23:6-7

Isaiah advised refugees to flee from Tyre to Tarshish. How the course of Tyre’s fate would change! She had for centuries been a world power, not as an empire but as a broker of international trade. Her ambitions were not political, to rule others, but commercial, to grow rich. As such, Tyre symbolizes one aspect of worldly endeavor. read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 23:1-18

The Doom of TyreTyre 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 Mediterranean. It is uncertain what siege of Tyre is here referred to; but see on Isaiah 23:13.1-5. The news of the fall of Tyre is spread. 6-9. Tyre must take refuge in her distant colonies, for her doom is purposed by Jehovah. 10-14. But even her colonies will afford no refuge, for the power of Phœnicia will... read more