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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 23:1-14

Lament Over Tyre (Isaiah 23:1-14 ). The final burden is the burden of Tyre and Sidon. These were two wealthy and powerful seaports on the Mediterranean coast from which ships went out to all parts of the known world. Their largest ships were called ships of Tarshish, possibly because of the smelted metals that they carried, or possibly because of the destinations that they reached (Jonah set sail for Tarshish from Joppa in order to go to a distant land - Jonah 1:3; Jonah 4:2). There may in... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 23:1-18

Isaiah 23. Oracle on Tyre.— The date and authorship are alike very uncertain. If by Isaiah, the occasion may be the siege of Tyre by Shalmaneser about 727– 722 (p. 59), the historicity of which, however, is questioned by some, or Sennacherib’ s invasion in 701. The text of 13 is very suspicious, and its interpretation very uncertain, or it might have helped to fix the date. Isaiah 23:15-Job : is probably a post-exilic appendix. Isaiah 23:1-2 Chronicles : is perhaps best referred to... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 23:1

The burden of Tyre; the prophecy of the heavy calamity and destruction of Tyre; which now stood in its strength and glory, being seated in an island, upon a rock, abounding in riches, mighty in naval power, having lately conquered that navy which the Assyrians brought against them. Yet this city was, according to this prophecy, destroyed; and that twice, first by Nebuchadnezzar, and long afterward by Alexander the Great. And although this prophecy seem directly and properly to respect the... read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Isaiah 23:1

burden See note 1; (See Scofield " :-") . read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Isaiah 23:1-18

Now in chapter 23 he takes up his burden against Tyre. Tyre was, of course, a seaport town. It was the area... The people of Tyre were known as Phoenicians. And so you who are versed in your ancient history know of the Phoenicians and the tremendous navy that the Phoenicians possessed. They were merchants. Their ships plied the Mediterranean. In fact, they even went around the Cape Horn to bring back goods, merchandise and all. And the Phoenician navy more or less ruled the seas, and in those... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 23:1-18

Isaiah 23:1 . The burden of Tyre. This was one of the most ancient cities of Phœnicia, situate on a rock, seven hundred paces from the shore, though now joined to the land by the working of the sea. The Zidonians built and fortified Tyre for safety in time of war. It was rebuilt and improved by king Agenor, father of Cadmus. Genesis 11:4. In Joshua’s time it was called the strong city, and fell to the lot of Aser; but being deemed impregnable, no conquest was attempted. After the... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 23:1-18

Isaiah 23:1-18The burden of TyreThe prophecy against Tyre: lessonsThe Tarshish of this chapter is Spain.Chittim is the island of Cyprus. The word “merchant” is the same word that is rendered in other places “Canaanite.” The Canaanites were the most energetically commercial men of their time. To be a merchant was to be a Canaanite; to be a Canaanite was to be a merchant, substantially. I. The world must come, however slowly, to recognise the fact that RULERS THEMSELVES ARE RULED; that the Lord... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Isaiah 23:1

Isa 23:1 The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them. Ver. 1. The burden of Tyre. ] Heb., Tsor, whence came Tyre. It was the chief city of Phoenicia, the chief market of the East, a very microcosm or epitome of the whole world, for its wealth and wickedness. It was not far from Judea - our Saviour Mat 15:21 went from Galilee into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon - in whose misery... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Isaiah 23:1

am 3289, bc 715 burden: Tyre, whose destruction by Nebuchadnezzar is here foretold, was a city of Phoenicia, on the shore of the Mediterranean, twenty-four miles south of Sidon, and thirty-two north of Accho or Ptolemais, according to the Antonine and Jerusalem Itineraries, about latitude 33 degrees 18 minutes north, longitude 35 degrees 10 minutes east. There were two cities of this name; one on the continent called Pale Tyrus, or Old Tyre, according to Strabo, thirty stadia south of the... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Isaiah 23:1

The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them.Of Tyre — The prophecy of the heavy calamity and destruction of Tyre. Tyre was, according to this prophecy, destroyed; first by Nebuchadnezzar, and afterwards by Alexander the great. And tho' this prophecy seemed directly to respect the former destruction, yet it seems to have some reference to the latter also; only it is intimated,... read more