Ezekiel 26:15 - Exposition

Shall not the isles , etc.? The Hebrew word is used in a wider sense, as including all settlements on the sea-coast as well as islands. So it is used of Philistia ( Isaiah 20:6 ), and of the maritime states of Asia Minor ( Daniel 11:18 ), of the east and south coasts of Arabia ( Ezekiel 27:15 ). Looking to the extent of commerce described in Ezekiel 27:1-36 ; it probably includes all the Mediterranean settlements of the Tyrians, possibly also those in the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf. The report of the fall of Tyre was to spread far and wide.