Ezekiel 27:3 - Exposition

We begin with the picture of the city, situate at the entry (Hebrew, entries ) , or harbors of the sea. Of these Tyre had two—the northern, known as the Sidonian; the southern, as the Egyptian. There she dwelt, a merchant of the peoples , that came, in the wider sense of the word (see Ezekiel 26:15 ), from the isles of the Mediterranean. I am perfect in beauty. The boast here put into the mouth of the city appears afterwards as the utterance of its ruler, or as applied to him ( Ezekiel 28:2 , Ezekiel 28:15-17 ). We are reminded of Genoa, la superba .