Ezekiel 27:8 - Exposition

The two cities are named as tributaries of Tyro from which she drew her sailors, the Tyrians themselves acting as captains and pilots. Zidon (now Saida ) is named in Genesis 10:15 as the firstborn of Canaan, and was older than Tyre itself ( Isaiah 23:2 , Isaiah 23:12 ). Arvad is identified with the Greek Aradus, the modern Ruad, an island about two miles from the coast, about two miles north of the mouth of the river Eleutheros ( Nahr-el-Kebir ). It is scarcely a mile in circumference, but was prominent enough to be named here and in Genesis 10:18 ; 1 Chronicles 1:16 . Opposite to it on the mainland was the town of Antaradus. For mariners , the Revised Version gives rowers .