Study Resources
Browse multiple public-domain commentaries and scripture.how Korean translations by book and chapter. Switch between commentary sources, read the translation alone, or compare it side by side with the original text.
Active commentary
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown · 1871
Total entries
19,831
19,831 translated
Each commentary source keeps its original work, author, translation progress, and license information separate. Korean translations and editorial work by scripture.how are managed apart from the source text.
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown · 1871
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871). CCEL expanded electronic edition states it is in the public domain.
Ezekiel Chapter 27 1 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Ezekiel Chapter 27 2 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
2. lamentation--a funeral dirge, eulogizing her great attributes, to make the contrast the greater between her former and her latter state.
Ezekiel Chapter 27 3 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
3. situate at the entry of the sea--literally, plural, "entrances," that is, ports or havens; referring to the double port of Tyre, at which vessels entered round the north and south ends of the island, so that ships could find a ready entrance from whatever point the wind might blow (compare
Eze 28:2).
merchant of . . . people for many isles--that is, a mercantile emporium of the peoples of many seacoasts, both from the east and from the west
(Isa 23:3),
"a mart of nations."
of perfect beauty--
(Eze 28:12).
Ezekiel Chapter 27 4 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
4. Tyre, in consonance with her seagirt position, separated by a strait of half a mile from the mainland, is described as a ship built of the best material, and manned with the best mariners and skilful pilots, but at last wrecked in tempestuous seas
(Eze 27:26).
Ezekiel Chapter 27 5 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
5. Senir--the Amorite name of Hermon, or the southern height of Anti-libanus
(De 3:9);
the Sidonian name was Sirion. "All thy . . . boards"; dual in Hebrew, "double-boards," namely, placed in a double order on the two sides of which the ship consisted [VATABLUS]. Or, referring to the two sides or the two ends, the prow and the stern, which every ship has [MUNSTER].
cedars--most suited for "masts," from their height and durability.
Ezekiel Chapter 27 6 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
6. Bashan--celebrated for its oaks, as Lebanon was for its cedars.
the company of . . . Ashurites--the most skilful workmen summoned from Assyria. Rather, as the Hebrew orthography requires, "They have made thy (rowing) benches of ivory inlaid in the daughter of cedars" [MAURER], or, the best boxwood. FAIRBAIRN, with BOCHART, reads the Hebrew two words as one: "Thy plankwork (deck: instead of 'benches,' as the Hebrew is singular) they made ivory with boxes." English Version, with MAURER'S correction, is simpler.
Chittim--Cyprus and Macedonia, from which, PLINY tells us, the best boxwood came [GROTIUS].
Ezekiel Chapter 27 7 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
7. broidered . . . sail--The ancients embroidered their sails often at great expense, especially the Egyptians, whose linen, still preserved in mummies, is of the finest texture.
Elishah--Greece; so called from Elis, a large and ancient division of Peloponnesus. PAUSANIAS says that the best of linen was produced in it, and in no other part of Greece; called by HOMER, Alisium.
that which covered thee--thy awning.
Ezekiel Chapter 27 8 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
8. Arvad--a small island and city near Phœnicia, now Ruad: its inhabitants are still noted for seafaring habits.
thy wise men, O Tyrus . . . thy pilots--While the men of Arvad, once thy equals
(Ge 10:18),
and the Sidonians, once thy superiors, were employed by thee in subordinate positions as "mariners," thou madest thine own skilled men alone to be commanders and pilots. Implying the political and mercantile superiority of Tyre.
Eze 27:1-36.
TYRE'S FORMER GREATNESS, SUGGESTING A LAMENTATION OVER HER SAD DOWNFALL.