Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 23

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Isaiah 23 . 1 , The miserable overthrow of Tyre; Isaiah 23 . 15 , Her restoration and whoredoms.

Isaiah 23:1

This is the burden against Tyre: Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for Tyre is laid waste, without house or harbor. Word has reached them from the land of Cyprus.

Isaiah 23:1 · BSB

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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 other , which was situated on an island , not above 700 paces from the main land , says Pliny. Old Tyre was taken by Nebuchadnezzar , after a siege of thirteen years , bc 573 , which he so utterly destroyed , that it never afterwards rose higher than a village. But previous to this , the inhabitants had removed their effects to the island which afterwards became so famous by the name of Tyre , though now consisting only of about 800 dwellings

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am 3289 , bc 715

Isaiah 23:2

Be silent, O dwellers of the coastland, you merchants of Sidon, whose traders have crossed the sea.

Isaiah 23:2 · BSB

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Heb. silent

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Isaiah 23:3

On the great waters came the grain of Shihor; the harvest of the Nile was the revenue of Tyre; she was the merchant of the nations.

Isaiah 23:3 · BSB

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Isaiah 23:4

Be ashamed, O Sidon, the stronghold of the sea, for the sea has spoken: “I have not been in labor or given birth. I have not raised young men or brought up young women.”

Isaiah 23:4 · BSB

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Isaiah 23:5

When the report reaches Egypt, they will writhe in agony over the news of Tyre.

Isaiah 23:5 · BSB

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Isaiah 23:6

Cross over to Tarshish; wail, O inhabitants of the coastland!

Isaiah 23:6 · BSB

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Isaiah 23:7

Is this your jubilant city, whose origin is from antiquity, whose feet have taken her to settle far away?

Isaiah 23:7 · BSB

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afar off Heb. from afar off

Isaiah 23:8

Who planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose traders are princes, whose merchants are renowned on the earth?

Isaiah 23:8 · BSB

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Isaiah 23:9

The LORD of Hosts planned it, to defile all its glorious beauty, to disgrace all the renowned of the earth.

Isaiah 23:9 · BSB

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Heb. to pollute

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Isaiah 23:10

Cultivate your land like the Nile, O Daughter of Tarshish; there is no longer a harbor.

Isaiah 23:10 · BSB

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Heb. girdle

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Isaiah 23:11

The LORD has stretched out His hand over the sea; He has made kingdoms tremble. He has given a command that the strongholds of Canaan be destroyed.

Isaiah 23:11 · BSB

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or , concerning a merchantman

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Heb. Canaan

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or , strengths

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Isaiah 23:12

He said, “You shall rejoice no more, O oppressed Virgin Daughter of Sidon. Get up and cross over to Cyprus—even there you will find no rest.”

Isaiah 23:12 · BSB

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"The Sidonians ," says Justin , "when their city was taken by the king of Ascalon , betook themselves to their ships; and landed and built Tyre;" Sidon was therefore the mother city

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Isaiah 23:13

Look at the land of the Chaldeans—a people now of no account. The Assyrians destined it for the desert creatures; they set up their siege towers and stripped its palaces. They brought it to ruin.

Isaiah 23:13 · BSB

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Isaiah 23:14

Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for your harbor has been destroyed!

Isaiah 23:14 · BSB

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Isaiah 23:15

At that time Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years—the span of a king’s life. But at the end of seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the harlot:

Isaiah 23:15 · BSB

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Heb. it shall be unto Tyre as the song of an harlot

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Isaiah 23:16

“Take up your harp, stroll through the city, O forgotten harlot. Make sweet melody, sing many a song, so you will be remembered.”

Isaiah 23:16 · BSB

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Proverbs 7 . 10-12

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Isaiah 23:17

And at the end of seventy years, the LORD will restore Tyre. Then she will return to hire as a prostitute and sell herself to all the kingdoms on the face of the earth.

Isaiah 23:17 · BSB

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Isaiah 23:18

Yet her profits and wages will be set apart to the LORD; they will not be stored or saved, for her profit will go to those who live before the LORD, for abundant food and fine clothing.

Isaiah 23:18 · BSB

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durable Heb. old

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Allusions Isaiah 23:17 → Deuteronomy 23:18, Isaiah 23:17-18 → Deuteronomy 23:18
Chiasms
Shaped Isaiah 23:1–18
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