Ezekiel 27:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were your mariners: your wise men, O Tyre, who were in you, were your pilots.

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  • Gen 10:18 : 18 And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. And afterward the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.
  • 1 Kgs 9:27 : 27 And Hiram sent his servants, seamen who had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.
  • Ezek 27:11 : 11 The men of Arvad with your army were on your walls all around, and the Gammadims were in your towers: they hung their shields upon your walls all around; they made your beauty perfect.
  • Ezek 27:28 : 28 The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of your pilots.
  • Gen 10:15 : 15 And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,
  • 2 Chr 2:13-14 : 13 And now I have sent a skillful man, endowed with understanding, Huram my father's, 14 The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skillful to work in gold, and in silver, in bronze, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to engrave any manner of engraving, and to devise every design that shall be put to him, with your skillful men, and with the skillful men of my lord David your father.
  • Isa 10:9 : 9 Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?
  • Jer 49:23 : 23 Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded and Arpad, for they have heard bad news: they are fainthearted; there is anxiety on the sea; it cannot be still.
  • Gen 49:13 : 13 Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be a haven for ships; and his border shall be to Zidon.
  • Josh 11:8 : 8 And the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who struck them, and chased them to great Zidon, and to Misrephothmaim, and to the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and they struck them, until they left none remaining.
  • 1 Kgs 5:6 : 6 Now therefore command that they cut me cedar trees from Lebanon, and my servants will be with your servants, and I will give you hire for your servants according to all that you designate, for you know that there is none among us who can skillfully cut timber like the Sidonians.

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  • Ezek 27:9-13
    5 verses
    90%

    9The elders of Gebal and its wise men were in you, your caulkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in you to occupy your merchandise.

    10Those of Persia, Lud, and Phut were in your army, your men of war: they hung the shield and helmet in you; they set forth your beauty.

    11The men of Arvad with your army were on your walls all around, and the Gammadims were in your towers: they hung their shields upon your walls all around; they made your beauty perfect.

    12Tarshish was your merchant because of the multitude of all kinds of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in your markets.

    13Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were your merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in your market.

  • Ezek 27:2-7
    6 verses
    79%

    2Now, you son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyre;

    3And say to Tyre, O you who are situated at the entry of the sea, a merchant of the peoples for many islands, Thus says the Lord GOD; O Tyre, you have said, I am of perfect beauty.

    4Your borders are in the midst of the seas, your builders have perfected your beauty.

    5They have made all your ship boards of fir trees from Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for you.

    6From the oaks of Bashan they have made your oars; the company of the Ashurites have made your benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of Chittim.

    7Fine linen with embroidered work from Egypt was what you spread forth to be your sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was what covered you.

  • Ezek 27:32-35
    4 verses
    78%

    32And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for you, and lament over you, saying, What city is like Tyre, like the one destroyed in the midst of the sea?

    33When your wares went forth out of the seas, you filled many people; you enriched the kings of the earth with the multitude of your riches and of your merchandise.

    34In the time when you shall be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters your merchandise and all your company in the midst of you shall fall.

    35All the inhabitants of the islands shall be astonished at you, and their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in their countenance.

  • Ezek 27:22-29
    8 verses
    77%

    22The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were your merchants: they occupied in your fairs with the finest of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold.

    23Haran, Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad, were your merchants.

    24These were your merchants in all sorts of things, in blue clothes, and embroidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among your merchandise.

    25The ships of Tarshish sang of you in your market: and you were replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas.

    26Your rowers have brought you into great waters: the east wind has broken you in the midst of the seas.

    27Your riches, and your markets, your merchandise, your mariners, and your pilots, your caulkers, and the occupiers of your merchandise, and all your men of war, who are in you, and in all your company which is in the midst of you, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of your ruin.

    28The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of your pilots.

    29And all who handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the land;

  • Isa 23:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1The burden concerning Tyre. Wail, you ships of Tarshish; for it is destroyed, so there is no house, no entrance: from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them.

    2Be silent, you inhabitants of the island; you whom the merchants of Zidon, that cross over the sea, have filled.

  • Zech 9:2-3
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    2And Hamath also shall border on it; Tyre and Sidon, though they are very wise.

    3And Tyre built herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver like dust, and fine gold like the dirt of the streets.

  • Jer 25:22
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    22And all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the coastlands which are beyond the sea,

  • Isa 23:4-8
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    4Be ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea has spoken, even the strength of the sea, saying, I do not travail, nor bring forth children, neither do I rear young men, nor raise virgins.

    5As at the report concerning Egypt, so they shall be greatly pained at the report of Tyre.

    6Cross over to Tarshish; wail, you inhabitants of the island.

    7Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is from ancient days? her own feet shall carry her far away to sojourn.

    8Who has taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the honorable of the earth?

  • 1 Kgs 9:27
    72%

    27And Hiram sent his servants, seamen who had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.

  • Ezek 26:15-18
    4 verses
    70%

    15Thus says the Lord GOD to Tyre: Shall not the isles shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in your midst?

    16Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay aside their robes and put off their embroidered garments; they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon the ground and tremble every moment, and be astonished at you.

    17And they shall take up a lamentation for you, and say to you: 'How are you destroyed, that were inhabited by seafaring men, the renowned city, which was strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who caused their terror to be on all that haunt it!'

    18Now shall the isles tremble on the day of your fall; yes, the isles that are in the sea shall be troubled at your departure.

  • Ezek 27:15-16
    2 verses
    69%

    15The men of Dedan were your merchants; many islands were the merchandise of your hand: they brought you in exchange horns of ivory and ebony.

    16Syria was your merchant by reason of the multitude of your handiworks: they occupied in your markets with emeralds, purple, embroidered work, fine linen, coral, and agate.

  • Isa 23:14
    68%

    14Wail, you ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.

  • Ezek 28:12
    68%

    12Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyre, and say to him, Thus says the Lord GOD; You seal up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

  • Ps 107:23
    67%

    23They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters;

  • Ezek 26:3-4
    2 verses
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    3Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against you, as the sea causes its waves to come up.

    4And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock.

  • Jas 3:4
    66%

    4Look also at the ships, which, though they are so large and are driven by fierce winds, yet they are turned with a very small rudder wherever the pilot desires.

  • Isa 33:23
    66%

    23Your tackle is loosed; they could not strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail; then the prey of great plunder is divided, the lame take the prey.

  • Ps 48:7
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    7You break the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.

  • Acts 21:3
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    3Now when we spotted Cyprus, we left it on the left hand, and sailed to Syria, and landed at Tyre: for there the ship was to unload her cargo.

  • Ps 104:26
    65%

    26There go the ships: there is Leviathan, which You have made to play there.