Ezekiel 27:8

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The leaders of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers; your skilled men, O Tyre, were your captains.

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  • Gen 10:18 : 18 Arvadites, Zemarites, and Hamathites. Eventually the families of the Canaanites were scattered
  • 1 Kgs 9:27 : 27 Hiram sent his fleet and some of his sailors, who were well acquainted with the sea, to serve with Solomon’s men.
  • Ezek 27:11 : 11 The Arvadites joined your army on your walls all around, and the Gammadites were in your towers. They hung their quivers on your walls all around; they perfected your beauty.
  • Ezek 27:28 : 28 At the sound of your captains’ cry the waves will surge;
  • Gen 10:15 : 15 Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, Heth,
  • 2 Chr 2:13-14 : 13 Now I am sending you Huram Abi, a skilled and capable man, 14 whose mother is a Danite and whose father is a Tyrian. He knows how to work with gold, silver, bronze, iron, stones, and wood, as well as purple, blue, white, and crimson fabrics. He knows how to do all kinds of engraving and understands any design given to him. He will work with your skilled craftsmen and the skilled craftsmen of my lord David your father.
  • Isa 10:9 : 9 Is not Calneh like Carchemish? Hamath like Arpad? Samaria like Damascus?
  • Jer 49:23 : 23 Judgment Against Damascus The LORD spoke about Damascus.“The people of Hamath and Arpad will be dismayed because they have heard bad news. Their courage will melt away because of worry. Their hearts will not be able to rest.
  • Gen 49:13 : 13 Zebulun will live by the haven of the sea and become a haven for ships; his border will extend to Sidon.
  • Josh 11:8 : 8 The LORD handed them over to Israel and they struck them down and chased them all the way to Greater Sidon, Misrephoth Maim, and the Mizpah Valley to the east. They struck them down until no survivors remained.
  • 1 Kgs 5:6 : 6 So now order some cedars of Lebanon to be cut for me. My servants will work with your servants. I will pay your servants whatever you say is appropriate, for you know that we have no one among us who knows how to cut down trees like the Sidonians.”

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  • Ezek 27:9-13
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    9The elders of Gebal and her skilled men were within you, mending cracks; all the ships of the sea and their mariners were within you to trade for your merchandise.

    10Men of Persia, Lud, and Put were in your army, men of war. They hung shield and helmet on you; they gave you your splendor.

    11The Arvadites joined your army on your walls all around, and the Gammadites were in your towers. They hung their quivers on your walls all around; they perfected your beauty.

    12“‘Tarshish was your trade partner because of your abundant wealth; they exchanged silver, iron, tin, and lead for your products.

    13Javan, Tubal, and Meshech were your clients; they exchanged slaves and bronze items for your merchandise.

  • Ezek 27:2-7
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    79%

    2“You, son of man, sing a lament for Tyre.

    3Say to Tyre, who sits at the entrance of the sea, merchant to the peoples on many coasts,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says:“‘O Tyre, you have said,“I am perfectly beautiful.”

    4Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders have perfected your beauty.

    5They crafted all your planks out of fir trees from Senir; they took a cedar from Lebanon to make your mast.

    6They made your oars from oaks of Bashan; they made your deck with cypress wood from the coasts of Cyprus.

    7Fine linen from Egypt, woven with patterns, was used for your sail to serve as your banner; blue and purple from the coastlands of Elishah was used for your deck’s awning.

  • Ezek 27:32-35
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    32As they wail they will lament over you, chanting:“Who was like Tyre, like a tower in the midst of the sea?”

    33When your products went out from the seas, you satisfied many peoples; with the abundance of your wealth and merchandise you enriched the kings of the earth.

    34Now you are wrecked by the seas, in the depths of the waters; your merchandise and all your company have sunk along with you.

    35All the inhabitants of the coastlands are shocked at you, and their kings are horribly afraid– their faces are troubled.

  • Ezek 27:22-29
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    22The merchants of Sheba and Raamah engaged in trade with you; they traded the best kinds of spices along with precious stones and gold for your products.

    23Haran, Kanneh, Eden, merchants from Sheba, Asshur, and Kilmad were your clients.

    24They traded with you choice garments, purple clothes and embroidered work, and multicolored carpets, bound and reinforced with cords; these were among your merchandise.

    25The ships of Tarshish were the transports for your merchandise.“‘So you were filled and weighed down in the heart of the seas.

    26Your rowers have brought you into surging waters. The east wind has wrecked you in the heart of the seas.

    27Your wealth, products, and merchandise, your sailors and captains, your ship’s carpenters, your merchants, and all your fighting men within you, along with all your crew who are in you, will fall into the heart of the seas on the day of your downfall.

    28At the sound of your captains’ cry the waves will surge;

    29They will descend from their ships– all who handle the oar, the sailors and all the sea captains– they will stand on the land.

  • Isa 23:1-2
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    1The Lord Will Judge Tyre This is an oracle about Tyre: Wail, you large ships, for the port is too devastated to enter! From the land of Cyprus this news is announced to them.

    2Lament, you residents of the coast, you merchants of Sidon who travel over the sea, whose agents sail over

  • Zech 9:2-3
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    74%

    2as are those of Hamath also, which adjoins Damascus, and Tyre and Sidon, though they consider themselves to be very wise.

    3Tyre built herself a fortification and piled up silver like dust and gold like the mud of the streets!

  • Jer 25:22
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    22all the kings of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon; all the kings of the coastlands along the sea;

  • Isa 23:4-8
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    4Be ashamed, O Sidon, for the sea says this, O fortress of the sea:“I have not gone into labor or given birth; I have not raised young men or brought up young women.”

    5When the news reaches Egypt, they will be shaken by what has happened to Tyre.

    6Travel to Tarshish! Wail, you residents of the coast!

    7Is this really your boisterous city whose origins are in the distant past, and whose feet led her to a distant land to reside?

    8Who planned this for royal Tyre, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the dignitaries of the earth?

  • 1 Kgs 9:27
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    27Hiram sent his fleet and some of his sailors, who were well acquainted with the sea, to serve with Solomon’s men.

  • Ezek 26:15-18
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    15“This is what the Sovereign LORD says to Tyre: Oh, how the coastlands will shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, at the massive slaughter in your midst!

    16All the princes of the sea will vacate their thrones. They will remove their robes and strip off their embroidered clothes; they will clothe themselves with trembling. They will sit on the ground; they will tremble continually and be shocked at what has happened to you.

    17They will sing this lament over you:“‘How you have perished– you have vanished from the seas, O renowned city, once mighty in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who spread their terror!

    18Now the coastlands will tremble on the day of your fall; the coastlands by the sea will be terrified by your passing.’

  • Ezek 27:15-16
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    15The Dedanites were your clients. Many coastlands were your customers; they paid you with ivory tusks and ebony.

    16Edom was your trade partner because of the abundance of your goods; they exchanged turquoise, purple, embroidered work, fine linen, coral, and rubies for your products.

  • Isa 23:14
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    14Wail, you large ships, for your fortress is destroyed!

  • Ezek 28:12
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    12“Son of man, sing a lament for the king of Tyre, and say to him,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says:“‘You were the sealer of perfection, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

  • Ps 107:23
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    23Some traveled on the sea in ships, and carried cargo over the vast waters.

  • Ezek 26:3-4
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    3therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Look, I am against you, O Tyre! I will bring up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.

    4They will destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers. I will scrape her soil from her and make her a bare rock.

  • Jas 3:4
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    4Look at ships too: Though they are so large and driven by harsh winds, they are steered by a tiny rudder wherever the pilot’s inclination directs.

  • Isa 33:23
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    23Though at this time your ropes are slack, the mast is not secured, and the sail is not unfurled, at that time you will divide up a great quantity of loot; even the lame will drag off plunder.

  • Ps 48:7
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    7With an east wind you shatter the large ships.

  • Acts 21:3
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    3After we sighted Cyprus and left it behind on our port side, we sailed on to Syria and put in at Tyre, because the ship was to unload its cargo there.

  • Ps 104:26
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    26The ships travel there, and over here swims the whale you made to play in it.