Ezekiel 27:8

World English Bible (2000)

The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers: your wise men, Tyre, were in you, they were your pilots.

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  • Gen 10:18 : 18 the Arvadite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. Afterward the families of the Canaanites were spread abroad.
  • 1 Kgs 9:27 : 27 Hiram sent in the navy his servants, sailors 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 valorous men were in your towers; they hanged their shields on your walls all around; they have perfected your beauty.
  • Ezek 27:28 : 28 At the sound of the cry of your pilots the suburbs shall shake.
  • Gen 10:15 : 15 Canaan became the father of Sidon (his firstborn), Heth,
  • 2 Chr 2:13-14 : 13 Now I have sent a skillful man, endowed with understanding, of 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 brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson, also to engrave any kind of engraving, and to devise any device; that there may be a place appointed to him with your skillful men, and with the skillful men of my lord David your father.
  • Isa 10:9 : 9 Isn't Calno like Carchemish? Isn't Hamath like Arpad? Isn't Samaria like Damascus?"
  • Jer 49:23 : 23 Of Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad; for they have heard evil news, they are melted away: there is sorrow on the sea; it can't be quiet.
  • Gen 49:13 : 13 "Zebulun will dwell at the haven of the sea. He will be for a haven of ships. His border will be on Sidon.
  • Josh 11:8 : 8 Yahweh delivered them into the hand of Israel, and they struck them, and chased them to great Sidon, and to Misrephoth Maim, and to the valley of Mizpeh eastward. They struck them until they left them none remaining.
  • 1 Kgs 5:6 : 6 Now therefore command that they cut me cedar trees out of Lebanon. My servants shall be with your servants; and I will give you wages for your servants according to all that you shall say. For you know that there is not among us any who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians."

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ezek 27:9-13
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    90%

    9The old men of Gebal and the wise men of it were in you your repairers of ship seams: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in you to deal in your merchandise.

    10Persia and Lud and Put were in your army, your men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in you; they set forth your comeliness.

    11The men of Arvad with your army were on your walls all around, and valorous men were in your towers; they hanged their shields on your walls all around; they have perfected your beauty.

    12Tarshish was your merchant by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded for your wares.

    13Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were your traffickers; they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass for your merchandise.

  • Ezek 27:2-7
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    2You, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre;

    3and tell Tyre, you who dwell at the entry of the sea, who are the merchant of the peoples to many islands, thus says the Lord Yahweh: You, Tyre, have said, I am perfect in beauty.

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

    5They have made all your planks of fir trees from Senir; they have taken a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.

    6Of the oaks of Bashan have they made your oars; they have made your benches of ivory inlaid in boxwood, from the islands of Kittim.

    7Of fine linen with embroidered work from Egypt was your sail, that it might be to you for a banner; blue and purple from the islands of Elishah was your awning.

  • Ezek 27:32-35
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    32In their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for you, and lament over you, [saying], Who is there like Tyre, like her who is brought to silence in the midst of the sea?

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

    34In the time that you were broken by the seas in the depths of the waters, your merchandise and all your company did fall in the midst of you.

    35All the inhabitants of the islands are astonished at you, and their kings are horribly afraid; they are troubled in their face.

  • Ezek 27:22-29
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    22The traffickers of Sheba and Raamah, they were your traffickers; they traded for your wares with the chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold.

    23Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traffickers of Sheba, Asshur [and] Chilmad, were your traffickers.

    24These were your traffickers in choice wares, in wrappings of blue and embroidered work, and in chests of rich clothing, bound with cords and made of cedar, among your merchandise.

    25The ships of Tarshish were your caravans for your merchandise: and you were replenished, and made very glorious in the heart of the seas.

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

    27Your riches, and your wares, your merchandise, your mariners, and your pilots, your repairers of ship seams, and the dealers in your merchandise, and all your men of war, who are in you, with all your company which is in the midst of you, shall fall into the heart of the seas in the day of your ruin.

    28At the sound of the cry of your pilots the suburbs shall shake.

    29All who handled the oar, the mariners, [and] all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships; they shall stand on the land,

  • Isa 23:1-2
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    1The burden of Tyre. Howl, you ships of Tarshish! For it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in. From the land of Kittim it is revealed to them.

    2Be still, you inhabitants of the coast, you whom the merchants of Sidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.

  • Zech 9:2-3
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    2and Hamath, also, which borders on it; Tyre and Sidon, because they are very wise.

    3Tyre built herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver like the dust, and fine gold like the mire 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 isle which is beyond the sea;

  • Isa 23:4-8
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    4Be ashamed, Sidon; for the sea has spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying, "I have not travailed, nor brought forth, neither have I nourished young men, nor brought up virgins."

    5When the report comes to Egypt, they will be in anguish at the report of Tyre.

    6Pass over to Tarshish! Wail, you inhabitants of the coast!

    7Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days, whose feet carried her far away to travel?

    8Who has planned this against Tyre, the giver of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honorable of the earth?

  • 1 Kgs 9:27
    72%

    27Hiram sent in the navy his servants, sailors who had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.

  • Ezek 26:15-18
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    15Thus says the Lord Yahweh to Tyre: shall not the islands shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, when the slaughter is made in the midst of you?

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

    17They shall take up a lamentation over you, and tell you, How you are destroyed, who were inhabited by seafaring men, the renowned city, who was strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who caused their terror to be on all who lived there!

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

  • Ezek 27:15-16
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    15The men of Dedan were your traffickers; many islands were the market 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 traded for your wares with emeralds, purple, and embroidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and rubies.

  • Isa 23:14
    68%

    14Howl, you ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is laid waste!

  • Ezek 28:12
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    12Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and tell him, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You seal up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

  • Ps 107:23
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    23Those who go down to the sea in ships, who do business in great waters;

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

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

  • Jas 3:4
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    4Behold, the ships also, though they are so big and are driven by fierce winds, are yet guided by a very small rudder, wherever the pilot desires.

  • Isa 33:23
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    23Your rigging is untied. They couldn't strengthen the foot of their mast. They couldn't spread the sail. Then the prey of a great spoil was divided. The lame took the prey.

  • Ps 48:7
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    7With the east wind, you break the ships of Tarshish.

  • Acts 21:3
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    3When we had come in sight of Cyprus, leaving it on the left hand, we sailed to Syria, and landed at Tyre, for there the ship was to unload her cargo.

  • Ps 104:26
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    26There the ships go, and leviathan, whom you formed to play there.