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Selected Verse: Isaiah 23:7 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Isa 23:7 |
Strong Concordance |
Is this your joyous [05947] city, whose antiquity [06927] is of ancient [06924] days [03117]? her own feet [07272] shall carry [02986] her afar off [07350] to sojourn [01481]. |
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King James |
Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
Is this silent ruin all that is left of your once joyous city (Isa 23:12)?
antiquity--The Tyrian priests boasted in HERODOTUS' time that their city had already existed 2300 years: an exaggeration, but still implying that it was ancient even then.
her own feet--walking on foot as captives to an enemy's land. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Is this your joyous city - Is this the city that was just now so full of happiness, of revelry, of business, of gaiety, of rejoicing? (see the note at Isa 22:2)
Whose antiquity is of ancient days - Strabo (xvi. 756) says, 'After Sidon, Tyre, a splendid and most ancient city, is to be compared in greatness, beauty, and antiquity, with Sidon.' Curtius (Hist. Alex. iv. 4) says, 'The city was taken, distinguished both by its antiquity, and its great variety of fortune.' Arrian (ii. 16) says, that 'the Temple of Hercules at Tyre was the most ancient of those which the memory of people have preserved.' And Herodotus (ii. 44) says, that in a conversation which he had with the priest of that temple, he informed him that it had then existed for 2300 years. Josephus, indeed, says (Ant. viii. 3. 1) that Tyre was built but 240 years before the temple was built by Solomon - but this was probably a mistake. Justin (xviii. 3) says that Tyre was founded in the year of the destruction of Troy. Its very high antiquity cannot be doubted.
Her own feet shall carry her afar off - Grotius supposes that by feet here, the 'feet of ships' are intended, that is, their sails and oars. But the expression is designed evidently to stand in contrast with Isa 23:6, and to denote that a part of the inhabitants would go by land into captivity. Probably many of them were taken prisoners by Nebuchadnezzar; and perhaps many of them, when the city was besieged, found opportunity to escape and flee by land to a distant place of safety. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Antiquity - Being built before Joshua's time, Jos 19:29. Her feet - Whereas before, like a delicate lady, she would not set her foot to the ground, but used to be carried in stately chariots. To sojourn - To seek for new habitations. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Whose antiquity is of ancient days "Whose antiquity is of the earliest date" - Justin, in the passage above quoted, had dated the building of Tyre at a certain number of years before the taking of Troy; but the number is lost in the present copies. Tyre, though not so old as Sidon, was yet of very high antiquity: it was a strong city even in the time of Joshua. It is called עיר מבצר צר ir mibtsar tsor, "the city of the fortress of Sor," Jos 19:29. Interpreters raise difficulties in regard to this passage, and will not allow it to have been so ancient; with what good reason I do not see, for it is called by the same name, "the fortress of Sor," in the history of David, Sa2 24:7, and the circumstances of the history determine the place to be the very same. See on Isa 23:1 (note).
Whose antiquity is of ancient days, may refer to Palaetyrus, or Old Tyre.
Her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn - This may belong to the new or insular Tyre; her own feet, that is, her own inhabitants, shall carry her - shall transport the city, from the continent to the island. "But the text says it shall be carried far off, and the new city was founded only half a mile distant from the other." I answer, מרחוק merachok does not always signify a great distance, but distance or interval in general; for in Jos 3:4 רחוק rachok is used to express the space between the camp and the ark, which we know to have been only two thousand cubits. Some refer the sojourning afar off to the extent of the commercial voyages undertaken by the Tyrians and their foreign connections. |
12 And he said [0559], Thou shalt no more [03254] rejoice [05937], O thou oppressed [06231] virgin [01330], daughter [01323] of Zidon [06721]: arise [06965], pass over [05674] to Chittim [03794]; there also shalt thou have no rest [05117].
6 Pass ye over [05674] to Tarshish [08659]; howl [03213], ye inhabitants [03427] of the isle [0339].
2 Thou that art full [04392] of stirs [08663], a tumultuous [01993] city [05892], a joyous [05947] city [07151]: thy slain [02491] men are not slain [02491] with the sword [02719], nor dead [04191] in battle [04421].
29 And then the coast [01366] turneth [07725] to Ramah [07414], and to the strong [04013] city [05892] Tyre [06865]; and the coast [01366] turneth [07725] to Hosah [02621]; and the outgoings [08444] thereof are at the sea [03220] from the coast [02256] to Achzib [0392]:
4 Yet there shall be a space [07350] between you and it, about two thousand [0505] cubits [0520] by measure [04060]: come not near [07126] unto it, that ye may know [03045] the way [01870] by which ye must go [03212]: for ye have not passed [05674] this way [01870] heretofore [08543] [08032].
1 The burden [04853] of Tyre [06865]. Howl [03213], ye ships [0591] of Tarshish [08659]; for it is laid waste [07703], so that there is no house [01004], no entering in [0935]: from the land [0776] of Chittim [03794] it is revealed [01540] to them.
7 And came [0935] to the strong hold [04013] of Tyre [06865], and to all the cities [05892] of the Hivites [02340], and of the Canaanites [03669]: and they went out [03318] to the south [05045] of Judah [03063], even to Beersheba [0884].
29 And then the coast [01366] turneth [07725] to Ramah [07414], and to the strong [04013] city [05892] Tyre [06865]; and the coast [01366] turneth [07725] to Hosah [02621]; and the outgoings [08444] thereof are at the sea [03220] from the coast [02256] to Achzib [0392]: