Ezekiel 27:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty.

Ezekiel 27:3 —

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Ezekiel 27:4
Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty.
Ezekiel 27:10-36
They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy comeliness. …
Isaiah 23:2-3
Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished. …
Isaiah 23:8-9
Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth? …
Isaiah 23:11
He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the LORD hath given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy the strong holds thereof.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-25)

Here, I. The prophet is ordered to take up a lamentation for Tyrus, Ezek. 27:2. It was yet in the height of its prosperity, and there appeared not the least symptom of its decay; yet the prophet must lament it, because its prosperity is its snare, is the cause of its pride and security, which will make its fall the more grievous. Even those that live at ease are to be lamented if they be not prepa…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 3)

3. situate at the entry of the sea--literally, plural, “entrances,” that is, ports or havens; referring to the double port of Tyre, at which vessels entered round the north and south ends of the island, so that ships could find a ready entrance from whatever point the wind might blow (compare Eze 28:2). merchant of ... people for many isles--that is, a mercantile emporium of the peoples of many se…