Isaiah 23:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations.

Isaiah 23:3 —

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1 Chronicles 13:5
So David gathered all Israel together, from Shihor of Egypt even unto the entering of Hemath, to bring the ark of God from Kirjathjearim.
Jeremiah 2:18
And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the river?
Isaiah 23:8
Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?
Ezekiel 28:4
With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:
Revelation 18:11-13
And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more: …

Topics

Commerce Nile Shihor Sihor Tarshish

Commentary

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

(vv. 1-14)

Tyre being a sea-port town, this prophecy of its overthrow fitly begins and ends with, Howl, you ships of Tarshish; for all its business, wealth, and honour, depended upon its shipping; if that be ruined, they will be all undone. Observe, I. Tyre flourishing. This is taken notice of that her fall may appear the more dismal. 1. The merchants of Zidon, who traded at sea, had at first replenished her…

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

(vv. 3)

3. great waters--the wide waters of the sea. seed--“grain,” or crop, as in 1Sa 8:15; Job 39:12. Sihor--literally, “dark-colored”; applied to the Nile, as the Egyptian Jeor, and the Greek Melas, to express the “dark, turbid” colors given to its waters by the fertilizing soil which it deposits at its yearly overflow (Jr 2:18). harvest of the river--the growth of the Delta; the produce due to the ove…