Pilot
Pilots appear only in Ezekiel’s long lament over the sea trading city of Tyre. It is pictured as a great ship, and the people of Zidon and Arvad are named as its mariners, while its “wise men” served as its pilots. Those who steered the ship stood for the skill and pride of the whole city. When Tyre falls, the prophet says, the suburbs will shake at the cry of the pilots, and the pilots will leave their ships and stand upon the land. Read Ezekiel 27, and notice how the ship’s crew mourn.
4 verses
Ezekiel
The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise men, O Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots.
Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee, and in all thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin.
The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.
And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the land;