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Ezekiel 27

Ezekiel 27

Book of Ezekiel, chapter 27

Ezekiel 27 is the twenty-seventh chapter of the Book of Ezekiel in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains the prophecies attributed to the prophet/priest Ezekiel, and is one of the Books of the Prophets. This chapter contains a lamentation for the fallen city of Tyre.[1]

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Text

The original text was written in the Hebrew language. This chapter is divided into 36 verses.

Textual witnesses

The ruins of Tyre

Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter in Hebrew are of the Masoretic Text tradition, which includes the Codex Cairensis (895), the Petersburg Codex of the Prophets (916), Aleppo Codex (10th century), Codex Leningradensis (1008).[2]

There is also a translation into Koine Greek known as the Septuagint, made in the last few centuries BC. Extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint version include Codex Vaticanus (B; B; 4th century), Codex Alexandrinus (A; A; 5th century) and Codex Marchalianus (Q; Q; 6th century).[3][lower-alpha 1]

Map of Phoenician cities. Byblos is identical to Gebal.
Map of trading ports related to the Phoenicians.

Verse 2

"“Now, son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyre" (NKJV)[5]

The people of Tyre, seeing themselves as the great merchants, will have a great downfall despite their past glory.[10] A similarly worded lament for Babylon the Great appears in the New Testament in Revelation 18:11–16.

Verse 3a

and say to Tyre, which sits at the entrance to the sea, merchant of the peoples on many coastlands ...[11]

The word for "entrance" or "gateway" is literally "entries" (plural), "reference possibly being to the two harbours of Tyre, one of which was to the north east of the island, called the Sidonian harbour, because looking towards Sidon, and the other on the south or south-east of the island, the exact position of which is uncertain owing to the silting which has taken place".[12] Ancient Tyre was on an island, which is now connected to the mainland by a causeway.

See also

Notes

  1. Ezekiel is missing from the extant Codex Sinaiticus.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    Ezekiel 27:1–36: chapter heading in the New King James Version
  2. [2]
    Würthwein 1995, pp. 35–37.
  3. [3]
    Würthwein 1995, pp. 73–74.
  4. [4]
    Shepherd, Michael (2018). A Commentary on the Book of the Twelve: The Minor Prophets. Kregel Exegetical Library. Kregel Academic. p. 13. ISBN 978-0825444593.
  5. [5]
    Ezekiel 27:2: NKJV
  6. [6]
    Bromiley 1995, p. 574.
  7. [7]
    Brown, Briggs & Driver 1994 "קִינָה"
  8. [8]
    Gesenius 1979 "קִינָה"
  9. [9]
    Ezekiel 27:2: NLT
  10. [10]
    The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha, Augmented Third Edition, New Revised Standard Version, Indexed. Michael D. Coogan, Marc Brettler, Carol A. Newsom, Editors. Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 2007. pp. 1217-1219 Hebrew Bible. ISBN 978-0195288810
  11. [11]
    Ezekiel 27:3: NRSV
  12. [12]
    Davidson A. B. (1893), Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges on Ezekiel 27, accessed 15 December 2019

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