Ezekiel 27:4 KJV — MannaFest

Ezekiel 27:4

Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty.

KJV

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ASV

Thy borders are in the heart of the seas; thy builders have perfected thy beauty.

WEB

Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders perfected your beauty.

YLT

In the heart of the seas are thy borders, Thy builders have perfected thy beauty.

DBT

Thy borders are in the heart of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty.

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Ezekiel — The exile prophet — priest taken to Babylon in 597 BC, writing to a community still convinced the exile is temporary. Wheels within wheels, the glory departing, dry bones coming to life, and the city whose new name is YHWH Shammah — ‘the LORD is there.’

Author: Ezekiel, son of Buzi the priest (1:3)
Date: Dated oracles 593 BC (1:1, fifth year of Jehoiachin's exile) to 571 BC (29:17)

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Ezekiel 27:3
And 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 26:5
It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God: and it shall become a spoil to the nations.

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), which is designed to make its ruin the more lamentable. A prediction of its fall and ruin, and the confusion and consternation which all its neighbours shall thereby be put into,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

We therefore of this island must own that he who determines the bounds of men's habitations has determined well for us. (2.) It was curiously built, according as the fashion then was; and, being a city on a hill, it made a glorious show and tempted the ships that sailed by into her ports (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

The Tyrians are thought to be the first that invented the art of navigation; at least they improved it, and brought it to as great a perfection perhaps as it could be without the loadstone. [1.] They made the boards, or planks, for the hulk of the ship, of fir-trees fetched from Senir, a mount in the land of Israel, joined with Hermon, Cant. iv.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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