The Phoenicians
Isaiah 23:1-18
The burden of Tyre. Howl, you ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in…


were simply carriers and middle men. In all time there is no instance of a nation so wholly given over to buying and selling, who frequented even the battlefields of the world that they might strip the dead and purchase the captive.

(Prof. G. A. Smith, D. D.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them.

WEB: The burden of Tyre. Howl, you ships of Tarshish! For it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in. From the land of Kittim it is revealed to them.




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