The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers: your wise men, Tyre, were in you, they were your pilots.
Parallel translations
- KJV The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise men, O Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots.
- BSB The men of Sidon and Arvad were your oarsmen. Your men of skill, O Tyre, were there as your captains.
- NKJV “Inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your oarsmen; Your wise men, O Tyre, were in you; They became your pilots.
- NASB “The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers; Your wise men, Tyre, were aboard; they were your sailors.
- NLT Your oarsmen came from Sidon and Arvad; your helmsmen were skilled men from Tyre itself.
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Quick answer
Sidon and Arvad supplied her rowers, and Tyre's own wise men were her pilots. It shows the skilled crew that powered the great ship-city.
Overview
Neighboring Phoenician cities provided manpower while Tyre's own experts steered the enterprise. The image of a well-staffed ship reflects Tyre's organized dominance of the seas. Yet the most skilled pilots cannot navigate around the judgment of God, foreshadowing the helplessness of human wisdom before His will.
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- Gen 10:18the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Afterward the families of the Canaanites were spread abroad.
- 1 Kgs 9:27Hiram sent in the fleet his servants, sailors who had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.
- Ezek 27:11The men of Arvad with your army were on your walls all around, and valorous men were in your towers; they hung their shields on your walls all around; they have perfected your beauty.
- Gen 49:13“Zebulun will dwell at the haven of the sea. He will be for a haven of ships. His border will be on Sidon.
- 2 Chr 2:13–14Now I have sent a skillful man, endowed with understanding, of Huram my father’s,
- Isa 10:9Isn’t Calno like Carchemish? Isn’t Hamath like Arpad? Isn’t Samaria like Damascus?”
- Josh 11:8Yahweh delivered them into the hand of Israel, and they struck them, and chased them to great Sidon, and to Misrephoth Maim, and to the valley of Mizpah eastward. They struck them until they left them no one remaining.
- Ezek 27:28At the sound of the cry of your pilots the suburbs shall shake.
- Gen 10:15Canaan became the father of Sidon (his firstborn), Heth,
- 1 Kgs 5:6Now therefore command that cedar trees be cut for me out of Lebanon. My servants will be with your servants; and I will give you wages for your servants according to all that you say. For you know that there is nobody among us who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians.”
- Jer 49:23Of Damascus: “Hamath is confounded, and Arpad; for they have heard evil news, they are melted away: there is sorrow on the sea; it can’t be quiet.
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