The men of Sidon and Arvad were your oarsmen. Your men of skill, O Tyre, were there as your captains.
Parallel translations
- WEB The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers: your wise men, Tyre, were in you, they were your pilots.
- KJV The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise men, O Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots.
- 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. Later the Canaanite clans were scattered,
- 1 Kgs 9:27And Hiram sent his servants, men who knew the sea, to serve in the fleet with Solomon’s servants.
- Ezek 27:11Men of Arvad and Helech manned your walls all around, and the men of Gammad were in your towers. They hung their shields around your walls; they perfected your beauty.
- Gen 49:13Zebulun shall dwell by the seashore and become a harbor for ships; his border shall extend to Sidon.
- 2 Chr 2:13–14So now I am sending you Huram-abi, a skillful man endowed with creativity.
- Isa 10:9“Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?
- Josh 11:8and the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who struck them down and pursued them all the way to Greater Sidon and Misrephoth-maim, and eastward as far as the Valley of Mizpeh. They struck them down, leaving no survivors.
- Ezek 27:28The countryside will shake when your sailors cry out.
- Gen 10:15And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,
- 1 Kgs 5:6Now therefore, order that cedars of Lebanon be cut down for me. My servants will be with your servants, and I will pay your servants whatever wages you set, for you know that there are none among us as skilled in logging as the Sidonians.”
- Jer 49:23Concerning Damascus: “Hamath and Arpad are put to shame, for they have heard a bad report; they are agitated like the sea; their anxiety cannot be calmed.
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