and the kings of Tyre and Sidon, and the kings of the regions across the sea.
Parallel translations
- WEB and all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the isle which is beyond the sea;
- KJV And all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the isles which are beyond the sea,
- BSB all the kings of Tyre and Sidon; the kings of the coastlands across the sea;
- NKJV all the kings of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the coastlands which are across the sea;
- NASB and to all the kings of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the coastlands which are beyond the sea;
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Quick answer
The kings of Tyre and Sidon and the coastlands beyond the sea must drink. The wealthy Phoenician trading cities are not spared.
Overview
Tyre and Sidon, renowned maritime powers, and distant coastal kingdoms are summoned to the cup. Their commercial might offers no immunity from divine judgment. The reach across the sea underscores that God's righteous rule extends to the farthest peoples of the earth.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- Jer 47:4because of the day that comes to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper who remains; for Yahweh will destroy the Philistines, the remnant of the isle of Caphtor.
- Zech 9:1–4A revelation. Yahweh’s word is against the land of Hadrach, and will rest upon Damascus; for the eye of man and of all the tribes of Israel is toward Yahweh;
- Ezek 26:1–21In the eleventh year, in the first of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
- Joel 3:4–8“Yes, and what are you to me, Tyre, and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Will you repay me? And if you repay me, I will swiftly and speedily return your repayment on your own head.
- Ezek 29:18Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was worn; yet had he no wages, nor his army, from Tyre, for the service that he had served against it.
- Amos 1:9–10Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Tyre, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they delivered up the whole community to Edom, and didn’t remember the brotherly covenant;
- Ezek 28:22–23and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, Sidon; and I will be glorified among you; and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her.
- Jer 49:23–27Of 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.
- Jer 31:10“Hear Yahweh’s word, you nations, and declare it in the islands afar off; and say, ‘He who scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd does his flock.’
- Ezek 32:30There are the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Sidonians, who are gone down with the slain; in the terror which they caused by their might they are put to shame; and they lie uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sword, and bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.
- Amos 1:3–5Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Damascus, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron;
- Jer 27:3Then send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messengers who come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah.
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