FOOTNOTE Ezekiel 26:2.
Tyrus is the name of Tyre, a Phoenician kingdom of antiquity an island off the south western coast of Lebanon from which Hiram had sent his fleet of ships for David and Solomon. In later times it had resisted Nineveh, gained autonomy, and for a time repulsed the Chaldean armies of Babylon. Later it became a dependent state of Babylonia. Its Persian successors to power then used Tyre’s naval strength to aid its conquest of the east.
Finally, when Tyre repelled Alexander the Great’s empire, his Greek forces built a causeway by which he was able to eventually storm the city and break its power, so aptly described by Ezekiel in following chapters. The contempt of Tyrus for Jerusalem’s demise and imminent predicament would bring upon it the vengeance of God for gloating over the fate of Judah.
FOOTNOTE. Ezekiel 27: 13-23.
The names mentioned show the immense influence of this pivotal sea port on the Mediterranean dating back to primeval period of history. Tyre’s opulence and magnificent seafaring vessels together with its key location made it a very rich trading city. And the envy of many a nation.
*NOTES on the King James Version of the Bible (1611).
KJV is public domain (ex biblegateway.com).
Notes, headings and sub headings, & footnotes by John David.
The King James Version was the last of the six Puritan printed Bibles of the Reformation in the 16th & 17th century based on the Greek Text of Erasmus and published in Britain, France, Germany, and Geneva when translators and publishers had to flee for their lives.
Due to the Enlightenment of the 18th Century and its damning effects all subsequent modern English versions since the 19th C, translators have rejected the work of Erasmus and used instead the sub-standard 19th C Greek text of Westcott & Hort. Thus subtle Roman scholarship effectively muted the authoritative voice of the Puritan Reformation and Protestantism itself.
