Ezekiel 27:8

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Summary

Ezekiel 27:8

The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise men, O Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots.

Arvad

Wise

Bible References

Arvad

The sons of Arvad, and thy force, Are on thy walls round about, And short swordsmen in thy towers have been, Their shields they have hung up on thy walls round about, They -- they have perfected thy beauty.

and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite; and afterwards have the families of the Canaanite been scattered.

Is not Calno as Carchemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus?

Concerning Damascus: Ashamed hath been Hamath and Arpad, For an evil report they have heard, They have been melted, in the sea is sorrow, To be quiet it is not able.

Wise

At the voice of the cry of thy pilots shake do the suburbs.

'And now, command, and they cut down for me cedars out of Lebanon, and my servants are with thy servants, and the hire of thy servants I give to thee according to all that thou sayest, for thou hast known that there is not among us a man acquainted with cutting wood, like the Sidonians.'

And Hiram sendeth in the navy his servants, shipmen knowing the sea, with servants of Solomon,

'And now, I have sent a wise man having understanding, of Huram my father,