Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 23:2

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2. Be still —"struck dumb with awe." Addressed to those already in the country, eye-witnesses of its ruin ( :- ); or, in contrast to the busy din of commerce once heard in Tyre; now all is hushed and still. isle —strictly applicable to New Tyre: in the sense coast, to the mainland city, Old Tyre (compare Isaiah 23:6 ; Isaiah 20:6 ). Zidon —of which Tyre was a colony, planted when Zidon was conquered by the Philistines of Ascalon. Zidon means a "fishing station"; this was its beginning. replenished —with wealth and an industrious population ( Ezekiel 27:3 ; Ezekiel 27:8 ; Ezekiel 27:23 ). Here "Zidon," as the oldest city of Phoelignicia, includes all the Phoelignician towns on the strip of "coast." Thus, Eth-baal, king of Tyre [JOSEPHUS, Antiquities, 8.3,2], is called king of the Sidonians ( Ezekiel 27:23- : ); and on coins Tyre is called the metropolis of the Sidonians. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-3" class="com-number"

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