2. Be still--"struck dumb with awe." Addressed to those already in
the country, eye-witnesses of its ruin
(La 2:10);
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
Isa 23:6;
Isa 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
(Eze 27:3, 8, 23).
Here "Zidon," as the oldest city of Phœnicia, includes all the
Phœnician towns on the strip of "coast." Thus, Eth-baal, king of
Tyre [JOSEPHUS, Antiquities, 8.3,2], is
called king of the Sidonians
(1Ki 16:31);
and on coins Tyre is called the metropolis of the Sidonians.
JFB.
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