Ezekiel 27
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Ezekiel 27 is the twenty-seventh chapter of the Book of Ezekiel in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains the prophecies attributed to the prophet/priest Ezekiel, and is one of the Books of the Prophets. This chapter contains a lamentation for the fallen city of Tyre.[1]
Text
The original text was written in the Hebrew language. This chapter is divided into 36 verses.
Textual witnesses
Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter in Hebrew are of the Masoretic Text tradition, which includes the Codex Cairensis (895), the Petersburg Codex of the Prophets (916), Aleppo Codex (10th century), Codex Leningradensis (1008).Template:Sfn
There is also a translation into Koine Greek known as the Septuagint, made in the last few centuries BC. Extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint version include Codex Vaticanus (B; B; 4th century), Codex Alexandrinus (A; A; 5th century) and Codex Marchalianus (Q; Q; 6th century).Template:SfnTemplate:Efn
Verse 2
- "Son of man" (Hebrew: בן־אדם Template:Strong-number-Template:Strong-number): this phrase is used 93 times to address Ezekiel.Template:Sfn
- "Lamentation" (Hebrew: קינה Template:Strong-number; plural: קִינִים in Template:Bibleref2 or קִּינֽוֹת in Template:Bibleref2): the Hebrew word has a meaning of "elegy, dirge", "a mournful song",Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn a funeral song in the New Living Translation.[3]
The people of Tyre, seeing themselves as the great merchants, will have a great downfall despite their past glory.[4] A similarly worded lament for Babylon the Great appears in the New Testament in Template:Bibleref2.
Verse 3a
- and say to Tyre, which sits at the entrance to the sea, merchant of the peoples on many coastlands ...[5]
The word for "entrance" or "gateway" is literally "entries" (plural), "reference possibly being to the two harbours of Tyre, one of which was to the north east of the island, called the Sidonian harbour, because looking towards Sidon, and the other on the south or south-east of the island, the exact position of which is uncertain owing to the silting which has taken place".[6] Ancient Tyre was on an island, which is now connected to the mainland by a causeway.
See also
- Related Bible parts: Genesis 10, Joshua 13, Isaiah 23, Ezekiel 26, Revelation 18
Notes
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External links
Jewish
Christian
- ↑ Template:Bibleref2: chapter heading in the New King James Version
- ↑ Template:Bibleref2: NKJV
- ↑ Template:Bibleref2: NLT
- ↑ The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha, Augmented Third Edition, New Revised Standard Version, Indexed. Michael D. Coogan, Marc Brettler, Carol A. Newsom, Editors. Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 2007. pp. 1217-1219 Hebrew Bible. Template:ISBN
- ↑ Template:Bibleref2: NRSV
- ↑ Davidson A. B. (1893), Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges on Ezekiel 27, accessed 15 December 2019