Holy Scripture

Ezekiel 27:8

A church father on this verse
“(Verse 27, 29 onwards) Therefore speak to the house of Israel, son of man, and tell them: Thus says the Lord God: Moreover, your fathers have blasphemed against me and have treated me with contempt, even as they spurned me. And I brought them into the land that I had lifted my hand to give them ((Vulgate adds: that la…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Ezekiel

Source: Septuagint

Original

8And thy princes were the dwellers in Sidon, and the Arvadites were thy rowers: thy wise men, O Tyre, who were in thee, these were thy pilots.

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In context

6They made thine oars of wood out of the land of Bashan; thy sacred utensils they made of ivory, thy shady houses of wood from the isles of Kittim.

7Fine linen with embroidery from Egypt supplied thy couch, to put honor upon thee, and to clothe thee with blue and purple from the isles of Elishah; and they became thy coverings.

— Ezekiel 27:8 —

9The elders of the Gebalians, and their wise men, who were in thee, these helped thy counsel: and all the ships of the sea and their rowers traded for thee to the utmost west.

10Persians and Lydians and Libyans were in thine army: thy warriors hung in thee shields and helmets; these gave thee thy glory.

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