Ezekiel 27:6

"They have made all your planks of cypress trees from Senir. They have taken a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you."

Key Reflection

These verses describe the luxurious construction materials used in building a great ship, likely for Tyre, a powerful city-state in ancient Phoenicia. The use of cypress trees from Senir (a mountain range in Syria) and cedar wood from Lebanon indicates the wealth and status of this vessel, as both cypress and cedar were highly valued timbers. For the original audience, these details would have conveyed the ship's grandeur and the prosperity of Tyre, making it a symbol of maritime power and economic influence.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

The company ... ivory -Rather, “thy benches (or, deck) made they of ivory with boxwood” (or, larch), i. e., boxwood inlaid with ivory. The isles -(or, coasts) of Chittim is a phrase used constantly for Greece and the Grecian islands. It may probably be extended to other islands in the Mediterranean seaGenesis 10:5, and there ivory may have been brought from the coasts of North Africa.

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