--- title: "Isaiah 23 - Study King James Bible with pooles english annotations on the holy bible" description: "Read Isaiah 23 with pooles english annotations on the holy bible commentary. 1 The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim it is revealed" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/pooles-english-annotations-on-the-holy-bible/isaiah/23" --- [ Read](/kjv/isaiah/23)[ Commentary](/study/isaiah/23)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/isaiah/23) Audio 1 The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them. 2 Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.* 3 And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, *is* her revenue; and she is a mart of nations. 4 Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, *even* the strength of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do I nourish up young men, *nor* bring up virgins. 5 As at the report concerning Egypt, *so* shall they be sorely pained at the report of Tyre. 6 Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle. 7 *Is* this your joyous *city*, whose antiquity *is* of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.* 8 Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning *city*, whose merchants *are* princes, whose traffickers *are* the honourable of the earth? 9 The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, *and* to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.* 10 Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: *there is* no more strength.* 11 He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the LORD hath given a commandment against the merchant *city*, to destroy the strong holds thereof.*** 12 And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim; there also shalt thou have no rest. 13 Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, *till* the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; *and* he brought it to ruin. 14 Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste. 15 And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.* 16 Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered. 17 ΒΆ And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth. 18 And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the LORD: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the LORD, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.* [Isaiah 22](/study/isaiah/22) [Isaiah 24](/study/isaiah/24) ## Commentary To verse 1 **The burden of Tyre;**the prophecy of the heavy calamity and destruction of Tyre; which now stood in its strength and glory, being seated in an island, upon a rock, abounding in riches, mighty in naval power, having lately conquered that navy which the Assyrians brought against them. Yet this city was, according to this prophecy, destroyed; and that twice, first by Nebuchadnezzar, and long afterward by Alexander the Great. And although this prophecy seem directly and properly to respect the former destruction, yet it seems to have some reference to the latter also; only it is intimated, that after seventy years Tyrus should recover her former power and glory, before her second and final destruction. **Howl, ye ships;**either, 1. Properly; to which howling and lamenting is ascribed by a known figure called *prosopopoeia*: or, 2. Metonymically, the merchants and owners of ships, who had much commerce with this illustrious mart. **Of Tarshish;**either, 1. Of Tarsus, a great port of Cilicia, which anciently had the dominion of that part of the sea; or, 2. Of the ocean, which is so called, [1 Kings 10:22](/kjv/1-kings/10/22); [Psalms 48:7](/kjv/psalms/48/7); [Isaiah 2:16](/kjv/isaiah/2/16). **It is laid waste;**it shall shortly be laid waste; which was fulfilled not by Shalmaneser, as some would have it; for though he straitened it for some time, yet he never took it; but by Nebuchadnezzar. **No entering in;**so effectually wasted, that there is not a house left in it, nor any merchants or others that go into it, either to trade in it, or to repair it. **It is revealed to them:** the sense of the words thus rendered may be this, *it*, i.e. this burden or destruction of Tyre, *is*, i.e. shall be, revealed, declared or made known, unto them; either, 1. To the Tyrians, to whom this notice should be sent concerning the preparations of their enemies against them: or, 2. To the ships, by which he means their owners or merchants, **from the land of Chittim;**which may be here mentioned, either because they first had and gave them notice of it, as was now said; or because their last and sorest destruction was brought upon them by Alexander, who was *of the land of Chittim*, as is affirmed by that very ancient and venerable, though apocryphal writer,[1Ma 1:1](/kjv/-1ma/1/1) 8:5. But this place is otherwise rendered, both by ancient and later interpreters, which seems to be more natural and easy, and no less agreeable to the Hebrew text; either thus, *that she is laid waste, so that there is no house, nor entering or coming in* (to wit, for traffic) **from the land of Chittim,**is made known to them, to wit, to the ships or merchants that used to resort thither for traffic: or rather thus, for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, (not any houses left for the citizens to dwell in,)*nor entering or coming in* (to wit, of merchants) *from the land of Chittim; she* (to wit, her people) *is removed or gone into captivity*, as this word properly signifies, and is rendered, [Isaiah 38:12](/kjv/isaiah/38/12). And for the last Hebrew word, *lamo*, which is rendered *to them*, (which is the only objection against this interpretation,) it is only added as an elegancy of the Hebrew language, and hath no further signification, as it is also [Psalms 58:7](/kjv/psalms/58/7), and as the particle *lo*, which signifies the same thing, and such other pronouns, are frequently redundant and insignificant in the Hebrew text, as hath been oft observed by grammarians and interpreters. He mentions **the land of Chittim,**because this was an eminent place for shipping and trading, as is manifest from [Numbers 24:24](/kjv/numbers/24/24); [Ezekiel 27:6](/kjv/ezekiel/27/6); [Daniel 11:30](/kjv/daniel/11/30), and therefore doubtless had great dealings and commerce with Tyre, and may here be put synecdochically for all other countries which traded with her. It is not necessary, for the understanding of this text, to determine what Chittim is, whether it was Italy, or Greece, or the islands in those parts; it is sufficient to know that it was a seafaring place in the Midland Sea; and so much startled and concerned in the destruction of Tyre. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#website","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com","name":"Real Bible Believers","description":"RBB","publisher":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/search?q={search_term_string}","query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/pooles-english-annotations-on-the-holy-bible/isaiah/23#primaryimage","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg","contentUrl":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg","width":672,"height":448,"caption":"Real Bible Believers"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/pooles-english-annotations-on-the-holy-bible/isaiah/23#webpage","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/pooles-english-annotations-on-the-holy-bible/isaiah/23","name":"Isaiah 23 - Study King James Bible with pooles english annotations on the holy bible","isPartOf":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/pooles-english-annotations-on-the-holy-bible/isaiah/23#primaryimage"},"author":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509"},"description":"Read Isaiah 23 with pooles english annotations on the holy bible commentary. 1 The burden of Tyre. 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