1; tecauſe Tyre waza Bulwark, anda Refuge, and a great Advantage t5 them; and partly becauſe her Fall made way for their Ruine, as bzing deſtroyed by their common Enemy. s Hath contrived and purpoſed it, as was faid, v. 8. 9. hath put this deſign into tae Heads and Hzarts of herEnemies,znd given themCourage to atempr, and Strength ro execute ſo difficult an Enterpriſe, * Heb. againſt Canaan : the Word Canaan being taken either, 1. for a merchant as it is uſed, Joh 41, 6. Hoſ. 12. 7. or rather, 2+ for the Proper name of a Place or Peop'e, as it is generally. uſed : for the Tyrians and 3:4onians were deſcended from Canaan, Gen. 10, 15. and were the on- ly con'iderable Remainders of that curſed Race whom God had de-
. Voted to Deſtruction. And ſo this Phraſe may be here uſed, both as an Evidence and as an Argument of their intended and approach- ing Ruine.
' 12 And heſaid, Thou shalt nomore rejoyce, O thou cppreſſed virgin «, daughter of Zidon : arife paſsover coChittim y, there alſoshalt thou have no. reſt z. _
4 $0 he calls her, either for her Pride and Beauty, and living in great eaſe and pleaſure ; or becauſe ſhe had hitherto never born the yoke of a conquering Enerty : though withall he declares, that ſhe
thould be oppreſſed or deflowred very ſuddenly. x Whereby he uygs
derſtands either, 1- Zidon her ſelf, who ſuffered in and- with Tyre ; for fo thisPhcaſe ſeems generally to be uſed,che daughter of Sion,or of Je- ruſalem, or of Babel, or Egypt, ©. being nothing elſe but Son, Jerus Salem, Babel, Ezyp:, &c,or rather, 2. Tyrus, as moſt Interpreters both Jewiſh and Chriſtian underſtand it, of whom this whole Context and Prophecy ſpeaks ; which may well be called the daughter of Zidon, becauſe ſhe was firſt built and poſleſſed by a Colony of the Si4onrans ; as Pliny calleth Carthage the Daughter of Tyre, becauſe ſherwas built by a Colony of Tyrians, And the Title of da1zhter is oft-times given in Scripture to Towns or Cities which had their Being from, or Dee pendence upon other Cities; in which ſenſe weread of rhe daughter of Hejbbon, Numb 21, 25. and of Rabbah, Jer, 49. 2, 3- and of So= dom, and of Samaria, Ezik. 16. 46, 49, 53. And the daughter of Tar- ſhiſb here above, v 10. isnot meant of Tarſh:ſh it ſelf, but of Tyrus, whict had a relation ro, and Dependance upon Tarſhiſh. y Of which Place, fee on v. 1. x Thitherthine Enemies ſhal purſue thee, and there ſka) they overrake thee, although thou wilt think thy ſelf ſes cure when thou art fled ro remote Parts beyond the Sea, |
13 Behold the land of the Caldeans a; this people was not b, tillthe Allycian founded it for them that dwell in the wiiderneſs c they ſet up the towers there-
of, they raiſed up the palaces thereof 4, and he brought ic to ruine f. | |
_ @ You Tyriaus, who think your City impregnable, caſt your Eyes upon tie Land and Empire ofthe Chaldeans, or Babylonians; which, though now it be a flouriſhing Kingdom, and ſhal ſhortly grow far more glorious and potent, even zhe glory of kingdoms, as it 15 called, Iſa, '3e 19. yer ſhal certainly be brought to utter rujne : and there» fore your Preſumption is moſt vain andunreaſonable. þ The Chal. deans at firſt werenot a People,nor formed into any Commonwealth or Kingdom. & Till Nimrod, the Head and Founder of the 4ſſrian Monarchy, built Babel, Gen. 10: 9. now the head of the Chaldean Monarchy, which he built for thoſe People, who then lived in 'Tents, and were diſperſed here and there in wild and waſte places, that he mighr bring them inro Order, and urider Goverment, and thereby eſtabliſh and promote his @wn Empire. d The Chaldeans being by this means brought together into a Body, fell tothe Work of Building their City, and its Towers and Palaces; and thereby got Power and Dominion over their Neighbours, till at laſt they grew the greateſt of a)l the Monarchies that then were upen Earth. e The Lord, who is expreſſed pefore, and is frequenrly deſigned in Scrip- ture by this indefinite Pronoun he, as hath been many times obſer- ved: Whereby heinſin::ates the rrue Reiſfon why neither the Chal- Aeaus nor the Tyrians ſhould be able :0 ſtand, becauſe the Almighty God was engaged againſt rhem, Ff Wil infallibly bring that great Empire to ruine. He ſpeaks of a future thing as if it were already Paſt, as the Prophers ule todo, The Cbaldeans ſhal now return to Their firſt Nothing, and become no People again,
_ x4 Howl, ye ships of Tarshish : for your ſtrength g is laid waſte. g The City of Tyre, where you found Safery and Wealth. x5 And itshal come to pal: in thatday, that Tyre Shal be forgorten h ſeventy years, according to thedays
it of one king k: after the end of ſeventy years þ shal Tyre ſing as an harlot /. |
h Negle&edand forſaken by thoſe who uſed to reſort thither. ; During the whole time of the Jewiſh Captivity in Bebylon. For Tyrus was taken by Nebuchaanezzar,Jer. 27. 3, 8. Exzek. 26. 7. alittle afrer the taking of Jeruſalem, and was reſtored by the favour of the Perſian Monarchs after the return of the Jews from the Captivi- ty of Babylon, k Fither, 1, of the Kingdom of Babylon, which laſt- ed ſo long after this time ; the Word king being put for kingaom, as itis Dan. 7. 17. &' 8. 21, or, 2. of oneRoyal Race, of Nebuchad. nezzar, including his Son,8&his Son's Son. in whom his Family & Kingdom were to expire as we read £zek,28, 7. | She ſhal by degrees returnto her former Sate of Proſperiry and T raffick, whereby ſhe ſha] eaſily entice theMerchants ofthe World to converſeand trade with
wy as Harlots uſe to entice their Cuſtomers by Laſcivious ONgs.
NroCiy 16 Take an Harp, go about || thecity #, thou har- lot » that haſt been forgotten ; make ſweet melody ,fing many ſongs, that thou mayſt be remembred 0. |
»m As Harlors uſe to do, to allure Cuſtomers. 1So he calleth Fre partly becauſe ſhe enticed Merchants to deal wich her by various Artifices, and even by diſhoneſt Prattices, as Harlots ule : and part- ly becauſe of he great and general Uncleanneſs which was both
committed and tolerated in it. e By thole who had forgotten thee, v. 15. |
17 And it ſhal corre to'paſs abi the end of ſeven- ty years, that the LORD will viſit Tyre p, and'she
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Shal turn to her kire 9, and 5ha} commit fornication with all thekingdoms of the world r upon the face of the earth.