Mecca and Medina. The preoiou1 1tone1 The LXX. gives Oharman, a town near tha includes onyx, rubies, agates, und cornelians Euphrates, mentioned in Xenophon, 'Anab.,' found in the mountains of He.dradiant, and i. 5, 10, BB Charmo.nde. It can scarcely the jaspers and crystals of Yemen. In the have been a place of much general note, but Rhammanitm, mentioned by Strabo as a may have h&d some special repnto.tinn which Sabman tribe (xvi. 782), we have, perliaps, made it prominent in Tyrio.n commerce. 11, survival of the old name. Ver. 24.-Iu all sorts of things; better, Ver. 28.-Ha.ra.n and Canneh, etc. From with the Revised Version, in choice wares. Arabia we pass to Mesopotamia. Haran Hebrew, article, of beauty; or, BB in margin ol (Gen. xi. SI) stands for the Carrhm of the the Authorized Version, ''euellent things." Romans, situated at the point where the The words have been vo.riollBly interpreted, old military and commercial roads bifurcated (1) by Ewe.Id, RB "suits of armour:" (2) by towards Babylon and the Delta of the Keil,as "stately dresses:" byHii.vernick, BB Persian Gulf in the one direction, and "works of art" generally. The description Cana.an in the other. It appears in Gen. in detn.il that follows i1 so vivid o.s to JUiv. 10 and xxix. 4 as the city of Nabor, in give the impression that Ezekiel had Mesopotamia (Aram-Nnha.raim, equivalent seen the merchonts of Sheba unloading to "Syria of the two rivers"), or, more dell- their CC1mels and bringing out their trea- nitely, in Pado.n-Aram, which lies below sures as they arrived at Tyre. The blue Mount Masias, between the Kha.hour and olothea (u,,rapping, of blue, as in the Re- the Euphrates. It is famous in Roman vised Version) were the purple robes or histor;r for the defeat of Cra.ssus by the Babylon, which were famous all over the Parth10.ns. Co.nneh. The eastern of the two world. The words that follow 11re some- roads jast mentioned ran on to Co.lneh (of what obscure, but are probably rightly whioh Oo.nneh is a variant), no.mad in translated by Keil, "embroidered of twisted Gen. L 10 as one of the cities built by yam, in-wound, and strong cords for thy Nimrod. It is probably represented by the wares." The yBl'Il may have been used for modern Nijfer, about sixty miles south- the cordage or the Tyrian ships. The east of Babylon. It is named in le&, x. 9 words, made of oedar, aro in this rendering in connection with Cnrchemish, in Amos Ti. to.ken as an o.djeotive, equivalent to ••firm" 2 with Hamath the great, a.a conquered by or "strong" (so Fiirst). the Assyrians. It has been conjecturally Ver. 25.-Tho verso begins a new section, identified by the Targum and other ancient and glides bnok into the original metaphor writers with Ctesiphon, but(?). Eden; spelt of the ship, as in vers. 4-9. The ships differently in the Hebrew from the Eden of of To.rsbish are used generioa\ly for mer- Gen. ii. 8. It is probably identical with chant-ships. The catalogue of the com• the Eden near Thelassu (Tel-.A.ssar) of meroe ends with ver. 24, and the more tsa. JUXVii, 12 and 2 Kings xix. 12, where, poetio imagery reappears. It was, as cen- o.s here, it is connected with Ho.ran as tring in herself all that they brought to her among the Assyrian conquests. Its site that the merohent-oity w1111 very glorio111 has not been detormined, and it has been in the midst of the waters. For aing of placed by some geogro.phers in the hill- thee, read, the ,hips of Tar,hish toere thy country nbove the Upper Mesopotamian cara1:1ans (Rovised Version). The word has plains ; by others near the conflucnce of also the sense of " wall," us in Jer. v. 10 the Tigris and Euphrates. The position and Job xxiv. 11: and this, describing the of the Eden of Amos i. 5, near Dnmascus, ships as the "wooden walls" of Tyre, gives points to a. Syrian town of the same n tenable.sense bore. no.me, The merohants of Sheba. The Ver. 26.-Thy rowers have brought thee. reourrence of the no.me after the full men• The metaphor goes on its courso. The tlon of the people in ver. 22 arises pro- state-ship is in the open sea., o.n,l tho 011st bably from the fact that they wore the wind, the Euroclydon of the Mcditerrnuee.n carriers in the commorce betwec,n the (Acts xxvii. 14), blows nnd threntons it Mesopotamian cities just named o.ncl Tyro. with dcstruotion (comp. Pa. xlviii. 7). In A11hur. The no.me mn.y stand (Smend), as that destruction all who contributed to I.tor it commonly does, for Assyrin ns a. country: prosperity were involved. Tho picture re- but its juxtaposition with the nomos of minds us of the description of tho ship or cities bes led some geogrnphers (Movers, Te.rshish in Jon. i 4, 5. The oity shall p. 252, in Keil) to identify with o. city be left, in that terrible day, in the heart Sura (Essurieh.) on the west bank of the of the seas (Revised Version). Euphrates, 11,bovo Tho.pso.cus (the Tiphsal1 Vor. 28.-The auburba. Tho word is so of 1 Kings iv. 24), and on the caravo.n- translated in eh. xiv. 2, and xlviii. I 7, o.ntl is routo which runs from Palmyra (the Tad- used of the pnsture-lands round the cities mor of 2 Obron. viii. ¼) to Haran. Chil- of refuge in Numb. mv. 2. Here it is mad. The name is not founcl elsewhere. probably used in a wider sense for the 90 THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET EZEKIEL. [oa. xxvu. 1-36.
ooast-lo.nde of Phmnicie., or even (M in the mourning, see Josh. vii. 6; 1 Sam. iv. 12; margin) for the "waves" that washed the Job ii. 12, et al.; for "wallowing in the shores of the island-city. The Vulgate dust," Jer. vi. 26; xxv. 84; Micah i. 10-16. gives cltUBes ( equivalent to "fleets "). For the " baldness " and " so.okcloth " of Vers. 29-31.-And all th&t handle the ver. 81, see oh. vii. 18.) oar, etc. The picture is, perhaps, fignra- •Ver. 82.-As in other instances of extreme tive. .As Tyre itself was the great state-ship, sorrow, the inarticulate signs of grief pass so the other ships may stand for the other after a time into spoken words. What city Phmnician cities that beheld her downfall. is like Tyrus, eto. ? What parallel oan be Looking to the picture itself, it presents the found in the world's history, either for her rowers and others as feeling that, if the magnificence or her fall? The shipwreck great ship had been wrecked, there was of her fortunes ( we are still in the region little hope of safety for them, and so they of the prophet's metaphors) would be utter leave their ships and stand on the coast and irretrievable. wailing. (For outing dust, as a sign of