Geneva Bible Notes: Isaiah 23

Isaiah 23:1 ^! A prophecie against Tyrus.

Isaiah 23:1 ^a Read {Chap 13, 1}.

Isaiah 23:1 ^b Ye of Cilicia that come thether for marchandise.

Isaiah 23:1 ^c Tyrus is destroied by Nebuchadnezzar.

Isaiah 23:1 ^d By Chittim thei ment all the yles and countreis Westward from Palestina.

Isaiah 23:1 ^e All men knowe of this destruction.

Isaiah 23:2 ^f Haue haunted thee & enriched thee.

Isaiah 23:3 ^g Meaning, the corne of Egypt which was fed by the ouer flowing of Nilus.

Isaiah 23:4 ^h That is, Tyrus, which was the chief port of the Sea.

Isaiah 23:4 ⁱ I haue no people left in me, and am as a baren woman that neuer had childe.

Isaiah 23:5 ^k Because these two countreis were joined in league together.

Isaiah 23:6 ^l Tyrus willeth other marchants to go to Cilicia and to come no more there.

Isaiah 23:8 ^m Who maketh her marchants like princes.

Isaiah 23:10 ⁿ Thy strength wil no more serve thee: therefore flee to other countries for succour.

Isaiah 23:12 ^o For Tyrus was neuer touched nor afflicted before.

Isaiah 23:12 ^p Because Tyrus was buylt by them of Zidon.

Isaiah 23:13 ^q The Chaldeans which dwelt in tentes in the wildernes, were gathered by the Assyrians into cities.

Isaiah 23:13 ^r The people of Chaldeans destroyed the Assyrians: whereby the Prophet meaneth, that seing the Chaldeans were able to ouercome the Assyrians, which were so great a nation, much more shal these two nations of Chaldea & Assyria be able to ouerthrowe Tyrus.

Isaiah 23:14 ^s That is, Tyrus, by whome ye are enriched.

Isaiah 23:15 ^u Shal vse all craft and subultie to entise men againe to her.

Isaiah 23:15 ^t Tyrus shal lie destroied 70 yeres, which he calleth the reigne of one King, or a mans age.

Isaiah 23:16 ^x She shal labour by all meanes to recouer her first credit, as an harlot when she is long forgotten, seketh by all meanes to enterteine her louers.

Isaiah 23:17 ^y Thogh she haue bene caastised of the Lord, yet she shal returne to her olde wicked practices, & for gaine shal giue her self to all mens lusts like an harlot.

Isaiah 23:17 ^! A promise that it shal be restored.

Isaiah 23:18 ^z He sheweth that God yet by the preaching of the Godspel wil call Tyrus to repentance, & turne her heart from auarice and filthie gaine vnto the true worshiping of God and liberalitie toward his Saints.