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Isaiah 23

Isa. 23:8 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Who hath taken this counsel
ya`ats (Hebrew #3289)
to advise; reflexively, to deliberate or resolve
KJV usage: advertise, take advise, advise (well), consult, (give, take) counsel(-lor), determine, devise, guide, purpose.
Pronounce: yaw-ats'
Origin: a primitive root
against Tyre
Tsor (Hebrew #6865)
the same as 6864; a rock; Tsor, a place in Palestine
KJV usage: Tyre, Tyrus.
Pronounce: tsore
Origin: or Tsowr {tsore}
, the crowning
`atar (Hebrew #5849)
to encircle (for attack or protection); especially to crown (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: compass, crown.
Pronounce: aw-tar'
Origin: a primitive root
city, whose merchants
cachar (Hebrew #5503)
to travel round (specifically as a pedlar); intensively, to palpitate
KJV usage: go about, merchant(-man), occupy with, pant, trade, traffick.
Pronounce: saw-khar'
Origin: a primitive root
are princes
sar (Hebrew #8269)
a head person (of any rank or class)
KJV usage: captain (that had rule), chief (captain), general, governor, keeper, lord, ((-task- ))master, prince(-ipal), ruler, steward.
Pronounce: sar
Origin: from 8323
, whose trafficers
Kna`an (Hebrew #3667)
humiliated; Kenaan, a son a Ham; also the country inhabited by him
KJV usage: Canaan, merchant, traffick.
Pronounce: ken-ah'-an
Origin: from 3665
are the honorable
kabad (Hebrew #3513)
a primitive root; to be heavy, i.e. in a bad sense (burdensome, severe, dull) or in a good sense (numerous, rich, honorable; causatively, to make weighty (in the same two senses)
KJV usage: abounding with, more grievously afflict, boast, be chargeable, X be dim, glorify, be (make) glorious (things), glory, (very) great, be grievous, harden, be (make) heavy, be heavier, lay heavily, (bring to, come to, do, get, be had in) honour (self), (be) honourable (man), lade, X more be laid, make self many, nobles, prevail, promote (to honour), be rich, be (go) sore, stop.
Pronounce: kaw-bad'
Origin: or kabed {kaw-bade'}
of the earth
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
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Earth,
Prince; Princess,
Tyre; Tyrus

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Ministry on This Verse

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Who hath.
Deut. 29:24‑28• 24even all nations shall say, Why has Jehovah done thus to this land? whence the heat of this great anger?
 25And men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of Jehovah the God of their fathers, which he had made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt;
 26and they went and served other gods, and bowed down to them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not assigned to them.
 27And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curse that is written in this book;
 28and Jehovah rooted them out of their land in anger, and in fury, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it appears this day. (Deut. 29:24‑28)
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Jer. 50:44‑45• 44Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of the Jordan against the strong habitation; for I will make him suddenly run away from it; and who is a chosen man whom I may appoint over her? For who is like me? and who will assign me a time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?
 45Therefore hear the counsel of Jehovah, which he hath taken against Babylon, and his purposes which he hath purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: The little ones of the flock shall certainly draw them away; he shall certainly make their habitation desolate for them. (Jer. 50:44‑45)
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Rev. 18:8• 8for this reason in one day shall her plagues come, death and grief and famine, and she shall be burnt with fire; for strong is the Lord God who has judged her. (Rev. 18:8)
the crowning.
Ezek. 28:2‑6,12‑18• 2Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyre, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thy heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a *god, I sit in the seat of God, in the heart of the seas, (and thou art a man, and not *God,) and thou settest thy heart as the heart of God:
 3behold, thou art wiser than Daniel! nothing secret is obscure for thee;
 4by thy wisdom and by thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures;
 5by thy great wisdom thou hast by thy traffic increased thy riches, and thy heart is lifted up because of thy riches.
 6Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thou hast set thy heart as the heart of God,
 12Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyre, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Thou, who sealest up the measure of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty,
 13thou wast in Eden, the garden of God. Every precious stone was thy covering: the sardius, the topaz, and the diamond, the chrysolite, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the carbuncle, and the emerald, and gold. The workmanship of thy tambours and of thy pipes was in thee: in the day that thou wast created were they prepared.
 14Thou wast the anointed covering cherub, and I had set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou didst walk up and down in the midst of stones of fire.
 15Thou wast perfect in thy ways, from the day that thou wast created, till unrighteousness was found in thee.
 16By the abundance of thy traffic they filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned; therefore have I cast thee as profane from the mountain of God, and have destroyed thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
 17Thy heart was lifted up because of thy beauty; thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I have cast thee to the ground, I have laid thee before kings, that they may behold thee.
 18By the multitude of thine iniquities, by the unrighteousness of thy traffic, thou hast profaned thy sanctuaries: and I have brought forth a fire out of the midst of thee--it hath consumed thee; and I have brought thee to ashes upon the earth, in the sight of all them that behold thee. (Ezek. 28:2‑6,12‑18)
merchants.
Isa. 10:8• 8For he saith, Are not my princes all kings? (Isa. 10:8)
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Isa. 36:9• 9How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants? And thou reliest upon Egypt for chariots and for horsemen! (Isa. 36:9)
• In the days of David and Solomon its kings had been very favorably disposed and helpful, but its great wealth and prosperity had wrought corruption, as seems always to be the case in this fallen world. (“Isaiah 23” by F.B. Hole)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Who hath purposed this against Tyre, the distributor of crowns, whose merchants were princes, whose dealers were the honourable of the earth?