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Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge: Ezekiel: Ezekiel Chapter 27

Cross-Reference Bible NotesR.A. TorreyTreasury of Scriptural Knowledge

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This is a scriptural cross-reference and annotation entry from R.A. Torrey's *Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge* (ca. 1880), a Victorian-era biblical reference work in the tradition of exhaustive concordances. It covers Ezekiel 27, the prophetic lamentation over the ancient Phoenician city-state of Tyre, structured as dense verse-by-verse notation linking each phrase to dozens of parallel biblical passages. The primary content is Tyre's portrayal as a magnificently loaded merchant ship — drawing on its actual geography as a Mediterranean trading hub — describing in detail the city's commercial network spanning Syria, Arabia, Greece, Mesopotamia, and Africa, with specific goods including cedar, ivory, linen, wine from Helbon (identified here as Aleppo), wheat, balm, and enslaved people. The central argument follows Ezekiel's own: Tyre's pride in its wealth and beauty precedes total destruction, the ship metaphor resolving in catastrophic wreck, mourning by surrounding nations, and permanent obliteration. Torrey's annotations are notably geographic and historical rather than theological, identifying ancient place names (Elishah as part of the Peloponnesus, Helbon as Aleppo with precise coordinates) and attributing Tyre's fall to its resistance to both Nebuchadnezzar and Alexander. The work is primarily useful as a navigational tool for serious biblical study, not as independent scholarship — its value lies in its density of cross-references rather than any sustained argument.

Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge: Ezekiel: Ezekiel Chapter 27

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