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Ezekiel 27:8

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27:8The leaders11 of Sidon12 and Arvad13 were your rowers;

your skilled14 men, O Tyre, were your captains.

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Footnotes

  1. 11 The reads “the residents of”; the reads “your rulers who dwell in.” With no apparent reason for the to add “the rulers” many suppose something has dropped out of the Hebrew text. While more than one may be possible, Allen’s proposal, positing a word meaning “elders,” is the most likely to explain the omission in the from a graphic standpoint and also provides a parallel to the beginning of v. 9. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (), 2:.a parallel to v. 9.
  2. 12 For location see ; ; .
  3. 13 Sidon and Arvad, like Tyre, were Phoenician coastal cities.
  4. 14 Or “wise.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad

were your rowers;

your skilled men, O Tyre, were in you;

they were your pilots.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Men of Sidon and Arvad were your oarsmen;

your skilled men, Tyre, were aboard as your sailors.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad

were your rowers.

Your wise men were within you, Tyre;

they were your captains.

NLTNew Living Translation

Your oarsmen came from Sidon and Arvad;

your helmsmen were skilled men from Tyre itself.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvan

were your rowers;

your skilled men, O Tyre, were from your own people,

and they were your seamen.

KJV 1900King James Version

The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise men, O Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots.