Verse 3
3. At the entry Literally, entries. Tyre was built on an island having a double harbor.
A merchant See note Ezekiel 26:2.
I am of perfect beauty This was the verdict of all antiquity. Travelers tried in vain to describe this princess of the seas. (Compare Nonnus, Dionysiaca, 40:311, etc.) “Greatly Dionysus rejoiced when he saw the city which the ocean god had bound with the liquid girdle of the waves. In shape she was like the crescent moon. As he looked it seemed a double wonder, since Tyre lies in the sea and is bound by the waves and yet belongs to the land. She seemed like a maiden floating motionless, half submerged in the waters.” A letter written in the fourteenth century B.C. reads, “Behold the palace of the city of Tyre: there is no palace of any other governor like unto it.” (For further description of Tyre see notes Ezekiel 26:2; Ezekiel 28:2; Ezekiel 28:12. Compare Scholar Gypsy, Arnold.)
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