27:8 The leaders 1 of Sidon 2 and Arvad 3 were your rowers;
your skilled 4 men, O Tyre, were your captains.
27:12 “‘Tarshish 5 was your trade partner because of your abundant wealth; they exchanged silver, iron, tin, and lead for your products.
1 tc The MT reads “the residents of”; the LXX reads “your rulers who dwell in.” With no apparent reason for the LXX 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 MT from a graphic standpoint and also provides a parallel to the beginning of v. 9. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:81.a parallel to v. 9.
2 map For location see Map1-A1; JP3-F3; JP4-F3.
3 sn Sidon and Arvad, like Tyre, were Phoenician coastal cities.
4 tn Or “wise.”
5 sn Tarshish refers to a distant seaport sometimes believed to be located in southern Spain (others identified it as Carthage in North Africa). In any event it represents here a distant, rich, and exotic port which was a trading partner of Tyre.