Isaiah 23:11 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 23:11

The LORD has stretched out His hand over the sea; He has made kingdoms tremble. He has given a command that the strongholds of Canaan be destroyed.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

He hath stretched out his hand over the sea, he hath shaken the kingdoms: Jehovah hath given commandment concerning Canaan, to destroy the strongholds thereof.

KJV

He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the Lord hath given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy the strong holds thereof.

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Commentary

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Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

He stretched out his hand - That is, Yahweh (see Isa 23:9). To stretch out the hand is indicative of punishment (see the notes at Isa 5:25; Isa 9:12), and means that God has resolved to inflict exemplary punishment on Tyre and its dependent colonies. Over the sea - That is, over the sea coast of Phenicia; or over the cities that were built on the coast. This alludes to the fact that Nebuchadnezzar would lay siege to these cities, and would ravage the maritime coast of Phenicia.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
יָדוֹ֙	ya.Do	hand his	H3027 →
נָטָ֣ה	na.Tah	he has stretched out	H5186 →
עַל־	'al-	over	H5921 →
הַיָּ֔ם	hai.Yam	the sea	H3220 →
הִרְגִּ֖יז	hir.Giz	he has made tremble	H7264 →
מַמְלָכ֑וֹת	mam.la.Khot	kingdoms	H4467 →
יְהוָה֙	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
צִוָּ֣ה	tzi.Vah	he has commanded	H6680 →
אֶל־	'el-	concerning	H413 →
כְּנַ֔עַן	ke.Na.'an	Canaan	H3667 →
לַשְׁמִ֖ד	lash.Mid	to destroy	H8045 →
מָעֻזְנֶֽיהָ׃	ma.'uz.Nei.ha	strongholds its	H4581 →

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The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Exodus 14:21
Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove back the sea with a strong east wind that turned it into dry land. So the waters were…
leads to
- Isaiah 63:12
  who sent His glorious arm to lead them by the right hand of Moses, who divided the waters before them to gain for Himself everlasting renown,
- Psalms 66:6
  He turned the sea into dry land; they passed through the waters on foot; there we rejoiced in Him.
- Exodus 15:8
  At the blast of Your nostrils the waters piled up; like a wall the currents stood firm; the depths congealed in the heart of the sea.
- Nehemiah 9:11
  You divided the sea before them, and they crossed through it on dry ground. You hurled their pursuers into the depths like a stone into raging waters.
- Isaiah 51:10
  Was it not You who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made a road in the depths of the sea for the redeemed to cross over?
Through
Genesis 9:25
he said, “Cursed be Canaan! A servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.”
leads to
- Deuteronomy 27:16
  ‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or mother.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
- Joshua 9:23
  Now therefore you are under a curse and will perpetually serve as woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God.”
- Judges 1:28–30
  When Israel became stronger, they pressed the Canaanites into forced labor, but they never drove them out completely.