Introduction
2. A funeral dirge over Tyre ch. 27
This chapter consists of prose (Ezekiel 27:1-3 a, Ezekiel 27:10-25 a) and poetic sections (Ezekiel 27:3-9, Ezekiel 27:25-36). Ezekiel composed the poetic parts in the traditional qinah or funeral dirge rhythm.
"Many feel that the vividness of detail of this chapter places it practically without parallel in the history of literature. . . . To understand the chapter ethnologically one must study it in the light of Genesis 10; to do it justice from the viewpoint of prophecy, Isaiah 13-14 and Revelation 18 must be carefully weighed." [Note: Feinberg, p. 152.]
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