They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.
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Gill's Exposition
Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars,.... To row the ships with; for their ships probably were no other than galleys, which were rowed with oars, as were the ships of first invention.…
Barnes' Notes
Fir-trees (or, cypress) of Senir - The name by which the Amorites knew Mount Hermon.
Adam Clarke
Fir trees of Senir - Senir is a mountain which the Sidonians called Sirion, and the Hebrews Hermon, Deu 3:9. It was beyond Jordan, and extended from Libanus to the mountains of Gilead.
Here, I. The prophet is ordered to take up a lamentation for Tyrus, Eze 27:2. It was yet in the height of its prosperity, and there appeared not the least symptom of its decay; yet the prophet must…
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