Chapter 23 – FAMILIA MUNDIAL
1 [1-4,12-14] These verses refer to Sidon, ⇒ Isaiah 23:5-11 to Tyre.
2 [1] Kittim: Cyprus.
3 [3] Shihor: a synonym for the Nile.
4 [4] The sea: brings to distant coasts the news that Sidon must disown her children; her people are dispersed.
5 [11] Canaan’s strongholds: the fortresses of Phoenicia.
6 [13] The gloss here identifies she whom the impious founded with the land of the Chaldeans.
7 [15] Seventy years: a conventional period of time indicating simply a long disaster; cf ⇒ Jeremiah 25:11; ⇒ 29:10.
8 [18] Describes the conversion of Tyre.