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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Arvad
Arwad today, a small fortified island city off the Syrian coast. Ezekiel says Tyre hired its sailors and soldiers. It was founded by Phoenician settlers and is in the Amarna letters already, with its own fleet.
Arwad today, a small fortified island city off the Syrian coast. Ezekiel says Tyre hired its sailors and soldiers. It was founded by Phoenician settlers and is in the Amarna letters already, with its own fleet.
Arvad, modern Arwad, was a small fortified island city off the Syrian coast whose sailors and soldiers Tyre hired as mercenaries and mariners according to Ezekiel's oracle against that city (Ezekiel 27:8, 11). Founded by Phoenician settlers early in the second millennium BC, Arvad ran its own fleet and local dynasty and appears already in the fourteenth-century BC Amarna letters, where its ships figure in the political struggles among the Levantine coastal cities.
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- Ezekiel 27:8
- Ezekiel 27:11
