Verse Lens · Context pointer
Isaiah 23:13 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 13. 13Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought it to ruin.
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Role in This Section
The oracle concerning Zion and the nations introduces or commands “Behold the land of the Chaldeans” at Isaiah 23:13 as “Tyre's Trade Network Laments Its Fall” develops.
Read It With
- Isaiah 23:1–14
Follow Isaiah 23:1–14, not verse 23:13 alone. The oracle concerning Zion and the nations introduces or commands “Behold the land of the Chaldeans” at Isaiah 23:13 as “Tyre's Trade Network Laments Its Fall” develops. The controlling limit is: Tyre's Trade Network Laments Its Fall does not authorize mapping ancient names onto modern ethnic enemies, collective punishment, colonial domination, or political demonization.
Why It Needs Context
Isaiah 23:13 performs a local role inside “Tyre's Trade Network Laments Its Fall.” The oracle concerning Zion and the nations introduces or commands “Behold the land of the Chaldeans” at Isaiah 23:13 as “Tyre's Trade Network Laments Its Fall” develops. The selected verse alone does not carry the full claim.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Isaiah 23:1–14 — Tyre's Trade Network Laments Its FallSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Isaiah 23:1–14, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Isaiah
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology at the exact unit, without treating morphology as apparatus, lexicon, composition history, or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Isa.xml, OSIS 23:1–14 with Hebrew/KJV versification difference checked
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