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The daughter of Tyre, i.e. the people or citizens of Tyre; as the daughter of Zion, or Jerusalem, or Babel, &c., are put for their inhabitants, 2Ki_19:21 Psa_137:8 Zec_9:9. He mentioneth the Tyrians, partly because they did give presents to Solomon, 1Ki_5:1, &c., to whom here is a continued allusion through the whole Psalm; and partly because they among others, and before many others, were to be converted to Christ, as they were. See Mat_11:21,22 Mr 3:8 7:24 Act_21:3-5. But they are here put synecdochically for all the Gentiles, whom that city fitly represents, as being the mart of the nations, as she is called, Isa_23:3. And being a very rich and proud, and therefore a self-conceited and a stiffnecked people, their merchants being princes, Isa_23:8 they may in a particular manner represent all those great and proud princes and stubborn people of the Gentile world, which should be subdued to Christ by the preaching of the gospel.
With a gift; partly to testify their homage, which was done by gifts or presents, as appears from 1Sa_10:27 2Sa_8:2, &c.; and partly to procure thine, and consequently thy husband’s, favour, as it here follows.
The rich among the people of other nations.