Charles Ellicott Commentary Ezekiel 27:8

"The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were thy rowers: thy wise men, O Tyre, were in thee, they were thy pilots." — Ezekiel 27:8 (ASV)

Arvad. — The description now turns to the sailors. The Arvadite is mentioned among the family of Canaan in Genesis 10:18, and corresponds to the Greek Aradus. There were two islands of this name: one in the Persian Gulf, the other (the one here intended) a rocky island north of the coast of Tripoli, on which a city was built like Tyre. The Phoenician cities of Sidon and Arvad furnished the oarsmen, but Tyre itself the superior captains and pilots.