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Tyre

Antiquity of - Isa 23:7; Jos 19:29

CALLED

• The daughter of Zidon
- Isa 23:12
• The daughter of Tarshish
- Isa 23:10
• The joyous city
- Isa 23:7
• The crowning city
- Isa 23:8
• The renowned city
- Eze 26:17

Insular position of - Eze 26:17; 27:4,25

Strongly fortified - Jos 19:29; 2Sa 24:7; Eze 26:17; Zec 9:3

Governed by kings - 1Ki 5:1; Jer 25:22

CELEBRATED FOR

• Its beauty
- Eze 27:3,4
• Its commerce
- Isa 23:2,3; Eze 27:3,12-25
• Its wealth
- Eze 27:33; 28:4,5; Zec 9:3
• Strength and beauty of its ships
- Eze 27:5-7

Soldiers of, supplied by Persia, &c - Eze 27:10,11

INHABITANTS OF

• Sea-faring men
- Eze 26:17
• Mercantile men
- Isa 23:8
• Proud and haughty
- Isa 23:9; Eze 28:2,17
• Self-conceited
- Eze 28:3-5
• Superstitious
- Jer 27:2,3,9
• Wicked
- Eze 28:18

Often confederated against the Jews and rejoiced in their calamities - Ps 83:7; Eze 26:2; Am 1:9

David and Solomon formed alliances with - 1Ki 5:1; 2Ch 2:3

SUPPLIED

• Seamen for Solomon's navy
- 1Ki 9:27; 2Ch 8:18
• A master-builder for the temple
- 2Ch 2:7,13
• Stones and timber for building the temple
- 1Ki 5:6,9; 2Ch 2:8,9,16
• Timber for rebuilding the temple and city
- Ezr 3:7

The Jews condemned for purchasing from the people of, on the Sabbath - Ne 13:16

CHRIST

• Alluded to the depravity of
- Mt 11:21,22
• Visited the coasts of
- Mt 15:21; Mr 7:24
• Was followed by many from
- Mr 3:8; Lu 6:17
• Paul found disciples at
- Ac 21:3,4
• Depended for provision upon Galilee
- Ac 12:20

Propitiated the favour of Herod - Ac 12:20

PROPHECIES RESPECTING

• Envy against the Jews a cause of its destruction
- Eze 26:2
• Pride a cause of its destruction
- Eze 28:2-6
• To be destroyed by the king of Babylon
- Isa 23:13,14; Jer 27:3,6; Eze 26:7-13
• Inhabitants of, to emigrated to other countries
- Isa 23:6,12
• To be scraped as the top of a rock, and to be a place for
the spreading nets - Eze 26:3-5,14
• The king of Babylon to be rewarded with the spoil of Egypt
for his service against - Eze 29:18-20
• To lie waste and be forgotten for seventy years
- Isa 23:15
• Its restoration to commercial greatness after seventy years
- Isa 23:16,17
• Its second destruction by the Macedonians
- Eze 27:32; 28:7,8,18; Zec 9:2-4
• The ruins of the first city to be employed in making a
causeway to effect the destruction of insular Tyre - Eze 26:12
• Never to recover its greatness
- Eze 26:21
• Its inhabitants to be sold as slaves, as a recompence for
their selling the Jews - Joe 3:4-8
• All nations to be terrified at its destruction
- Eze 26:15-18; 27:29-36; Zec 9:5
• To participated in the blessings of the gospel
- Ps 45:12; Isa 23:18
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