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am 3289, bc 715
burden: Tyre, whose destruction by Nebuchadnezzar is here foretold, was a city of Phoenicia, on the shore of the Mediterranean, twenty-four miles south of Sidon, and thirty-two north of Accho or Ptolemais, according to the Antonine and Jerusalem Itineraries, about latitude 33 degrees 18 minutes north, longitude 35 degrees 10 minutes east. There were two cities of this name; one on the continent called Pale Tyrus, or Old Tyre, according to Strabo, thirty stadia south of the other, which was situated on an island, not above 700 paces from the main land, says Pliny. Old Tyre was taken by Nebuchadnezzar, after a siege of thirteen years, bc 573, which he so utterly destroyed, that it never afterwards rose higher than a village. But previous to this, the inhabitants had removed their effects to the island which afterwards became so famous by the name of Tyre, though now consisting only of about 800 dwellings. Jer 25:15, Jer 25:22, Jer 47:4; Ezek. 26:1-28:25; Joe 3:4-8; Amo 1:9-10; Zec 9:2, Zec 9:4
Howl: Isa 15:2, Isa 15:8; Rev 18:17-19
ye ships: Isa 2:16, Isa 60:9; 1Ki 22:48; 2Ch 9:21; Psa 48:7; Eze 27:25
for it is: Isa 15:1; Jer 25:10-11; Rev 18:22-23
the land: Isa 23:12; Num 24:24; Jer 2:10; Eze 27:6; Dan 11:30