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Destruction of Tyre

Nebuchadnezzar besieged mainland Tyre for 13 years. In 332 BC, Alexander the Great literally scraped the ruins of the mainland city into the sea to build a causeway to the island fortress, then destroyed the city. Tyre became a fishing village on bare rock.

Fulfillment Notes

- Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica 17.40-46 - Arrian, Anabasis 2.16-24 - Quintus Curtius Rufus, History of Alexander 4.2-4

Key Hebrew Terms

צוֹר (tsor, H6865); סַכָּל (sakal, H5500); גְדוּדִים (gedudim, H1416); יָרַד (yarad, H3381)

Linked Verses (17)

Ezekiel 26:3 source
KJV

Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up.

Ezekiel 26:4 source
KJV

And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock.

Ezekiel 26:5 source
KJV

It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD: and it shall become a spoil to the nations.

Ezekiel 26:6 source
KJV

And her daughters which are in the field shall be slain by the sword; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

Ezekiel 26:7 source
KJV

For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and much people.

Ezekiel 26:8 source
KJV

He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field: and he shall make a fort against thee, and cast a mount against thee, and lift up the buckler against thee.

Ezekiel 26:9 source
KJV

And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.

Ezekiel 26:10 source
KJV

By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach.

Ezekiel 26:11 source
KJV

With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy streets: he shall slay thy people by the sword, and thy strong garrisons shall go down to the ground.

Ezekiel 26:12 source
KJV

And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water.

Ezekiel 26:13 source
KJV

And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard.

Ezekiel 26:14 source
KJV

And I will make thee like the top of a rock: thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the LORD have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.

Ezekiel 27:32 source
KJV

And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee, saying, What city is like Tyrus, like the destroyed in the midst of the sea?

Ezekiel 27:33 source
KJV

When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many people; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise.

Ezekiel 27:34 source
KJV

In the time when thou shalt be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters thy merchandise and all thy company in the midst of thee shall fall.

Ezekiel 27:35 source
KJV

All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, and their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in their countenance.

Ezekiel 27:36 source
KJV

The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt be any more.

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