4And 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.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which shall devour the palaces thereof.
He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the LORD hath given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy the strong holds thereof.
And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.
And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off without the city into an unclean place: …
For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust; …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-14)This prophecy is dated in the eleventh year, which was the year that Jerusalem was taken, and in the first day of the month , but it is not said what month, some think the month in which Jerusalem was taken, which was the fourth month, others the month after; or perhaps it was the first month, and so it was the first day of the year. Observe here, I. The pleasure with which the Tyrians looked upon…
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