15And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.
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And all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the isles which are beyond the sea,
And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyrus, and to the king of Zidon, by the hand of the messengers which come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah; …
And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.
For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-18)Here is, I. The time fixed for the continuance of the desolations of Tyre, which were not to be perpetual desolations: Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years , Isa. 23:15. So long it shall lie neglected and buried in obscurity. It was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar much about the time that Jerusalem was, and lay as long as it did in its ruins. See the folly of that proud ambitious conqueror. What the…
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