tyre-d out
We've already spent some time talking about a Biblical city named
It was
attitudes like these (among other things) that eventually got the people of
"Therefore the Lord God
says: 'I stand against you,
Tyre shall become the prey of many nations, and her mainland city shall perish by the sword. Then they shall know I am the Lord.'For the Lord God says: 'I will bring Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon-- the king of kings from the north-- against Tyre with a great army and cavalry and chariots.
First he will destroy your suburbs;
then he will attack your mainland city by building a siege wall and raising a
roof of shields against it. He will set up battering rams against your walls
and with sledgehammers demolish your forts. The hoofs of his cavalry will choke
the city with dust, and your walls will shake as the horses gallop through your
broken gates, pulling chariots behind them.
Horsemen will occupy every street in the city; they will butcher your people, and your famous, huge pillars will topple. They will plunder all your riches and merchandise and break down your walls. They will destroy your lovely homes and dump your stones and timber and even your dust into the sea.
I will stop the music of your
songs. No more will there be the sound of harps among you. I will make your
island a bare rock, a place for fishermen to spread their nets. You will never
be rebuilt, for I, the Lord, have spoken it. So says the Lord'" (Ezekiel 26:3-14).
Pretty serious, huh? Now you may recall from last time that the city of
Now there is a good reason why The Doctor has quoted the lengthy prophecy seen above. You see, there is something very interesting within these verses but it's easy to miss if you aren't reading carefully.
Verse 7 tells us, "I
will bring Nebuchadnezzar, king of
- "...he will
destroy your suburbs; then he will attack your mainland
city..." (Verse 8).
- "He will
set up battering rams against your walls..." (Verse 9).
- "The hoofs of his
cavalry will choke the city with dust..." (Verse 10, emphasis
added to all).
But now look the slight change that comes along in Verse 12…
- "They will
plunder all your riches and merchandise and break down your walls. They
will destroy your lovely homes and dump your stones and timber and even
your dust into the sea" (emphasis added).
Did you notice that the words of this prediction change from singular to
plural? If you think that this means something important then you're absolutely
right. It means that the destruction of
So with that bit of background, here's the story of how God's Word came to
pass just as the Bible said it would...
"For the Lord God says: 'I
will bring Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon-- the king of kings from the north--
against Tyre with a great army and cavalry and chariots'" (Ezekiel 26:7).
Nebuchadnezzar is well-known to many people as the man who took three young
guys who honored God and tried to make them bow down before a 90 ft. (27 m)
gold statue (see Daniel chapter 3 for the whole story). But what is less known
about Nebuchadnezzar is that he was also one of the major military commanders
of his time. As leader of the Babylonian Empire, Nebuchadnezzar conquered many
of the surrounding areas (including the nation of
During the course of his conquests, Nebuchadnezzar eventually came up
against the city of
This presented a real problem for Nebuchadnezzar. While Nebuchadnezzar had a
terrific army, one thing that he lacked was a navy that could sail out to the
island city of
So now the mainland city of
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