...Isaiah in foretelling her ruin, speaks of "her antiquity" as "of ancient days." He calls her " the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth." Isa. xxiii. 7, 8. Tyre was a colony from the still older city of Zidon. The prophecies against Tyre...

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...mother-country, as represented by Tyre, was " replenished and made glorious in the midst of the sea" — "whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth." But their voyages extended far beyond the range of their colonies. They are generally supposed to have...

...her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn. 8. Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth ? 9. The Lord of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt...

...Pho3nicians, now foreboding the march of the Babylonian king, who had " taken counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth," at all times were precluded from the desire of conquest by their divided states,* formidable neighbours,...

...days ? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn. Who hath taken this counsel against lyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth ? The Is. xvli. 7, 8. 264 FOR HIS OWN GLOBY. The highways lie waste, the wayfaring-man ceaseth : he hath...

...the joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days," " the merchant city, with strongholds," " the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth." Isaiah xxiii. And Ezekiel calls it, " die abode of seafaring men, the renowned city, strong in the...

...was taken, distinguished both by its antiquity, and 8 Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth ? 8 pollute. its great variety of fortune." Arrian (Lib. ii. cap xvi.) says, that " the Temple of Hercules...

...Carthage, and possessed a powerful fleet ; their capital cities were Sidon and Tyre ; [" Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth." — Isaiah xxiii. 8.] and, being subdued by Alexander, 332 years BC, they remained tributary to his...

...days, whose feet carried her afar 4.' 8 off to sojourn? Who hath purposed this against Tyre, * the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of 9 the earth ? The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to "stain the pride of all glory, to bring into •...