• Tyre
    Insight on the Scriptures, Volume 2
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      MAP: Tyre

      In the days of David and of Solomon, friendly relations had existed between Israel and Tyre. (1Ch 14:1; 1Ki 9:10, 11) But the Tyrians were worshipers of Melkart and Astarte. Tyre was devoted to commerce. As she prospered, she became proud. She became defiant toward Jehovah, and Jehovah’s prophets foretold calamity for Tyre.

  • Tyre
    Insight on the Scriptures, Volume 2

    • Later, Zechariah again foretold ruin for Tyre, but this time it was for the island city.

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      An aerial view of Tyre, with the area around the causeway, which is now considerably filled in

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      Cedars of Lebanon. Hiram king of Tyre supplied cedarwood for the construction of the temple in Jerusalem

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      Trade goods of ancient Tyre: ivory, oil, valuable metals, timber, and fabric dyed reddish-purple

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      Model of a type of trading ship evidently used by ancient Tyre

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      Melkart, one of the gods of ancient Tyre, as depicted on a Tyrian silver tetradrachma (shekel) coin