Torrey's New Topical Textbook
Tyre.
Antiquity of @Isa 23:7; Jos 19:29.
Called
Insular position of @Eze 26:17; 27:4,25.
Strongly fortified @Jos 19:29; 2Sa 24:7; Eze 26:17; Zec 9:3.
Governed by kings @1Ki 5:1; Jer 25:22.
Celebrated for
Soldiers of, supplied by Persia, &c @Eze 27:10,11.
Inhabitants of
Often confederated against the Jews and rejoiced in their calamities @Ps 83:7; Eze 26:2; Am 1:9.
David and Solomon formed alliances with @1Ki 5:1; 2Ch 2:3.
Supplied
The Jews condemned for purchasing from the people of, on the Sabbath @Ne 13:16.
Christ
Propitiated the favour of Herod @Ac 12:20.
Prophecies respecting
Envy against the Jews a cause of its destruction. @Eze 26:2.
Pride a cause of its destruction. @Eze 28:2-6.
To be destroyed by the king of Babylon. @Isa 23:13,14; Jer 27:3,6; Eze 26:7-13.
Inhabitants of, to emigrated to other countries. @Isa 23:6,12.
To be scraped as the top of a rock, and to be a place for the spreading nets. @Eze 26:3-5,14.
The king of Babylon to be rewarded with the spoil of Egypt for his service against. @Eze 29:18-20.
To lie waste and be forgotten for seventy years. @Isa 23:15.
Its restoration to commercial greatness after seventy years. @Isa 23:16,17.
Its second destruction by the Macedonians. @Eze 27:32; 28:7,8,18; Zec 9:2-4.
The ruins of the first city to be employed in making a causeway to effect the destruction of insular Tyre. @Eze 26:12.
Never to recover its greatness. @Eze 26:21.
Its inhabitants to be sold as slaves, as a recompence for their selling the Jews. @Joe 3:4-8.
All nations to be terrified at its destruction. @Eze 26:15-18; 27:29-36; Zec 9:5.
To participated in the blessings of the gospel. @Ps 45:12; Isa 23:18.
Unbelief.
Unicorn.
Generally had a single horn @Ps 92:10.
Sometimes found with two horns @De 33:17.
Described as
The young of, remarkable for agility @Ps 29:6.
Illustrative
Of God as the strength of Israel. @Nu 23:22; 24:8.
Of the wicked. @Isa 34:7.
(Horns of,) of the strength of the descendants of Joseph. @De 33:17.
(Horns of,) of the strength of powerful enemies. @Ps 22:21.
(The position of its horns,) of the exaltation of saints. @Ps 92:10.
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