They went to the fortress of Tyre and all the cities of the Hivites and Canaanites. Afterwards, they went to the Negev of Judah at Beer-sheba.
Zechariah 9:3 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Tyre has built herself a fortress; she has heaped up silver like dust and gold like the dirt of the streets. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And Tyre has built herself a stronghold [on an island a half mile from the shore, which seems impregnable], and heaped up silver like dust and fine gold like the mire of the streets. American Standard Version (1901) And Tyre did build herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets. Common English Bible Tyre built a fortress for herself. She piled up silver like dust and gold like mud in the streets, Catholic Public Domain Version And Tyre has built herself a fortress, and she has piled together silver, as if it were soil, and gold, as if it were the mud of the streets. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And Tyre hath built herself a strong hold, and heaped together silver as earth, and gold as the mire of the streets. |
They went to the fortress of Tyre and all the cities of the Hivites and Canaanites. Afterwards, they went to the Negev of Judah at Beer-sheba.
All of King Solomon’s drinking cups were gold, and all the utensils of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. There was no silver, since it was considered as nothing in Solomon’s time,
The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedar as abundant as sycamore in the Judean foothills.
and consign your gold to the dust, the gold of Ophir to the stones in the wadis,
Though he piles up silver like dust and heaps up fine clothing like clay –
He stretched out his hand over the sea; he made kingdoms tremble. The Lord has commanded that the Canaanite fortresses be destroyed.
Who planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose traders are princes, whose merchants are the honoured ones of the earth?
They will take your wealth as spoil and plunder your merchandise. They will also demolish your walls and tear down your beautiful homes. Then they will throw your stones, timber, and soil into the water.
Your wealth, merchandise, and goods, your sailors and captains, those who repair your leaks, those who barter for your goods, and all the warriors on board, with all the other people within you, sink into the heart of the sea on the day of your downfall.
When your merchandise was unloaded from the seas, you satisfied many peoples. You enriched the kings of the earth with your abundant wealth and goods.
Now you are wrecked by the sea in the depths of the waters; your goods and the people within you have gone down.
The Lord says: I will not relent from punishing Tyre for three crimes, even four, because they handed over a whole community of exiles to Edom and broke a treaty of brotherhood.
The boundary then turned to Ramah as far as the fortified city of Tyre; it turned back to Hosah and ended at the Mediterranean Sea, including Mahalab, Achzib,