. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . the living. But, ofcourse, it is the Tyre that then was, which is meant—theproud imperial mistress of the seas; as such, she was tocease to have a local habitation and a name in the earth ;she was to be found only among the departed. That thereshould still be a Tyre on the same spot where the ancientcity stood, is nothing against the description: for thispoor and shrivelled is no loneer the Tyre of theprophet—that is gone, never to return again (Fbn. onEz. xxvi.). TYR in the history of Tyre, 1,879 years after the captureof Jerusalem by Nebuch
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . the living. But, ofcourse, it is the Tyre that then was, which is meant—theproud imperial mistress of the seas; as such, she was tocease to have a local habitation and a name in the earth ;she was to be found only among the departed. That thereshould still be a Tyre on the same spot where the ancientcity stood, is nothing against the description: for thispoor and shrivelled is no loneer the Tyre of theprophet—that is gone, never to return again (Fbn. onEz. xxvi.). TYR in the history of Tyre, 1,879 years after the captureof Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar ; and Tyre has notyet recovered from the blow. In May, 1751, Has-selquist found there about ten inhabitants, Turksand Christians, who lived by fishing. Since the be- uca H43 ginning of the present century there has been a par-tial revival of prosperity. But it has been visitedat different times during the last thirty years byBiblical scholars, Robinson, Stanley, Renan, &c,who all concur in the account of its general aspect. Ruins of TyTe.—From Caasaa, Yoyap. Pitloresque de la Sjrie.—(Fbn.) of desolation. Its great inferiority to Beirut forreceiving vessels suited to the requirements of mod-ern navigation will always prevent Tyre from be-coming again the most important commercial cityon the Syrian coast.—The question whether Tyrewas actually taken by Nebuchadnezzar after histhirteen years siege has been keenly , Winer, and Hitzig decide it in the nega-tive, while Hengstenberg, Havernick, Fairbairn, &c,support the other side. Assuming, with Movers,that Tyre, as well as the rest of Phenicia, submittedat last to Nebuchadnezzar, the following points maybe observed respecting the supposed capture:—(1.)The evidence of Ezekiel, a contemporary, seems tobe against it. The obvious inference from Ez. is that, however great the exertions of the armymay have been in digging intrenchments or in cast-ing up earthworks, the siege was unsuccessful.
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