Rambles in Bible lands . of the water. This was done to suchan extent that nothing was left of the old and onceglorious city. So the second part of the prophecywas just as completely fulfilled, and has remainedfulfilled to this day— Thou shalt be no more :though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never befound again. There is yet another prophecy about thisnew Tyre that was founded on the island which hasalso come to pass. When this island city was at theheight of its prosperity, full of wealth and of people,God said He would make it like the top of a rock,a place to spread nets This pr
Rambles in Bible lands . of the water. This was done to suchan extent that nothing was left of the old and onceglorious city. So the second part of the prophecywas just as completely fulfilled, and has remainedfulfilled to this day— Thou shalt be no more :though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never befound again. There is yet another prophecy about thisnew Tyre that was founded on the island which hasalso come to pass. When this island city was at theheight of its prosperity, full of wealth and of people,God said He would make it like the top of a rock,a place to spread nets This prophecy hasbeen fulfilled as exactly as the other. For long yearspast the island of Tyre has been nothing but a miserable 1 Ezek. xxvi. 14. 262 RAMBLES IN BIBLE LANDS fishing-village. Where its proud palaces once stood, itis now desolate and bare, like the top of a rock. Zidon, or, as its Greek name is, Sidon, means inHebrew fishing, or fishery. We are told much lessabout it than we are told about Tyre, though in early. RUINS OF TEMPLE OF THE SUN AT BAALBEK, SHOWING ANENORMOUS STONE times it was the more important city of the two. Zidonwas the firstborn of It is twice called GreatZidon, which seems to mean the [metropolis 1 Gen. x. 15. 2 Joshua xi. 8 ; xix. 28, JOPPA TO BEYROUT 263 Zidonians is the generic name of all is said to have been helpless because it was farfrom Now, Tyre was twenty miles nearer thanZidon, and, if it had been of equal importance withZidon, would naturally have been mentioned afterwards it appears to have been subordinate toTyre. It is a fine town now, and therefore has notfallen so low as its rival, for that rivals they were welearn from Strabo, who says that in his time 1 whichshould be called the capital of Phoenicia is a matter ofdispute between the inhabitants. The borders of Tyreand Sidon were the only Gentile regions our Saviourever seems to have entered, and there He was only ontheir border
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