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Zechariah 9:3
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Tyre is built like a fort. The people there have collected so much silver that it is like dust, and gold is as common as clay.
For Tyre built herself a fortress, And piled up silver like dust, And gold like the mud of the streets.
Tyre has built a strong wall for herself. She has piled up silver like dust and gold like the mud in the streets.
And Tyre built herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.
And Tyre built herself a strong hold, and amassed silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.
For Tyre built herself an [impregnable] stronghold [on an island offshore], And she has heaped up silver like dust And gold like the mire of the streets.
Tyre has built herself a rampart and heaped up silver like dust, and fine gold like the mud of the streets.
Tyre built herself a stronghold, And heaped up silver like the dust, And fine gold like the mire of the streets.
And Tirus bildide his strengthing, and gaderide siluer as erthe, and gold as fen of stretis.
And Tyre did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.
Tyre has built herself a fortress; she has heaped up silver like dust, and gold like the dirt of the streets.
Tyre has built a fortress and piled up silver and gold, as though they were dust or mud from the streets.
And Tyre did build herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.
And Tyre made for herself a strong place, and got together silver like dust and the best gold like the earth of the streets.
Tzor built herself a fortified tower, heaping up silver as if it were dust and fine gold as if it were mud in the streets.
And Tyre hath built herself a stronghold, and hath heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.
And Tyre did build herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.
And Tyrus did builde her selfe a strong hold, and heaped vp siluer as the dust, and fine golde as the myre of the streets.
Tyre has built a strong fortress and has made silver and gold as plentiful as dust in the streets!
For Tyre built a strong tower for herself. She gathered silver like dust, and gold like the dirt of the streets.
Tyre has built itself a rampart, and heaped up silver like dust, and gold like the dirt of the streets.
For Tyrus did build her selfe a strong holde, and heaped vp siluer as the dust, and golde as the myre of the streetes.
Tyre has built herself a stronghold and heaped up silver like dust, and gold like the mire of the streets.
Therefore did Tyre build a stronghold for herself, - and did heap up silver like dust, yea gold, like the mire of the lanes.
And Tyre hath built herself a strong hold, and heaped together silver as earth, and gold as the mire of the streets.
Tyre has built herself a rampart, and heaped up silver like dust, and gold like the dirt of the streets.
Tyrus shall make her selfe strong, heape vp siluer as the sand, and golde as the clay of the streetes.
And Tyrus built strong-holds for herself, and heaped up silver as dust, and gathered gold as the mire of the ways.
Tyre has built fortifications for herself and has piled up so much silver and gold that it is as common as dirt!
Tyre has built herself a fortress;she has heaped up silver like dustand gold like the dirt of the streets.
Tzor built herself a stronghold, And heaped up silver like the dust, And fine gold like the mire of the streets.
Tyre has built a fortification for itself, and it heaped up silver like dust, and gold like the mud of the streets.
And Tyre shall build a fortress for herself, and shall pile up silver like the dust, and gold like the mud of the streets.
And Tyre doth build a bulwark to herself, And doth heap silver as dust, And gold as mire of out-places.
Tyrus shal make hirself stronge, heape vp syluer as the sonde, and golde as the claye of the stretes.
Tyre built herself a fortification and piled up silver like dust and gold like the mud of the streets!
For Tyre built herself a tower, Heaped up silver like the dust, And gold like the mire of the streets.
For Tyre built herself a fortress And piled up silver like dust, And gold like the mire of the streets.
So Tyre built herself a tight fortificationAnd tied up silver like dustAnd fine gold like the mire of the streets.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
build: Joshua 19:29, 2 Samuel 24:7
heaped: 1 Kings 10:27, Job 22:24, Job 27:16, Isaiah 23:8, Ezekiel 27:33, Ezekiel 28:4, Ezekiel 28:5
Reciprocal: Job 3:15 - who filled their houses Isaiah 23:11 - strong holds Ezekiel 26:4 - destroy Ezekiel 26:12 - thy merchandise Ezekiel 27:34 - General Ezekiel 28:3 - thou art Matthew 11:22 - Tyre
Cross-References
And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.
And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:
And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And Tyrus did build herself a strong hold,.... Tyre was built upon a rock, and was a strong fortress itself, from whence it had its name; and, besides its natural defence, it had a wall one hundred and fifty feet high, and its breadth was answerable to its height e; but yet, as it could not defend itself against Alexander the great, who took it; so neither against the Gospel of Christ, which found its way into it, and was mighty to pull down strong holds in a spiritual sense:
and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets; the riches of these cities, especially Tyre, are often made mention of; they were famous for their wealth, being places of great trade and merchandise; see Isaiah 23:2 all which were to be holiness to the Lord, and for the sufficient feeding and durable clothing of them that dwell before him, Isaiah 23:18 his ministers.
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Barnes' Notes on the Bible
And Tyre did build herself a stronghold - She built it for herself, not for God, and trusted to it, not to God, and so its strength brought her the greater fall. The words in Hebrew express yet more. “Tyre” (Zor) literally, “the rock,” “built herself mazor, tower,” a rock-like fort, as it were, a rock upon exceeding strength, binding her together. . “The walls, 150 feet high and of breadth proportionate, compacted of large stones, embedded in gypsum,” seemed to defy an enemy who could only approach her by sea. “In order to make the wall twice as strong they built a second wall ten cubits broad, leaving a space between of five cubits, which they filled with stones and earth.” Yet high walls do not fence in only; they also hem in. Mazor is both “a stronghold” and “a siege.” Wealth and strength, without God, do but invite and embitter the spoiler and the conqueror.”
And she heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets - “Though he heap up silver as the dust,” Job says, “The King” Job 27:16, Solomon, “made silver in Jerusalem as stones” 2 Chronicles 9:27. Through her manifold commerce she gathered to herself wealth, as abundant as the mire and the dust, and as valueless. “Gold and silver,” said a pagan, “are but red and white earth.” Its strength was its destruction. Tyre determined to resist Alexander, , “trusting in the strength of the island, and the stores which they had laid up,” the strength within and without, of which the prophet speaks.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Zechariah 9:3. And Tyrus did build herself — The rock on which Tyre was built was strongly fortified; and that she had abundance of riches has been already seen, Ezekiel 28:1, &c.
