Bible verses about Tyre
Scripture references about Tyre, organized by subject from the classic topical indexes of Orville Nave and R. A. Torrey.
Tyre in Torrey's Topical Textbook
- Antiquity of: Isa 23:7; Jos 19:29
- CALLED
- The daughter of Zidon: Isa 23:12
- The daughter of Tarshish: Isa 23:10
- The joyous city: Isa 23:7
- The crowning city: Isa 23:8
- The renowned city: Eze 26:17
- 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
- Its beauty: Eze 27:3,4
- Its commerce: Isa 23:2,3; Eze 27:3,12-25
- Its wealth: Eze 27:33; 28:4,5; Zec 9:3
- Strength and beauty of its ships: Eze 27:5-7
- Soldiers of, supplied by Persia, &c: Eze 27:10,11
- INHABITANTS OF
- Sea-faring men: Eze 26:17
- Mercantile men: Isa 23:8
- Proud and haughty: Isa 23:9; Eze 28:2,17
- Self-conceited: Eze 28:3-5
- Superstitious: Jer 27:2,3,9
- Wicked: Eze 28:18
- 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
- Seamen for Solomon's navy: 1Ki 9:27; 2Ch 8:18
- A master-builder for the temple: 2Ch 2:7,13
- Stones and timber for building the temple: 1Ki 5:6,9; 2Ch 2:8,9,16
- Timber for rebuilding the temple and city: Ezr 3:7
- The Jews condemned for purchasing from the people of, on the
- Sabbath: Ne 13:16
- CHRIST
- Alluded to the depravity of: Mt 11:21,22
- Visited the coasts of: Mt 15:21; Mr 7:24
- Was followed by many from: Mr 3:8; Lu 6:17
- Paul found disciples at: Ac 21:3,4
- Depended for provision upon Galilee: Ac 12:20
- 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