The Pulpit Commentary on Ezekiel 26:5

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

It shall be a place for the spreading of nets, etc. The prediction is repeated in Ezekiel 26:14, and after many chances and changes, apparent revival followed by another period of decay, the present condition of Tyre strikingly corresponds with it.

The travelers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries report that "its inhabitants are only a few poor wretches that harbor in vaults and subsist upon fishing"; that the number of those inhabitants was "only ten, Turks and Christians"; that there were, a little later on, "fifty or sixty poor faro nee.

During the present century there has been a partial revival, and Porter, in 1858, estimates its population at from three to four thousand. The present state of its harbor, as compared with that of Beyrout, is against any future expansion of its commerce ('Dict.

Bible,' s.v. "Tyre").

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