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Zakharia 9:3
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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 sonnes, & saide vnto them, be fruitfull and multiplie, and replenishe the earth.
Euery thyng that moueth it selfe, and that liueth, shall be meate for you, euen as the greene hearbe haue I geue you all thinges.
And surely your blood of your lyues wyl I require: at the hande of euery beast wyll I require it, and at the hand of man, at the hande of mans brother wyll I require the life of man.
And God sayde: this is the token of the couenaut which I make betweene me and you, and euery lyuyng creature that is with you, for euer.
And it shall come to passe, that when I bryng a cloude vpon the earth, the bowe also shalbe seene in ye same cloude.
And I wyll thinke vpon my couenaunt whiche is betweene me and you, and euery liuing creature in all fleshe: and it shall no more come to passe, that waters make a fludde to destroy all fleshe.
And he drynkyng of the wyne, was dronken, and vncouered within his tent.
And Ham the father of Chanaan, seeyng the nakednesse of his father, tolde his two brethren without.
And he sayde: cursed be Chanaan, a seruaunt of seruauntes shall he be vnto his brethren.
He sayde moreouer: blessed be the Lord God of Sem, and Chanaan shalbe his seruaunt.
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.