...is thus described in the Holy Scriptures : — " A joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth."— " Tyrus did build herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire...

...days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn. Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth ? The Lord of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the...

...nations. This bond of friendship was soon to be broken. " Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre ? the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth ? The Lord of Hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the...

...time, when his army was well nigh (1) Isa. xxiii. 8. Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth P (2) Ezek. xxvii. (3) Ezek. xxvii. 7- Blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered...

...joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days ?" " Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth if The Lord of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and i Ezik. xx vi. 4. Br Newcome*s...

...crown on his head, a sceptre in his hand, and royal treasures to support his dignity ; for heaven is a crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth, to allude to Isa. xxiii. 8. There the " gates are of pearl, and the street of pure gold," Rev. xxi....

...days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn. Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre ; the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth ? The Lord of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the...

...Isaiah in foretelling her ruin, speaks of "her antiquity" as "of ancient days." He calls her " the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth." Isa. xxiii. 7, 8. Tyre was a colony from the still older city of Zidon. The prophecies against Tyre...

...mother-country, as represented by Tyre, was " replenished and made glorious in the midst of the sea" — "whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth." But their voyages extended far beyond the range of their colonies. They are generally supposed to have...

...Pho3nicians, now foreboding the march of the Babylonian king, who had " taken counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth," at all times were precluded from the desire of conquest by their divided states,* formidable neighbours,...