Bible Verses About Tyre: Strength and beauty of its ships

With fir trees of Sanir they have built thee with all sea planks: they have taken cedars from Libanus to make thee masts.

They have cut thy oars out of the oaks of Basan: and they have made thee benches of Indian ivory and cabins with things brought from the islands of Italy.

Fine broidered linen from Egypt was woven for thy sail, to be spread on thy mast: blue and purple from the islands of Elisa, were made thy covering.