Skip to content

Tyre

52 verses · 2 known names

Also known as: Tyrus

33.2700, 35.1900 View on Google Maps

Verses Mentioning Tyre

Filter by Book
  1. They shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock.

  2. For thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will bring on Tyre Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and a company, and many people.

  3. Thus says the Lord GOD to Tyre: shall not the islands shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, when the slaughter is made in your midst?

  4. You, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre;

  5. and tell Tyre, you who dwell at the entry of the sea, who are the merchant of the peoples to many islands, thus says the Lord GOD: You, Tyre, have said, I am perfect in beauty.

  6. The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers: your wise men, Tyre, were in you, they were your pilots.

  7. In their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for you, and lament over you, saying, Who is there like Tyre, like her who is brought to silence in the midst of the sea?

  8. Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord GOD: Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet you are man, and not God, though you set your heart as the heart of God—

  9. Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and tell him, Thus says the Lord GOD: You seal up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

  10. Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was worn; yet had he no wages, nor his army, from Tyre, for the service that he had served against it.

  11. “Yes, and what are you to me, Tyre, and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Will you repay me? And if you repay me, I will swiftly and speedily return your repayment on your own head.

  12. Thus says the LORD: “For three transgressions of Tyre, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they delivered up the whole community to Edom, and didn’t remember the brotherly covenant;

  13. but I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre, and it will devour its palaces.”

  14. and Hamath, also, which borders on it; Tyre and Sidon, because they are very wise.

  15. Tyre built herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver like the dust, and fine gold like the mire of the streets.

  16. “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

  17. But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you.

  18. Yeshua went out from there, and withdrew into the region of Tyre and Sidon.

  19. from Jerusalem, from Idumaea, beyond the Jordan, and those from around Tyre and Sidon. A great multitude, hearing what great things he did, came to him.

  20. From there he arose, and went away into the borders of Tyre and Sidon. He entered into a house, and didn’t want anyone to know it, but he couldn’t escape notice.

  21. Again he departed from the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and came to the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the region of Decapolis.

  22. He came down with them, and stood on a level place, with a crowd of his disciples, and a great number of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases;

  23. “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

  24. But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the judgment than for you.

  25. Now Herod was very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon. They came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus, the king’s personal aide, their friend, they asked for peace, because their country depended on the king’s country for food.