DAR
This is patently false. Nebuchadnezzar not only failed to
destroy Tyre but was not even able to capture it.
The New Encyclopedia Britannica (Micropedia, vol. 10) gives
this with regard to the history of Tyre:
"...and in 585-573 (B.C.) it successfully withstood a
prolonged siege by the Babylonian King Nebuchadrezzar II"
(p.223).
The Encyclopedia Americana (Vol. 27 1984) says:
"The neo-Babylonian conqueror, Nebucha-dnezzar II,
subjected the island to a 13-year siege (585-572) without
success" (p. 331)
As Farrell pointed out, Ezekiel admits this in chapter 29:18,
"Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his
army to serve a great service against Tyrus: every head was
made bald, and every shoulder was peeled: yet had he no
wages, nor his army, for Tyrus, for the service that he had
served against it:"
cheers,
Darrel
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Wallace B. Fleming in his "The History of Tyre"
(1915), says:
"At the present time Tyre has a population of about
six thousand five hundred people, of whom
approximately one half are Moslems; the rest are
Christians and Jews. It is the seat of a Kadi and a
Greek Archbishop. Strangers find lodgings at a Latin
monastery. The Moslems have primary and secondary
schools for boys. The Franciscans and Sisters of St.
Joseph have convents and schools; the United and the
Orthodox Greeks also have schools. The British
Syrian Mission has a boy's school, a girl's school, a
school for the blind and Sunday schools. The
Maronites, affiliated with the Roman Catholic
Church, have an archbishop, and the United Greek
Church and the Orthodox Greek Church each have a
bishop here. THE TOWN OCCUPIES ABOUT
HALF THE FORMER ISLAND AND LAYS
AROUND THE HARBOR TO THE NORTH. The
houses are small, the streets are narrow, crooked and
filthy. The area of the island is about 142 acres
ALMOST AS EXTENSIVE AS IN ANCIENT
TIMES. THE WESTERN AND SOUTHERN HALF
OF THE ISLAND, except the Moslem cemetery, IS
GIVEN UP TO CULTIVATION AND
PASTURAGE. (--THE HISTORY of TYRE,
Columbia University Press: NY, 1915. pg. 129.)
This is the place that was supposed to experience:
"...thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon; THOU
SHALT BE BUILT NO MORE: for I the LORD have
spoken it,... I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities
THAT ARE NOT INHABITED;... THAT THOU BE NOT
INHABITED;" Ezek. 26: 14, 19, 20
Looks like Walid swung his little smooth stone and bonked
himself in the head.