Lexicon :: Strong's H6865 - ṣōr

Now Hiram the king of Tyre sent messengers to David with cedar trees, carpenters, and stonemasons; and they built a house (palace) for David.

Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon when he heard that they had anointed him king in place of his father, for Hiram had always been a friend of David.

Now King Solomon sent word and brought [fn]Hiram [a skilled craftsman] from Tyre.

Now Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David with cedar timbers, masons and carpenters, to build a house (palace) for him.

Then Solomon sent word to [fn]Hiram king of Tyre, saying, “As you dealt with my father David and sent him cedars to build himself a house in which to live, [please] do the same for me.

Then Hiram, king of Tyre replied in a letter sent to Solomon: “Because the LORD loves His people, He has made you king over them.”

The daughter of Tyre will come with a gift;

The rich among the people will seek your favor.

Gebal and Ammon and Amalek,

Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre.

“I will mention Rahab (Egypt) and Babylon among those who know Me—

Behold, Philistia and Tyre with Ethiopia (Cush)—

‘This one was born there.’”

The [mournful, inspired] oracle ([fn]a burden to be carried) concerning [fn]Tyre:

Wail, O ships of Tarshish,

For Tyre is destroyed, without house, without harbor;

It is reported to them from the land of Cyprus (Kittim).

When the report reaches Egypt,

They will be in agony at the report about Tyre.

Who has planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns,

Whose merchants were princes, whose traders were the honored of the earth?

Now in that day Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, like the days of one king. At the end of seventy years it will happen to Tyre as in the prostitute’s song:

It will come to pass at the end of seventy years that the LORD will remember Tyre. Then she will return to her prostitute’s wages and will play the [role of a] prostitute [by trading] with all the kingdoms on the face of the earth.

Because of the day that is coming

To destroy all the Philistines

And to cut off from Tyre and Sidon

Every ally who remains.

For the LORD is going to destroy the Philistines,

The remnant [still surviving] of the coastland of [fn]Caphtor.

For thus says the Lord GOD, “Behold, I will bring upon Tyre from the north [fn]Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses and chariots and with horsemen and a great army.

Thus says the Lord GOD to Tyre, “Shall not the coastlands shake at the sound of your fall when the wounded groan, when the slaughter occurs in your midst?

“The inhabitants of Sidon and [the island] of Arvad were your oarsmen;

Your skilled and wise men, O Tyre, were with you; they were your pilots.

“In their wailing they will take up a dirge (funeral poem to be sung) for you

And sing a dirge for you:

‘Who is like Tyre,

Like her who is silent [destroyed] in the midst of the sea?

“Because your heart is lifted up

And you have said and thought, ‘I am a god,

I sit in the seat of the gods

In the heart of the seas’;

Yet you are [only] a man [weak, feeble, made of earth] and not God,

Though you [imagine yourself to be more than mortal and] think your mind is as [wise as] the mind of God—

“You had the full measure of perfection and the finishing touch [of completeness],

Full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.

Ephraim, as I have seen,

Is planted in a pleasant [and prosperous] meadow like Tyre;

But Ephraim will bring out his children to the executioner [for slaughter].

“Moreover, what are you to Me, O Tyre and Sidon and all the [five small] regions of Philistia? Will you pay Me back for something [I have supposedly done to you]? Even if you do pay Me back, I will swiftly and speedily return your deed [of retaliation] on your own head.

Thus says the LORD,

“For three transgressions of Tyre and for four (multiplied delinquencies)

I will not reverse its punishment or revoke My word concerning it,

Because they [as middlemen] deported an entire [Jewish] population to Edom

And did not [seriously] remember their covenant of brotherhood.

And Hamath also, which borders on it (Damascus),

Tyre and Sidon, though they are very wise.