Introduction
BURDEN OF TYRE.
This is the last of the prophecies by Isaiah relating to the heathen. Tyre and Zidon, cities of Phoenicia, were associated, being only twenty miles apart. Tyre was the chief city, the commercial mart of the world, at that time. By her maritime wealth she had become proud and oppressive. She cultivated base idolatries, and thus needed reproof such as this prediction offers.
A slight notice of Tyre’s history and fate must suffice. Sieges against her were made by different enemies: by Shalmanezer B.C. 720, without success; by Nebuchadnezzar, with no known result; by Alexander, with temporary conquest, though he struck gradual death into her commerce when he built Alexandria; finally by the Saracens in 1290. Much of the chapter will be hard of explanation unless scope for the fulfilment of its prediction be assumed.
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