 | James Talboys Wheeler - Historians - 1855 - 486 pages
...so that she was replenished and made glorious in the midst of the seas.f Zechariah declares that she heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.^ Continental Tyre was taken by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar, after a long siege, about BC 570,... | |
 | John Aiton - 1856 - 488 pages
...Tyre became a flourishing emporium again for all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth, and " heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets." In the year before Christ 332, Tyre was assailed by Alexander the Great, in the midst of his Oriental... | |
 | Thomas Osmond Summers - Phoenicians - 1856 - 192 pages
...efforts made by her for the restoration of her former power. " Tyrus did build herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets. Behold, the Lord will cast her out, and he will smite her power in the sea, and she shall be devoured... | |
 | John Eadie - Bible - 1857 - 870 pages
...border thereby; Tyrus, and Zldon, though It be very wise. And Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, tt Talbot Vatth. xl, 21. Woe unto tbee, Chorazinl woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for If the mighty works, which were... | |
 | James William Gilbart - Logic - 1857 - 414 pages
...princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth.' — ' Tyrus did build herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the street. When the waves went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many people ; thou didst enrich the... | |
 | William King Tweedie - Extinct cities - 1859 - 250 pages
...15) uttered another prediction against Tyre ; and that also was in due time fulfilled, though she had "heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets." Again, Ezekiel (xxvi. 12) had explicitly foretold that men " would lay her stones and her timber and... | |
 | A retired merchant - Business - 1859 - 436 pages
...prophets, in the glowing language of Oriental hyperbolism : "Tyrus did build herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the street." " When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many people; thou didst eurich... | |
 | Lyman Coleman - Bible - 1860 - 218 pages
...skill in the arts, and its immense wealth. Her merchantmen were princes in wealth and power, who had heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets. The elder Hiram had assisted David to build his palace by sending him cedar-trees, carpenters, and... | |
 | LYMAN COLEMAN - 1860 - 192 pages
...skill in the arts, and its immense wealth. Her merchantmen were princes in wealth and power, who had heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets. The elder Hiram had assisted David to build his palace by sending him cedar-trees, carpenters, and... | |
 | 1862 - 942 pages
...again become a flourishing emporium for all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth, " and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets," was assailed by Alexander the Great in the midst of his career of oriental conquest. It sustained a... | |
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And Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets. 
