rus 7 and * Zidon 7, though it be very. wiſe o. þ A principal noted Town of Syria, once called Epiphania ; it | was near Neighbour to the Fews, tor 'twas a Boundary of the Land of Promiſe. 4 Shall be ſo near to this Storm which cometh, rhat they ſhall be the worſe for 1t. The Country called by this Name, in which Riblah was, and where the barbarous Murder of many Nobles of the Fews, the Murder of Zedek7ah's Children, and his Eyes were put out; all which Cruelty, and ſuch like, ZHamah muſt ſuffer for, now God rides his Circuit and judgeth. m A famous Mart as ever the World had, on which Ezekie! beftows his 26, 27 and 28 cha), which ſee. n Another Mart, and on the ſame Sea, more ancient than Thras, and as much an Enemy to the Fews, threatned as here, ſo by Ezek. chap. 28. Tyrus, ver. 3. Zidon, ver. 21. which 1cc, o Each of them, 7. e. the People, the Goyernours, and Counſellors of both theſe Cities are ſubtile, and think by Craft to ſave themſelyes; bur this ſhall not be, God derides their Wiſdom, Ezeh. 28. 3.
3 And Tyrus p did build her ſelf a ſtrong hold g,
and * heaped 7. up filver as the duſt s, and fine. gold as« I5,
the mire s of the ſtreets.
pÞ Which was naturally a ſtrong Hold, fituate on a great Rock in the Sea. q Fortified her ſelf mightily, and chen thought her ſelf impregnable. 7 Gather'd Treaſure, and laid jt up, ſo that there was no end of it. s 'Tis a proverbial Speech, and ſpeaks the very rich Stores of their Gold and Silver, by which they might buy their Peace or maintain their War : So that here is Wiſdom, Strength and Treaſure, the Maſter-finews of War, yet all theſe cannot profit them in the Day of their Calamities approaching.
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# Obſerve it, for I tell you truth, though ſtrange, 'twill be ſo. # The Lord will do this, he will eje& and caſt her out of her Inhe- ritance, as the Word in the Heb. and he will inherit her, as the Word alſo bears. God will do both, he will ſeize into his Hand by ſome or other, and ſo put them our of all.. Her Fortifications ſhall not be able to ſecure her Poſſeffion. x The Lord declares how he will do what he threatens againſt Tjrus; where their ſtrength lt- eth, he will break them, take away their Shipping, and then .both- Treaſures will waſte, Trade will fail, and Auxiliaries will not be got- ten. y Tjrus, probably Zidon with her. 4 That is, by the Enemy in the Siege, or at the taking of her. All which was done about An. M. 3672. one hundred eighty five Years after this Prophecy, when Alexander Magnus maſter'd Tyrusat Sea with a Fleet of 190, 9T 200 Ships, took the City, ſlew many Thouſands of them, and as Cur: tis reports, burnt the City»
5 Aſhkelon « ſhall ſee it b, and fear c; Gaza dalio ſhall ſee it , and be very ſorrowful e , and Ekron f: for her expeQation g ſhall be aſhamed h, and the king ſhall periſh : from Gaza, and Aſhkelon ſhall not be un habited &. |
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ro defend themſelves, nor means left. of flying from the Enemy. 4 Another ſtrong Town, a Principality of the Philiſtines, Enemy to Iſrael, which in Nebuchadnezzar's time ſuffered with Tyrus, Zeph. 2. 4. ler, x, and ſhall again fo ſuffer in Alexander's time, as here foretold. # At the news of Tyrus's fall ſhall rake a fright, and tall into forrows
of a travelling Woman, as the word imports. f A City famous tor
idolatry, ſee Zeph. 2. 4. let. d. Shall as much tear and grieve as Aſþ- telsn or Gaza. 8g Her hope thar Tyrus would break Alexander's Power, or hold out againſt it, and be a refuge ro her Citizens, who cou!d
not hope to withſtand the Conquerour. þ Turned into Shame and
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Months Siege, and two flight Wounds received; and finding Betts the King, or Roytelet, adyanced to that Dignity by Darizs, thought good ro put him to-a cruel death, as Curtzus, 1.4. þ 7. e. For ſome Years
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cut off the pride of the Philiſtines 7.
1 Some ſay Alexander Mag. was by Olympias's Confeſſion declared to be a Baſtard, and that he is here pointed at 3 bur I think rather Strangers, who have no Right of Inherirance, yer did dwell here, are meant, cali'd Baſtards, becauſe not the righttul Heirs, but Intruders. m Azotus now a ſtrong Town, a City of the Philiftines, but ſtill of the ſame Temper with the reſt againſt the Fews, and now as hefore, Zeph. 2. 4. muſt ſuffer with them. In theſe ſtrong Ciries did the Philiſlines glory, and boaſt theniſelves, as having been too hard for the Jews, even at their firſt coming to Canaan, who could nor take their Cities from them 3 but now the fataj change is foretold, God will cut off this Pride of theirs, as he did in the times of the Greci- ans, the Seleucide, and the Maccabees.
7 And I will take away his t blood out of his mouth o, 4nd his abominarions from between his teerh p - but he that remaineth 9, even he {þa// be tor our God, and he ſhall be as a governour 7 in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebutre 5.
o Though proud and warlike ' Nations have delighred to ſhed
Blocd, nay ( if ſome judge aright)) to eat the Blood of their ſlain Enemics, vet now God will reſtrain, nay overthrow their Power,