Isaiah 23:13-15
1599 Geneva Bible
13 Behold the land of the Chaldeans: this was no people: [a]Assyria founded it by the inhabitants of the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof: they raised the palaces thereof, and he [b]brought it to ruin.
14 Howl ye ships of Tarshish, for your [c]strength is destroyed.
15 And in that day shall Tyre be forgotten seventy years (according to the years of one King) at the end of [d]seventy years shall Tyre [e]sing as an harlot.
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- Isaiah 23:13 The Chaldeans which dwelt in tents in the wilderness, were gathered by the Assyrians into cities.
- Isaiah 23:13 The people of the Chaldeans destroyed the Assyrians: whereby the Prophet meaneth, that seeing the Chaldeans were able to overcome the Assyrians which were so great a nation, much more shall these two nations of Chaldea and Assyria be able to overthrow Tyre.
- Isaiah 23:14 That is, Tyre by whom ye are enriched.
- Isaiah 23:15 Tyre shall lie destroyed seventy years which he calleth the reign of one King, or a man’s age.
- Isaiah 23:15 Shall use all craft and subtlety to entice men again unto her.
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