Nebuchadnezzar besieges Tyre
Nebuchadnezzar besieged the island city of Tyre for thirteen years, as Ezekiel had prophesied, until the city submitted.
I will make you a bare rock. You will be a place for the spreading of nets. You will be built no more; for I Yahweh have spoken it,’ says the Lord Yahweh.
Ezekiel 26:14 (World English Bible)
Ezekiel foretold that Tyre would become a bare rock where fishermen spread their nets. Nebuchadnezzar took the mainland city; the island fortress held out and later submitted. Alexander the Great finished Tyre's destruction in 332 BC by building a causeway with the rubble of the old city.
Places
Ancient witnesses outside the Bible
Historical sources, not Scripture.
- Against Apion 1.21 — the records of Tyre: Nebuchadnezzar besieged Tyre thirteen years under its king Ithobal
- Antiquities 10.11.1 — Philostratus and the Phoenician histories on the same siege
Dating notes
Ussher dates the siege from 584 to 572 BC.