[294] Ezekiel, ch. xxvii.
[295] So we interpret, “Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, were thy merchants; they traded in the persons of men.”—Ezekiel xxvii. 13. Thank Heaven! a similar iniquity has been done away with in this country, by an act of generosity not to be paralleled in the history of the world.—Twenty millions of money!
[296] The sacred writings often speak of Tyre as an island. “Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou, whom the merchants of Zidon that pass over the sea have replenished. Pass over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle. Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days?”—Chap, xxiii. verses 2, 6, 7. In Ezekiel, ch. xxviii. ver. 2, “Is it in the midst of the seas?”
[297] “And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the Lord will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire. (xxiii. 17.) And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the Lord; it shall not be treasured nor laid up: for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the Lord, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.” (v. 18.)
[298] This was foretold by Zechariah, ch. ix. 3, 4.
[299] B. C. 332.
[300] Diodorus. Arrian says thirty thousand.
[301] Vincent’s Periplus, v. ii, 528.
[302] “And it shall come to pass, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years.”—Isaiah, ch. xxiii. ver. 15.
[303] “Her merchandize and her hire shall be holiness to the Lord; it shall not be treasured or laid up; for her merchandize shall be for them that dwell before the Lord.”—Isaiah, ch. xxiii. ver. 18.