Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?
The crowning
Merchants
Bible References
Who hath
Deuteronomy 29:24
And all the nations will say, '{Why} has Yahweh done {such a thing} to this land? What [caused] the fierceness of this great anger?'
Jeremiah 50:44
Look, like a lion he comes up from the thickets of the Jordan against {a pastureland by a constantly flowing stream}, so {I will chase them away quickly} from her, and I will appoint whoever [is] chosen over her. For who [is] like me, and who can summon me, and who [is] this shepherd who can stand {before me}?
Revelation 18:8
Because of this her plagues will come in one day-- death and mourning and famine-- and she will be burned up with fire, because the Lord God who passes judgment on her [is] powerful!"
The crowning
Ezekiel 28:2
"Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Because your heart was haughty, and you said, 'I [am] a god; I sit [in the] seat of [the] gods, I sit in [the] heart of [the] seas!' But you are a human, not a god, and you gave your heart to be like [the] heart of a god.
Merchants
Isaiah 10:8
For he says, "[Are] not my commanders altogether kings?
Isaiah 36:9
But how can you drive back {one governor among the least of my master's servants}, when you trust in Egypt for chariots and horsemen?