Thematic Bible: Tyrians
Thematic Bible
Commerce » Tyrians
King Hiram of Tyre sent messengers to David, along with cedar logs, carpenters, and stonemasons. They built a palace for David.
Who planned this for royal Tyre, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the dignitaries of the earth?
By your great skill in trade you have increased your wealth, and your heart is proud because of your wealth.
So now order some cedars of Lebanon to be cut for me. My servants will work with your servants. I will pay your servants whatever you say is appropriate, for you know that we have no one among us who knows how to cut down trees like the Sidonians."
Scoffing » Instances of » Tyrians
"Son of man, because Tyre has said about Jerusalem, 'Aha, the gateway of the peoples is broken; it has swung open to me. I will become rich, now that she has been destroyed,'