John Gill's Exposition on Amos 1:10

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, etc.] An enemy to destroy the walls of it: this was done either by Shalmaneser king of the Assyrians, in the times of Eulaeus king of the Tyrians, of whose expedition against it Josephusf66 makes mention: or by Nebuchadnezzar, who took it after thirteen years’ siege of it, in the time of Ithobalusf67: or by Alexander, by whom it was taken, as Curtiusf68 relates, after it had been besieged seven months: which shall devour the palaces thereof; of the governor, the great men and merchants in it. Alexander ordered all to be slain but those that fled to the temples, and fire to be put to the houses; which made it a most desolate place, as the above historian has recorded.

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