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Tyndale Open Study Notes on Isaiah 23:4

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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Modern study notes
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23:4 Part of the great port city of Tyre was on an island. The island city was a fortress of the sea, but it fell in 332 BC. • I am childless; I have no sons or daughters: This metaphor was a judgment on Tyre’s colonial ports around the Mediterranean Sea. In the ancient world, to reach old age without having children was considered a terrible fate (see 49:21; 54:1).
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