Zechariah 9:3

American Standard Version (1901)

And Tyre did build herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.

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  • Josh 19:29 : 29 and the border turned to Ramah, and to the fortified city of Tyre; and the border turned to Hosah; and the goings out thereof were at the sea by the region of Achzib; [
  • Job 27:16 : 16 Though he heap up silver as the dust, And prepare raiment as the clay;
  • Ezek 28:4-5 : 4 by thy wisdom and by thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures; 5 by thy great wisdom [and] by thy traffic hast thou increased thy riches, and thy heart is lifted up because of thy riches;--
  • Ezek 27:33 : 33 When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many peoples; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise.
  • 2 Sam 24:7 : 7 and came to the stronghold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites; and they went out to the south of Judah, at Beer-sheba.
  • 1 Kgs 10:27 : 27 And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycomore-trees that are in the lowland, for abundance.
  • Job 22:24 : 24 And lay thou [thy] treasure in the dust, And [the gold of] Ophir among the stones of the brooks;
  • Isa 23:8 : 8 Who hath purposed this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honorable of the earth?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Zech 9:4
    79%

    4Behold, the Lord will dispossess her, and he will smite her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire.

  • Zech 9:2
    78%

    2and Hamath, also, which bordereth thereon; Tyre and Sidon, because they are very wise.

  • Ezek 26:2-5
    4 verses
    77%

    2Son of man, because that Tyre hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken [that was] the gate of the peoples; she is turned unto me; I shall be replenished, now that she is laid waste:

    3therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I am against thee, O Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth its waves to come up.

    4And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock.

    5She shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea; for I have spoken it, saith the Lord Jehovah; and she shall become a spoil to the nations.

  • Ezek 27:2-4
    3 verses
    76%

    2And thou, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre;

    3and say unto Tyre, O thou that dwellest at the entry of the sea, that art the merchant of the peoples unto many isles, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Thou, O Tyre, hast said, I am perfect in beauty.

    4Thy borders are in the heart of the seas; thy builders have perfected thy beauty.

  • Isa 23:1-10
    10 verses
    76%

    1The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Kittim it is revealed to them.

    2Be still, ye inhabitants of the coast, thou whom the merchants of Sidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.

    3And on great waters the seed of the Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue; and she was the mart of nations.

    4Be thou ashamed, O Sidon; for the sea hath spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying, I have not travailed, nor brought forth, neither have I nourished young men, nor brought up virgins.

    5When the report cometh to Egypt, they shall be sorely pained at the report of Tyre.

    6Pass ye over to Tarshish; wail, ye inhabitants of the coast.

    7Is this your joyous [city], whose antiquity is of ancient days, whose feet carried her afar off to sojourn?

    8Who hath purposed this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honorable of the earth?

    9Jehovah of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.

    10Pass through thy land as the Nile, O daughter of Tarshish; there is no restraint any more.

  • Ezek 27:32-33
    2 verses
    75%

    32And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee, [saying], Who is there like Tyre, like her that is brought to silence in the midst of the sea?

    33When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many peoples; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise.

  • Amos 1:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Tyre, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they delivered up the whole people to Edom, and remembered not the brotherly covenant:

    10but I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.

  • Joel 3:4-5
    2 verses
    73%

    4Yea, and what are ye to me, O Tyre, and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? will ye render me a recompense? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompense upon your own head.

    5Forasmuch as ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly precious things,

  • Ezek 27:7-9
    3 verses
    73%

    7Of fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was thy sail, that it might be to thee for an ensign; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was thine awning.

    8The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were thy rowers: thy wise men, O Tyre, were in thee, they were thy pilots.

    9The old men of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to deal in thy merchandise.

  • Ezek 27:12
    73%

    12Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded for thy wares.

  • Isa 23:17-18
    2 verses
    71%

    17And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that Jehovah will visit Tyre, and she shall return to her hire, and shall play the harlot with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.

    18And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to Jehovah: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before Jehovah, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.

  • Jer 10:9
    71%

    9There is silver beaten into plates, which is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the artificer and of the hands of the goldsmith; blue and purple for their clothing; they are all the work of skilful men.

  • Ezek 26:15
    70%

    15Thus saith the Lord Jehovah to Tyre: shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall, when the wounded groan, when the slaughter is made in the midst of thee?

  • Ps 45:12
    69%

    12And the daughter of Tyre [shall be there] with a gift; The rich among the people shall entreat thy favor.

  • Isa 23:14-15
    2 verses
    69%

    14Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for your stronghold is laid waste.

    15And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years it shall be unto Tyre as in the song of the harlot.

  • Job 3:15
    69%

    15Or with princes that had gold, Who filled their houses with silver:

  • Nah 3:14
    69%

    14Draw thee water for the siege; strengthen thy fortresses; go into the clay, and tread the mortar; make strong the brickkiln.

  • Job 22:24
    69%

    24And lay thou [thy] treasure in the dust, And [the gold of] Ophir among the stones of the brooks;

  • Nah 2:9
    69%

    9Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold; for there is no end of the store, the glory of all goodly furniture.

  • Ezek 7:19
    69%

    19They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be as an unclean thing; their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of Jehovah: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels; because it hath been the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

  • Ezek 28:5
    69%

    5by thy great wisdom [and] by thy traffic hast thou increased thy riches, and thy heart is lifted up because of thy riches;--

  • Jer 25:22
    69%

    22and all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the isle which is beyond the sea;

  • Ezek 27:25
    69%

    25The ships of Tarshish were thy caravans for thy merchandise: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the heart of the seas.

  • Ezek 26:12
    68%

    12And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise; and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses; and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the waters.

  • Ezek 28:12
    68%

    12Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

  • Ezek 16:24
    68%

    24that thou hast built unto thee a vaulted place, and hast made thee a lofty place in every street.

  • Ezek 16:31
    68%

    31in that thou buildest thy vaulted place at the head of every way, and makest thy lofty place in every street, and hast not been as a harlot, in that thou scornest hire.

  • Isa 25:12
    68%

    12And the high fortress of thy walls hath he brought down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.

  • 1 Chr 29:4
    68%

    4even three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, wherewith to overlay the walls of the houses;