Zechariah 9:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And Tyre made for herself a strong place, and got together silver like dust and the best gold like the earth of the streets.

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Referenced Verses

  • Josh 19:29 : 29 And the limit goes round to Ramah and the walled town of Tyre and Hosah, ending at the sea by Heleb and Achzib;
  • Job 27:16 : 16 Though he may get silver together like dust, and make ready great stores of clothing;
  • Ezek 28:4-5 : 4 By your wisdom and deep knowledge you have got power for yourself, and put silver and gold in your store-houses: 5 By your great wisdom and by your trade your power is increased, and your heart is lifted up because of your power:
  • Ezek 27:33 : 33 When your goods went out over the seas, you made numbers of peoples full; the wealth of the kings of the earth was increased with your great wealth and all your goods.
  • 2 Sam 24:7 : 7 And to the walled town of Tyre, and to all the towns of the Hivites and the Canaanites: and they went out to the South of Judah at Beer-sheba.
  • 1 Kgs 10:27 : 27 And the king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem and cedars like the sycamore-trees of the lowlands in number.
  • Job 22:24 : 24 And put your gold in the dust, even your gold of Ophir among the rocks of the valleys;
  • Isa 23:8 : 8 By whom was this purposed against Tyre, the crowning town, whose traders are chiefs, whose business men are honoured in the land?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Zech 9:4
    79%

    4 See, the Lord will take away her heritage, overturning her power in the sea; and she will be burned up with fire.

  • Zech 9:2
    78%

    2 As well as Hamath, which is by its limit, and Tyre and Zidon, because they are very wise.

  • Ezek 26:2-5
    4 verses
    77%

    2 Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, Aha, she who was the doorway of the peoples is broken; she is turned over to them; she who was full is made waste;

    3 For this cause the Lord has said, See, I am against you, O Tyre, and will send up a number of nations against you as the sea sends up its waves.

    4 And they will give the walls of Tyre to destruction and have its towers broken: and I will take even her dust away from her, and make her an uncovered rock

    5 She will be a place for the stretching out of nets in the middle of the sea; for I have said it, says the Lord: and her goods will be given over to the nations.

  • Ezek 27:2-4
    3 verses
    76%

    2 And you, son of man, make a song of grief for Tyre;

    3 And say to Tyre, O you who are seated at the doorway of the sea, trading for the peoples with the great sea-lands, these are the words of the Lord: You, O Tyre, have said, I am a ship completely beautiful.

    4 Your builders have made your outlines in the heart of the seas, they have made you completely beautiful.

  • Isa 23:1-10
    10 verses
    76%

    1 The word about Tyre. Let a cry of sorrow go up, O ships of Tarshish, because your strong place is made waste; on the way back from the land of Kittim the news is given to them.

    2 Send out a cry of grief, you men of the sea-land, traders of Zidon, who go over the sea, whose representatives are on great waters;

    3 Who get in the seed of Shihor, whose wealth is the trade of the nations.

    4 Be shamed, O Zidon: for the sea, the strong place of the sea has said, I have not been with child, or given birth; I have not taken care of young men, or kept watch over the growth of virgins.

    5 When the news comes to Egypt they will be bitterly pained at the fate of Tyre.

    6 Go over to Tarshish; give cries of sorrow, O men of the sea-land.

    7 Is this the town which was full of joy, whose start goes back to times long past, whose wanderings took her into far-off countries?

    8 By whom was this purposed against Tyre, the crowning town, whose traders are chiefs, whose business men are honoured in the land?

    9 It was the purpose of the Lord of armies to put pride to shame, to make sport of the glory of those who are honoured in the earth.

    10 Let your land be worked with the plough, O daughter of Tarshish; there is no longer any harbour.

  • Ezek 27:32-33
    2 verses
    75%

    32 And in their weeping they will make a song of grief for you, sorrowing over you and saying, Who is like Tyre, who has come to an end in the deep sea?

    33 When your goods went out over the seas, you made numbers of peoples full; the wealth of the kings of the earth was increased with your great wealth and all your goods.

  • Amos 1:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9 These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Tyre, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they gave up all the people prisoners to Edom, without giving a thought to the brothers' agreement between them.

    10 And I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre, burning up its great houses.

  • Joel 3:4-5
    2 verses
    73%

    4 The sun will be made dark and the moon turned to blood, before the great day of the Lord comes, a day to be feared.

    5 And it will be that whoever makes his prayer to the name of the Lord will be kept safe: for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem some will be kept safe, as the Lord has said, and will be among the small band marked out by the Lord.

  • Ezek 27:7-9
    3 verses
    73%

    7 The best linen with needlework from Egypt was your sail, stretched out to be a flag for you; blue and purple from the sea-lands of Elishah gave you shade.

    8 The people of Zidon and Arvad were your boatmen; the wise men of Zemer were in you; they were guiding your ships;

    9 The responsible men of Gebal and its wise men were in you, making your boards watertight: all the ships of the sea with their seamen were in you trading in your goods.

  • Ezek 27:12
    73%

    12 Tarshish did business with you because of the great amount of your wealth; they gave silver, iron, tin, and lead for your goods.

  • Isa 23:17-18
    2 verses
    71%

    17 And it will be after the end of seventy years, that the Lord will have mercy on Tyre, and she will go back to her trade, acting as a loose woman with all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.

    18 And her goods and her trade will be holy to the Lord: they will not be kept back or stored up; for her produce will be for those living in the Lord's land, to give them food for their needs, and fair clothing.

  • Jer 10:9
    71%

    9 Silver hammered into plates is sent from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the expert workman and of the hands of the gold-worker; blue and purple is their clothing, all the work of expert men.

  • Ezek 26:15
    70%

    15 This is what the Lord has said to Tyre: Will not the sea-lands be shaking at the sound of your fall, when the wounded give cries of pain, when men are put to the sword in you?

  • Ps 45:12
    69%

    12 And the daughters of Tyre will be there with an offering; those who have wealth among the people will be looking for your approval.

  • Isa 23:14-15
    2 verses
    69%

    14 Let a cry of sorrow go up, O ships of Tarshish: because your strong place is made waste.

    15 And it will be in that day that Tyre will go out of mind for seventy years, that is, the days of one king: after the end of seventy years it will be for Tyre as in the song of the loose woman.

  • Job 3:15
    69%

    15 Or with rulers who had gold, and whose houses were full of silver;

  • Nah 3:14
    69%

    14 Get water for the time when you are shut in, make strong your towns: go into the potter's earth, stamping it down with your feet, make strong the brickworks.

  • Job 22:24
    69%

    24 And put your gold in the dust, even your gold of Ophir among the rocks of the valleys;

  • Nah 2:9
    69%

    9 But Nineveh is like a pool of water whose waters are flowing away; Keep your place, they say; but no one is turning back.

  • Ezek 7:19
    69%

    19 They will put out their silver into the streets, and their gold will be as an unclean thing; their silver and their gold will not be able to keep them safe in the day of the wrath of the Lord; they will not get their desire or have food for their need: because it has been the cause of their falling into sin.

  • Ezek 28:5
    69%

    5 By your great wisdom and by your trade your power is increased, and your heart is lifted up because of your power:

  • Jer 25:22
    69%

    22 And all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the lands across the sea;

  • Ezek 27:25
    69%

    25 Tarshish ships did business for you in your goods: and you were made full, and great was your glory in the heart of the seas.

  • Ezek 26:12
    68%

    12 They will take by force all your wealth and go off with the goods with which you do trade: they will have your walls broken down and all the houses of your desire given up to destruction: they will put your stones and your wood and your dust deep in the water.

  • Ezek 28:12
    68%

    12 Son of man, make a song of grief for the king of Tyre, and say to him, This is what the Lord has said: You are all-wise and completely beautiful;

  • Ezek 16:24
    68%

    24 That you made for yourself an arched room in every open place.

  • Ezek 16:31
    68%

    31 For you have made your arched room at the top of every street, and your high place in every open place; though you were not like a loose woman in getting together your payment.

  • Isa 25:12
    68%

    12 And the strong tower of your walls has been broken by him, made low, and crushed even to the dust.

  • 1 Chr 29:4
    68%

    4 Even three thousand talents of gold of Ophir and seven thousand talents of the best silver, for plating the walls of the house: