Zechariah 9:3

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Tyre has built herself a stronghold and heaped up silver like dust and gold like the dirt in the streets.

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  • Josh 19:29 : 29 The border turned to Ramah and up to the fortified city of Tyre; then it turned to Hosah and ended at the sea. The region included Mahalab, Achzib,
  • Job 27:16 : 16 Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up clothes like clay,
  • Ezek 28:4-5 : 4 By your wisdom and understanding, you have made wealth for yourself, and you have gathered gold and silver into your treasuries. 5 By your great skill in trading, you have increased your wealth, and your heart has grown proud because of your wealth.
  • Ezek 27:33 : 33 When your merchandise went out to the seas, you satisfied many peoples. With your abundant wealth and your goods, you enriched the kings of the earth.
  • 2 Sam 24:7 : 7 They went to the fortress of Tyre and all the cities of the Hivites and the Canaanites. Then they went to the Negev of Judah in Beersheba.
  • 1 Kgs 10:27 : 27 The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as plentiful as sycamore-fig trees in the lowlands.
  • Job 22:24 : 24 and assign your gold to the dust, and the gold of Ophir to the rocks in the ravines,
  • Isa 23:8 : 8 Who has planned this against Tyre, the giver of crowns, whose merchants were princes, whose traders were honored in the earth?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Zech 9:4
    79%

    4But the Lord will dispossess her and strike her power in the sea, and she will be consumed by fire.

  • Zech 9:2
    78%

    2Hamath, also, will border it; Tyre and Sidon, though they are very wise.

  • Ezek 26:2-5
    4 verses
    77%

    2Son of man, because Tyre has said concerning Jerusalem, 'Aha! The gateway of the peoples is broken; it has turned to me. I will be filled now that she lies in ruins.'

    3Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says: 'Behold, I am against you, Tyre, and I will bring many nations against you, like the sea bringing up its waves.'

    4They will destroy the walls of Tyre and demolish her towers. I will scrape away her soil and leave her as bare rock.

    5She will become a drying place for fishing nets in the midst of the sea, for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD. She will become plunder for the nations.

  • Ezek 27:2-4
    3 verses
    76%

    2Now you, son of man, raise a lamentation over Tyre,

    3and say to Tyre, situated at the gateways of the sea, a merchant of peoples to many coastlands: 'Thus says the Lord God: Tyre, you have declared, "I am perfect in beauty."'

    4Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders have perfected your beauty.

  • Isa 23:1-10
    10 verses
    76%

    1This is a message concerning Tyre: Wail, you ships of Tarshish, for your harbor has been destroyed. The news has reached them from the land of Cyprus.

    2Be silent, you inhabitants of the coastland, you merchants of Sidon, whose messengers cross over the sea.

    3On the great waters came the grain of Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, its revenue; it was the marketplace of nations.

    4Be ashamed, Sidon, for the sea has spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying, 'I have neither labored nor given birth; I have not raised young men or brought up virgins.'

    5When the news reaches Egypt, they will writhe in anguish at the report about Tyre.

    6Cross over to Tarshish; wail, you inhabitants of the coastland.

    7Is this your jubilant city, whose origins are from days long ago, whose feet carried her to settle far away?

    8Who has planned this against Tyre, the giver of crowns, whose merchants were princes, whose traders were honored in the earth?

    9The LORD of Hosts has planned it, to defile the pride of all glory, to humble all who are honored on the earth.

    10Overflow your land like the Nile, O daughter of Tarshish; there is no longer any harbor restraining you.

  • Ezek 27:32-33
    2 verses
    75%

    32And they will chant a dirge for you, lamenting, 'Who was ever like Tyre, silenced and destroyed in the midst of the sea?'

    33When your merchandise went out to the seas, you satisfied many peoples. With your abundant wealth and your goods, you enriched the kings of the earth.

  • Amos 1:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9Thus says the LORD: 'For three transgressions of Tyre, and for four, I will not revoke punishment, because they delivered up an entire population to Edom and did not remember their treaty of brotherhood.'

    10So I will send fire upon the wall of Tyre, and it will consume her palaces.

  • Joel 3:4-5
    2 verses
    73%

    4Now, what have you against me, Tyre and Sidon and all the regions of Philistia? Are you repaying me for something I have done? If you are repaying me, I will swiftly and speedily return your recompense upon your own heads.

    5For you took my silver and my gold and carried my precious treasures into your temples.

  • Ezek 27:7-9
    3 verses
    73%

    7Fine embroidered linen from Egypt was your sail, serving as your banner; blue and purple fabric from the coastlands of Elishah was your covering.

    8The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers; your skilled men, O Tyre, were aboard; they served as your sailors.

    9The elders of Gebal and its skilled workers repaired your leaks; all the ships of the sea and their sailors came to deal in your trade.

  • Ezek 27:12
    73%

    12Tarshish traded with you because of your great wealth of goods, exchanging silver, iron, tin, and lead for your wares.

  • Isa 23:17-18
    2 verses
    71%

    17At the end of seventy years, the LORD will attend to Tyre. She will return to her hire and will prostitute herself to all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.

    18Yet her merchandise and her hire will be consecrated to the LORD; it will not be stored or hoarded, but it will provide for those who live in the presence of the LORD—for abundant food and fine clothing.

  • Jer 10:9
    71%

    9Hammered silver is brought from Tarshish and gold from Uphaz—the work of the craftsman and of the goldsmith. Their clothing is blue and purple, all made by skilled workers.

  • Ezek 26:15
    70%

    15This is what the Lord GOD says to Tyre: 'Won't the coastlands tremble at the sound of your downfall, when the wounded groan and slaughter takes place within you?'

  • Ps 45:12
    69%

    12The king will desire your beauty; bow down to him, for he is your lord.

  • Isa 23:14-15
    2 verses
    69%

    14Wail, you ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is destroyed.

    15On that day, Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, the span of a king’s lifetime. At the end of seventy years, Tyre will be like the song of a prostitute.

  • Job 3:15
    69%

    15Or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.

  • Nah 3:14
    69%

    14Draw water for the siege, strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay and tread the mortar; take hold of the brick mold.

  • Job 22:24
    69%

    24and assign your gold to the dust, and the gold of Ophir to the rocks in the ravines,

  • Nah 2:9
    69%

    9Nineveh is like a pool whose water is draining away. 'Stop! Stop!' they cry, but no one turns back.

  • Ezek 7:19
    69%

    19They will throw their silver in the streets, and their gold will be treated as unclean. Their silver and gold will not be able to save them on the day of the LORD's wrath. They cannot satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs with it, for it has caused their stumbling into sin.

  • Ezek 28:5
    69%

    5By your great skill in trading, you have increased your wealth, and your heart has grown proud because of your wealth.

  • Jer 25:22
    69%

    22All the kings of Tyre and all the kings of Sidon; the kings of the coastlands across the sea.

  • Ezek 27:25
    69%

    25The ships of Tarshish carried your goods as your trading fleet. You were filled with merchandise and became glorious in the heart of the seas.

  • Ezek 26:12
    68%

    12'They will plunder your wealth and loot your merchandise. They will break down your walls and destroy your luxurious homes. They will throw your stones, timber, and rubble into the sea.'

  • Ezek 28:12
    68%

    12Son of man, take up a lament concerning the king of Tyre, and say to him, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.

  • Ezek 16:24
    68%

    24You built yourselves a mound and made high places at every street corner.

  • Ezek 16:31
    68%

    31When you built your mounds at the head of every road and made your high places in every street, you were not like a prostitute, because you scorned payment.

  • Isa 25:12
    68%

    12He will demolish the high fortress of your walls, bring it down to the ground, to the very dust.

  • 1 Chr 29:4
    68%

    4This includes three thousand talents of gold from Ophir and seven thousand talents of refined silver to overlay the walls of the buildings.