Zechariah 9:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

And Tyre built herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver like dust, and fine gold like the dirt of the streets.

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  • Josh 19:29 : 29 And then the coast turned to Ramah, and to the strong city Tyre; and the coast turned to Hosah; and its outgoings were at the sea from the coast to Achzib:
  • Job 27:16 : 16 Though he heaps up silver as the dust, and prepares clothing as the clay;
  • Ezek 28:4-5 : 4 With your wisdom and with your understanding you have gained riches for yourself, and gathered gold and silver into your treasures: 5 By your great wisdom and by your trading you have increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches:
  • Ezek 27:33 : 33 When your wares went forth out of the seas, you filled many people; you enriched the kings of the earth with the multitude of your riches and of your 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, even to Beersheba.
  • 1 Kgs 10:27 : 27 And the king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar made he as plentiful as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland.
  • Job 22:24 : 24 Then you shall lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.
  • Isa 23:8 : 8 Who has taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the honorable of the earth?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Zech 9:4
    79%

    4Behold, the Lord will cast her out, and will strike her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire.

  • Zech 9:2
    78%

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

  • Ezek 26:2-5
    4 verses
    77%

    2Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, 'Aha, she is broken, that was the gate of the peoples; she has turned to me; I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste.'

    3Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against you, as the sea causes 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 like the top of a rock.

    5It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea, for I have spoken it, says the Lord GOD; and it shall become a spoil to the nations.

  • Ezek 27:2-4
    3 verses
    76%

    2Now, you son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyre;

    3And say to Tyre, O you who are situated at the entry of the sea, a merchant of the peoples for many islands, Thus says the Lord GOD; O Tyre, you have said, I am of perfect beauty.

    4Your borders are in the midst of the seas, your builders have perfected your beauty.

  • Isa 23:1-10
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    76%

    1The burden concerning Tyre. Wail, you ships of Tarshish; for it is destroyed, so there is no house, no entrance: from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them.

    2Be silent, you inhabitants of the island; you whom the merchants of Zidon, that cross over the sea, have filled.

    3And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is a marketplace of nations.

    4Be ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea has spoken, even the strength of the sea, saying, I do not travail, nor bring forth children, neither do I rear young men, nor raise virgins.

    5As at the report concerning Egypt, so they shall be greatly pained at the report of Tyre.

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

    7Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is from ancient days? her own feet shall carry her far away to sojourn.

    8Who has taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the honorable of the earth?

    9The LORD of hosts has purposed it, to mar the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.

    10Flow through your land like a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more restraint.

  • Ezek 27:32-33
    2 verses
    75%

    32And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for you, and lament over you, saying, What city is like Tyre, like the one destroyed in the midst of the sea?

    33When your wares went forth out of the seas, you filled many people; you enriched the kings of the earth with the multitude of your riches and of your merchandise.

  • Amos 1:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9Thus says the LORD; For three transgressions of Tyre, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and did not remember the brotherly covenant:

    10But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre, which shall devour its palaces.

  • Joel 3:4-5
    2 verses
    73%

    4Yes, and what are you to me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the coasts of Philistia? Do you want to repay me a recompense? And if you repay me, swiftly and speedily I will return your recompense upon your own head;

    5Because you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my precious pleasant things.

  • Ezek 27:7-9
    3 verses
    73%

    7Fine linen with embroidered work from Egypt was what you spread forth to be your sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was what covered you.

    8The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were your mariners: your wise men, O Tyre, who were in you, were your pilots.

    9The elders of Gebal and its wise men were in you, your caulkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in you to occupy your merchandise.

  • Ezek 27:12
    73%

    12Tarshish was your merchant because of the multitude of all kinds of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in your markets.

  • Isa 23:17-18
    2 verses
    71%

    17And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall return to her wages, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.

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

  • Jer 10:9
    71%

    9Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple are their clothing: they are all the work of skilled men.

  • Ezek 26:15
    70%

    15Thus says the Lord GOD to Tyre: Shall not the isles shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in your midst?

  • Ps 45:12
    69%

    12And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall seek your favor.

  • Isa 23:14-15
    2 verses
    69%

    14Wail, you ships of Tarshish: for your strength 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 shall Tyre sing as a harlot.

  • 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, fortify your strongholds: go into clay and tread the mortar, make strong the brick kiln.

  • Job 22:24
    69%

    24Then you shall lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.

  • Nah 2:9
    69%

    9Take the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for there is no end of the store and glory out of all the pleasant furniture.

  • Ezek 7:19
    69%

    19They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed; their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD; they shall not satisfy their souls, nor fill their stomachs, because it is the stumbling block of their iniquity.

  • Ezek 28:5
    69%

    5By your great wisdom and by your trading you have increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches:

  • Jer 25:22
    69%

    22And all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the coastlands which are beyond the sea,

  • Ezek 27:25
    69%

    25The ships of Tarshish sang of you in your market: and you were replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas.

  • Ezek 26:12
    68%

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

  • Ezek 28:12
    68%

    12Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyre, and say to him, Thus says the Lord GOD; You seal up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

  • Ezek 16:24
    68%

    24That you have also built yourself an eminent place, and have made yourself a high place in every street.

  • Ezek 16:31
    68%

    31In that you build your eminent place at the head of every way, and make your high place in every street; and have not been as a harlot, that scorns payment;

  • Isa 25:12
    68%

    12And the fortress of the high fort of your walls will He bring down, lay low, and bring 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, to overlay the walls of the houses.