Ezekiel 26:3
“Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up.”
King James Version
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Many nations brought against Tyre as the sea casteth up its waves — a city broken by empire after empire, and the most closely contested fulfillment in the catalogue.
Fulfillment References
🏛 Nebuchadnezzar 585 BC 🏛 Alexander the Great 332 BC
Archaeological & Historical Evidence
Alexander literally scraped Tyre's rubble into the sea to build a causeway — confirmed by Arrian's Anabasis Alexandri and modern marine archaeology.
How Traditions Read This Prophecy
JewishHistorical multi-stage fulfillment over centuries.
CatholicFulfilled by Nebuchadnezzar (mainland) and Alexander the Great (island) — scraped literally bare.
ProtestantOne of the most detailed and remarkably fulfilled prophecies in Scripture.
Academicv.14 ('never rebuilt') is complicated by Tyre's partial survival as a city.
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