Ezekiel 26:3-6
Therefore, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: "I am your enemy, O Tyre, and I will bring many nations against you, like the waves of the sea crashing against your shoreline. 4 They will destroy the walls of Tyre and tear down its towers. I will scrape away its soil and make it a bare rock! 5 It will be just a rock in the sea, a place for fishermen to spread their nets, for I have spoken, says the Sovereign Lord. Tyre will become the prey of many nations, 6 and its mainland villages will be destroyed by the sword. Then they will know that I am the Lord."
As the capital of Phoenicia (modern Lebanon), Tyre was also the capital city of the Mediterranean culture and commerce trade, with shipping routes as far off as England. They were the model of perfection in their corruption. Powerful, and secure in its massive naval fleet which controlled the Mediterranean world at the time. No prolonded wartime siege could deplete them enough because they pretty much owned the seafaring industries and could easily supply the coastal capital city and fend off a land invasion. Tyre had two harbors. And the island on which the New Tyre, following the destruction caused by Nebuchadnezzar, was built was separated from the mainland by a shallow strait only about 540 yards wide and maybe a half mile offshore.
The Ezekiel prophecy about Tyre is dated in the eleventh year, which was the year that Jerusalem was taken. These prophecies came true in amazing detail. God promised the city would receive a very swift and efficient end under the armies of Nebuchadnezzar, and ultimately completely eliminated by Alexander The Great.
The prophecy of Ezekiel 26:12 came true in literal fashion: “They will break down your walls and demolish your fine houses and throw your stones, timber and rubble into the sea.”
Alexander The Great took all the rubble from the destroyed Tyre capital city left behind by Nebuchadnezzar's army and used it to build a land bridge out to the island Tyre 2 city, and he captured it. They literally scraped the ground of all its soil to use in constructing the causeway. Leaving behind a bald bedrock where the capital city once stood. And to this very day it has never been rebuilt in the place. And it in-fact is used by fishermen to spread and dry their nets.
That's one very precise prophecy.
God keeps his promises.
God said that “many nations” would come against Tyre, and that’s exactly what history records. Nebuchadnezzar, Alexander, the great, the Muslims, Crusaders; many nations conquered Tyre over the centuries. Ancient Tyre was stripped of its glory and its strength by the will of God.
God keeps his promises for those who come up against his people Israel.
Good to know.