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Our chapter is the first of three prophecies of Ezekiel (Chapters 26-28) against the city of Tyre (Tzor). Tyre is one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world, having been settled in the first half of the third millennium BCE. Tyre\u2019s fabulous wealth (see Ezekiel Chapter 27, Zechariah 9:3), was dependent on its production of \u201cTyrian purple\u201d, a dye produced from the Murex snail, that was reserved for royalty. In Biblical times, a \u201cthread of blue\u201d dyed with this aristocratic color was required to be included in the Tzitzit (\u201ctassels\u201d) of the Tallit, (Numbers 15:38) \u2013 see also Bavli Menahot 44a and Shabbat 26a.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the days of David, relations with Tyre were amicable (see 2 Samuel 5:11). This continued when Solomon built the First Temple and a royal palace in Jerusalem: \u201cKing Hiram of Tyre supplied Solomon with all the cedar and cypress timber and gold that he required\u201d (I Kings 9:11). However, by the time of Isaiah, relations with Tyre had deteriorated to the extent that this prophet foretells its utter destruction (Isaiah ch. 23).<\/span><\/p>\n

Indeed, in 332 BCE, Alexander the Great conquered Tyre after a complicated siege, which necessitated his building a causeway from the mainland to the coastal island on which Tyre was originally built.<\/span><\/p>\n

The rabbinic sages learned from the destruction of Tyre that God punishes the foreign nations with the very things about which they act haughtily. Tyre was inordinately proud of its fabled beauty: \u201c\u2026O Tyre, you boasted, I am perfect in beauty. Your frontiers were on the high seas. Your builders perfected your beauty\u201d (Ezekiel 27:3-4). For this reason, God declares Tyre\u2019s destruction: \u201cThus said the Lord God: I am going to deal with you, O Tyre! I will hurl many nations against you, as the sea hurls its waves\u201d (Ezekiel 26:3). Ezekiel\u2019s rage is directed particularly against the ruler of Tyre: \u201cThe word of the Lord came to me: O mortal, say to the prince of Tyre: Thus said the Lord God: Because you have been so haughty and have said: I am a god; I sit enthroned like a god in the heart of the seas, whereas you are not a god but a man, though you deemed your mind equal to a god\u2019s\u2026By the hands of strangers you shall die\u201d (Ezekiel 28:1-2, 10) (Mekhilta de-Rabbi Yishmael, Shirata 2).<\/span><\/p>\n

In rabbinic literature, Tyre came to be associated with the oppressive Roman empire According to Midrash Tanhuma Bo\u2019 4, all the plagues that the Lord brought against the Egyptians in Egypt, He will bring against Rome, as it is said: \u201cWhen word comes to Egypt, they will be in anguish at the report from Tyre \u2013 Tz[o]r\u201d (Isaiah 23:5). Rabbi Eleazar ben Pedat said: Wherever Scripture writes Tz[o]r without the letter Vav, so that it can be read Tz[a]r (i.e. oppressor) it refers to Rome, which, like Egypt, oppressed Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n

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