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202 A Commentary
Chapter CHAP. XXVI.
XXVI.
The Argument.
This and the following Chaffer with fart of the
Twenty eighth, foretell the r DeftruBion of Tyre
by Nebuchadnezzar, who took it after a thirteen
fears Siege, (as Jofephus relates out 0/Philoftra-
tus and the Phoenician Annals : See his Antiq.
1. x. c. 11. ad fin. 1. 1. contr. Appion. p. 1046.)
and in the Thirty fecond Tear of Nebuchadnezzar'J-
Reign according to the Babylonifh eAccount.
See the Note on Chap, xxix. 1 7. T5y reafon
of which hard Service, every Head was made
bald, and every Shoulder was peeled, as our
'Prophet [peaks Chap, xxix. 1 8. The fame Calamity
is foretold by Ifaiah, Chap, xxiii. This Siege
forced the Inhabitants to remove their EffeBs into
an Ifland half a Mile diftant from the Shore,
where they built another City called New Tyre.
The Learned Dr. Prideaux, in his ConnetJ. of
Script. Hift. Part 1. p. 91. and 484. hath obferved.