BIBLE PROPHECIES | OTHER NATIONS (5)

1. Other nations

a) The Bible has many prophecies about other nations - countries other than Israel. These nations include Babylon, Tyre, Nineveh and Edom. These and other nations had tormented Israel in ancient times, by conquering the Holy Land, and forcing the Jews into exile and slavery. Many of these prophecies about other nations involve ancient nations and many were fulfilled in ancient times.

b) Bible prophecies are listed below.

2. Bible Prophecies

a) Phoenician Tyre would never be rebuilt. 

Ezekiel 26:14 New International Version (NIV) 

14 I will make you a bare rock, and you will become a place to spread fishnets. You will never be rebuilt, for I the Lord have spoken, declares the Sovereign Lord.

3. Written: Between 587-586 BC

a) In Ezekiel 26:14, the prophet says the Phoenician city of Tyre would be destroyed and never be rebuilt. This was fulfilled when Alexander the Great conquered Tyre in 332 BC. His conquest brought an end to the Phoenician Empire. The empire never recovered from the attack. And so, it could never rebuild Tyre. Other nations and empires have built and rebuilt cities on or near the original Phoenician site. 

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