Matthew Poole and continuators on Zechariah 9:4

4 Behold , the LORD will cast her out , and he will smite her power in the sea , and she shall be devoured with fire .

Observe it, for I tell you truth, though strange, 'twill be so.

The Lord will do this, he will eject and cast her out of her Inheritance, as the word in the Heb. and he will inherit her, as the word also bears. God will do both, he will selfe into his hand by some or other, and so put them out of all. Her Fortifications shall not be able to secure her Possession.

The Lord declares how he will do what he threatens against Tyrus, where their strength lieth, he will break them, take away their shipping, and then both Treasures will waste Trade will fail, and Auxiliaries will not be gotten.

Tyrus, probably Zidon with her.

That is, by the Enemy in the siege, or at the taking of her. All which was done about An. M. 3672. one hundred eighty five years after this Prophesie, when Alexander Magnus master'd Tyrus at Sea with a fleet of 190, or 200 Ships, took the City, slew many Thousands of them, and as Curtius reports, burnt the City.

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