Harrison, Jane Ellen: Introductory studies in Greek art (London: Unwin, 1902)

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king of Babylon. “ Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from
the north, with horses, with chariots, and with horsemen,
and companies, and much people . . . He shall set engines
of war against thee ; ... he shall slay thy people with the
sword, and thy strong garrisons shall go down to the
ground. And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and
make a prey of thy merchandise : and they shall break
down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they
shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the
midst of the water. And I will cause the noise of thy
songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no
more heard. And I will make thee like the top of a
rock ; thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon; thou
shalt be built no more.”
We know also that this total desolation was never more
than in part accomplished. The army of Nebuchad-
nezzar is said to have been thirty years before the city
walls, but the blockade ended in treaty, not in conquest
(573 B.C.). The city was indeed to own the supremacy
of Babylon, and to receive a king of her appointing, and
Ezekiel himself owns that the expected triumph was
in part disappointment. “ Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against
Tyrus : every head was made bald, and every shoulder
was peeled : yet had he no wages, nor his army, for
Tyrus, for the service that he served against it.”