Where Is Tyre?

Why is the city of Tyre still around, if in prophecy it said the city will never again be found? Is it because Alexander threw the original city into the sea, and that was what the prophecy was referring to?

Q. Why is the city of Tyre still around, if in prophecy it said the city will never again be found?

Is it because Alexander threw the original city into the sea, and that was what the prophecy was referring to?

A. Yes. In the 7th Century BC Nebuchadnezzar spent 13 years in a successful siege against the city. The survivors picked up and moved to an island fortress they built a half mile off shore, thinking they could never be conquered again. 300 years later Alexander the Great used the material from the abandoned city to build a causeway to the island fulling Ezekiel’s prophecy that the stones, timber and soil of the city would be thrown into the sea and it would never be re-built.(Ezekiel 26:12-14) All told it took him only 7 months to conquer the new city.

Although there is a city in Lebanon called Tyre today, because Alexander removed every trace of the original city’s ruins, it’s exact location is still a matter of debate.