Tyre
Where is Tyre today? The port city of Tyre (Sour) in southern Lebanon, the Phoenician city of King Hiram, Ezekiel's oracles and Paul's stopover.
- Today
- Tyre (Sour), southern Lebanon
- Country
- Lebanon
- Status
- Living city: its ancient remains are a UNESCO World Heritage site
- Identification
- Certain
Tyre is a famous Phoenician port city on the Mediterranean coast that grew rich through sea trade. Hiram king of Tyre sent David cedar wood and craftsmen for his palace and later supported the building of Solomon's temple. Isaiah and Ezekiel delivered long oracles about the city's wealth and pride. In the New Testament Jesus went to the region of Tyre and Sidon and praised the faith of a woman pleading for her daughter. On his way to Jerusalem Paul stayed in Tyre for seven days and knelt to pray on the beach with the disciples there.
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Where is the city of Tyre today?
Tyre today is the port city of the same name (Sour in Arabic) in southern Lebanon; it is not to be confused with the Sur district of Diyarbakır in Türkiye. In the Bible it is the city of King Hiram, who sent cedar to David and Solomon (1 Kings 5:1); Jesus visited its region and Paul stayed here for seven days. Today visitors see a Roman colonnaded road, baths, a large hippodrome and a monumental arch.
What was Ezekiel's prophecy about Tyre?
In chapters 26–28 Ezekiel announces God's judgment on Tyre, which boasted of its wealth: it would become a place for spreading nets in the middle of the sea (Ezekiel 26:5). Nebuchadnezzar's long siege and Alexander the Great's capture of the island city in 332 BC, after building a causeway to it, are often read alongside these oracles.
Did Jesus go to Tyre?
Yes. Matthew and Mark describe Jesus withdrawing to the region of Tyre and Sidon, where he praised the faith of a woman who begged him to heal her daughter (Matthew 15:21-28). Mark describes her as a Greek of Syrophoenician origin.