arried along in pipes by that neck of land; and that this island was
therefore, in strictness, no other than a peninsula, having villages in
its fields, Ezekiel 26:6, and a wall about it, Amos 1:10, and the city
was not of so great reputation as Sitlon for some ages: that it was
attacked both by sea and land by Salmanasser, as Josephus informs us,
Antiq. B. IX. ch. 14. sect. 2, and afterwards came to be the metropolis
of Phoenicia; and was afterwards taken and destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar,
according to the numerous Scripture prophecies thereto relating, Isaiah
23.; Jeremiah 25:22; 27:3; 47:4; Ezekiel 26., 27., 28.: that seventy
years after that destruction by Nebuchadnezzar, this city was in some
measure revived and rebuilt, Isaiah 23:17, 18, but that, as the prophet
Ezekiel had foretold, chap. 26:3-5, 14; 27: 34, the sea arose higher
than before, till at last it over flowed, not only the neck of land, but
the main island or peninsula itself, and destroyed that old and famous
city for ever: that, however, there still remained an adjoining smaller
island, once connected to Old Tyre itself by Hiram, which was afterwards
inhabited; to which Alexander the Great, with incredible pains, raised a
new bank or causeway: and that it plainly appears from Ifaundreh, a
most authentic eye-witness, that the old large and famous city, on the
original large island, is now laid so generally under water, that scarce
more than forty acres of it, or rather of that adjoining small island
remain at this day; so that, perhaps, not above a hundredth part of the
first island and city is now above water. This was foretold in the
same prophecies of Ezekiel; and according to them, as Mr. Maundrell
distinctly observes, these poor remains of Old Tyre are now "become like
the top of a rock, a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the
sea."

[7] Of the temple of Solomon here described by Josephus, in this and the
following sections of this chapter, see my description of the temples
belonging to this work, ch. 13, These small rooms, or side chambers,
seem to have been, by Josephus's description, no less than twenty cubits
high a piece, otherwise there must have been a large interval between
one and the other that was over it; and this with double floors, the one
of six cubits distance from the floor beneath it, as 1 Kings 6:5

[8] Josephus says here that the cherubims were of solid gold, and only
five cubits high, while our Hebrew copies [1 Kin