Amo 1:9-10 | TNotes | STEP | 1:9 Tyre and Sidon were the principal seaports of Phoenicia. • Tyre’s crime, like Philistia’s (1:6-8 ), was selling whole villages of Israelite captives to the Edomites as slaves , a captivity made more bitter by a sense of betrayal (see 2 Sam 5:11 ; 1 Kgs 5:1 , 11 ; 16:30-31 ). Tyre’s reputation was “anything is for sale”; Isaiah portrayed the city as a prostitute peddling her wares (Isa 23:15-17 ).

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‏ Amos 1:9-10

1:9 ^a Tyre and Sidon were the principal seaports of Phoenicia.

• Tyre’s crime, like Philistia’s (1:6-8 ^b), was selling whole villages of Israelite captives to the Edomites as slaves, a captivity made more bitter by a sense of betrayal (see 2 Sam 5:11 ^c; 1 Kgs 5:1 ^d, 11 ^e; 16:30-31 ^f). Tyre’s reputation was “anything is for sale”; Isaiah portrayed the city as a prostitute peddling her wares (Isa 23:15-17 ^g).
1:10 ^h fire on the walls: The main part of Tyre was built on an island, making it almost impossible to capture (see Ezek 26:1–28:19 ⁱ).