The great Phoenician seaport north of Carmel, built on an island a little offshore with a mainland settlement facing it — a trading power rather than a territorial one, with colonies as far west as Carthage. Its king HIRAM supplied David and then Solomon with cedar, craftsmen and shipping, and the two kingdoms signed a treaty: 'there was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them cut a covenant' (1 Kings 5:12), with Hiram addressing Solomon as 'my brother' (1 Kings 9:13). ⚠ That is almost certainly the 'covenant of brothers' Amos says Tyre forgot (1:9). Ezekiel 26-28 devotes three chapters to the city, and Alexander the Great finally took it in 332 BC by building a causeway out to the island — which is still there, and has silted up, so that the island is now a peninsula. Centuries later, Jesus invokes the city as the standard by which an OUTSIDER would have repented where his own Galilean towns did not: 'if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes' (Matthew 11:21) — and later still walks into its own territory in person, the only Gentile soil the Gospels record him personally entering (Matthew 15:21).