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ruled over the house of Israel for forty years during Hiram’s time (2 Chronicles 9:30) and when Tyre fell Jerusalem was already under siege (2 Chronicles 36:4-7). Using this information as a point of reference and adding the number of years each king ruled after Solomon, including Jehoiakim who reigned at the time of the siege; over four hundred and sixteen years had passed and unrepentant idolatry and sin progressed to the moral and spiritual decline of the people. The worship of the LORD slowly disappeared from Tyrus as lawlessness, oppression, war and poverty ensued. Proverbs 8:13 and 16:18 applying the NKJV states: “The fear of the LORD is to hate evil; pride and arrogance and the evil way, and the perverse mouth I hate. . . . Pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.” These words became a witness against the prince of Tyrus because he forgot the LORD God who made them prosper.

This prince of Tyrus had it made, yet lost it all because he consulted with the dark arts, thinking in his heart that evil was more pleasurable than doing that which is pleasing and honorable. His great successes and the accolades of the surrounding nations got to his head and with his heart lifted up, he recklessly elevated himself to the status of God (Exodus 20:2-3). This once great and notable leader slowly drifted from the kingdom of light into the kingdom of darkness. Over the process of time, there was no trace of God left in him and his adoption into the kingdom of darkness was complete, thereby earning him the title, “prince,” a natural agitator influenced by a supernatural evil fallen being.

Verses 3-10

“Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee: with thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures: by thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches: therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God; behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness. They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas. Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth