Sentence examples for king of tyre from inspiring English sources

Hiram himself was the Biblical king of Tyre who supplied materials and manpower to Solomon to build the temple.

In the 10th century bce Hiram, king of Tyre, built the Temple of Solomon at Jerusalem in return for rich gifts of oil, wine, and territory.

The Roman tradition is better known, however, because of the Aeneid, which tells of the city's foundation by the Tyrian princess Dido, who fled from her brother Pygmalion (the name of a historical king of Tyre).

At the time of Xerxes I's invasion of Greece (480 bce), Sidon was considered the principal city of Phoenicia; the ships of Sidon were considered the finest part of Xerxes' fleet, and its king ranked next to Xerxes and before the king of Tyre.

Like all the Galilean satellites, Europa is named after a lover of Zeus, the Greek counterpart of Jupiter, in this case Europa, daughter of the king of Tyre.

Sidon was stripped of its territory, which was awarded to Baal I, the king of rival Tyre and loyal vassal to Esarhaddon.

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A fresh invasion by Shalmaneser V took place in 725 when he was on his way to Samaria, and in 701 Sennacherib, facing a rebellion of Philistia, Judah, and Phoenicia, drove out and deposed Luli, identified as king of both Sidon and Tyre.

Caption: Photo of Tyre King (image credit courtesy of Walton and Brown, LLP).

In the following century Ethbaal of Tyre married his daughter Jezebel to Ahab, king of Israel, and Jezebel's daughter in turn married the king of Judah.

Jezebel was the daughter of the priest-king Ethbaal, ruler of the coastal Phoenician cities of Tyre and Sidon (modern Ṣaydā, Lebanon).