পাতা:দানিএল মুনির চরিত্র.djvu/১২৩

118 manufactured many articles of merchandise'; among others fine cloths, which they dyed of a rich purple colour with a substance procured from a particular kind of ங், i. was caught in that part of the Mediterranean Sea. Ithobal, the king of Tyre, was a proud and haughty monarch, wh0, as Ezekiel said in one of his prophecies, thought himself wiser than Daniel. He was probably a descendant of that Ithobal, king of Tyre, who was father to Jezebel, the wife of Ahab, king of Israel, and great-grandfather to Dido, who, fleeing from her country with a few attendants, as it is said, founded the city of Carthage, in Africa. Nebuchadnezzar now reigned over the greatest part of Asia one would thfik that he might have been willing to leave the city of Tyre to enjoy its trade and riches in pace But no; like most great kings and generals, he was not satisfied as long as any place remained pnconquered and unsubjected bhis ിജ്l. Beside, God had previously deter. "بيم mined that Tyre should be destroyed. He had even, predicted it by his prophets, Isaiah and Ezekiel,