What is the context?
Tyre is charged with delivering a whole community of exiles to Edom and forgetting a covenant of brotherhood.
The betrayal therefore concerns both treatment of captives and repudiated obligation. Commercial or political advantage does not erase a pledged relationship.
The threatened fire against walls and fortresses answers confidence in the city’s security. It is not a command for readers to retaliate when a friendship fails.
How is this passage commonly understood?
Wesley connects the brotherly covenant with Hiram’s relations with David and Solomon. That is his proposed historical identification; the oracle names the violated relationship without reproducing its treaty.
What is our position?
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Where can I study this further?
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