What is the Sitz-im-Leben (seat-in life) of the prophecy?
An historical study of Bible prophecies fulfilled must consider specific fulfillment of each prediction concerning Tyre: (1) Nebuchadnezzar II laid siege to mainland Tyre from 585 to 573 BCE. However, by the time he broke down the gates and entered the city it was empty. The Tyrians had relocated to an island a half mile off shore, where they built a fortified city. In 573 BCE mainland Tyre was destroyed. (2) Ezekiels prediction that many nations will come against Tyre was fulfilled many times over: Nebuchadnezzars siege573 BCE; Alexander the Greats siege333 BCE; Antigonus laid siege for 15 months in 314 BCE. Ptolemy II (285-247 BCE) redirected the trade traffic of the Red Sea and Indian Ocean through the new port of Bernice on the Red Sea. This meant Mediterranean distribution was through Alexandria and no longer through Tyre. (3) In 332 BCE Alexander the Great threw the debris from the ruins of mainland Tyre into the sea to make a causeway to island Tyre. (4) Thus in constructing the
