Her caravans could traverse them with increased security, now that they were safeguarded by a power whereof she was a dependency.

She may even have obtained through Assyria access to regions which had been previously closed to her, as Media, and perhaps Persia.
At any rate Tyre seems to have been as flourishing in the later times of the Assyrian dominion as at almost any other period.

Isaiah, in denouncing woe upon her, towards the close of the dominion, shows us what she had been under it:-- Be silent (he says), ye inhabitants of the island, Which the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.
The corn of the Nile, on the broad waters, The harvest of the River, has been her revenue: She has been the mart of nations.

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She was a joyful city, Her antiquity was of ancient days.