deadman_932
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Ezekiel tells us that Tyre will come to a dreadful end, that it will be no more forever, never to be rebuilt. Tyre will be sunk into the primeval ocean, never to be found again.
None of this ever happened. The "rock" that was Tyre is now connected to the mainland, forming an isthmus that is chock-full of rubble and debris of thousands of years 
It is not underwater at all. It has been continuously inhabited since 1600 BCE. After his conquest of 322, Alexander in fact rebuilt Tyre. Thus, McDowell (Evidence that Demands a Verdict, Vol. I) has to claim that 1291 AD then becomes the "real" destruction of Tyre, when the Mamluks conquer it...yet it remained and remains inhabited today.
Joukowsky, Martha Sharp, ed. (1992). The Heritage of Tyre: Essays on the History, Archaeology, and Preservation of Tyre. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co.
Aubet, Maria Eugenia.(1997). The Phoenicians and the West : politics, colonies, and trade. New York : Cambridge University Press.
Lipinski, E., ed. Phoenicia and the Bible (1991) : Proceedings of the Conference Held at the University of Leuven on the 15th and 16th of March 1990. Leuven : Departement Orientalistiek : Peeters.
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