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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Gebal
Byblos, to the Greeks, a Phoenician port north of Beirut. Ezekiel says its craftsmen caulked the ships of Tyre. The ruins gave up the Ahiram sarcophagus, carrying one of the earliest examples of the Phoenician alphabet.
Byblos, to the Greeks, a Phoenician port north of Beirut. Ezekiel says its craftsmen caulked the ships of Tyre. The ruins gave up the Ahiram sarcophagus, carrying one of the earliest examples of the Phoenician alphabet.
This Gebal was the great Phoenician port city the Greeks called Byblos, north of Beirut on the Lebanese coast, named in Ezekiel's oracle as the source of skilled craftsmen who caulked Tyre's ships (Ezek. 27:9). Byblos is one of the longest continuously inhabited cities in the world, and its excavated ruins have produced the Ahiram sarcophagus, inscribed with one of the earliest known examples of the Phoenician alphabet, as well as Bronze Age letters to Egypt in which its king begged Pharaoh for military help against invaders.
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- Ezekiel 27:9
- Psalm 83:7
