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Nebuchadnezzar surveys Tyre from a coastal labor camp as workers rest.
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Ezekiel 29:17-18

Tyre's unpaid siege labor

The Nile Boast and a Horn for Israel · Ezekiel 29

Story guide: Nebuchadnezzar uses his existing canonical model; no battle or plunder is invented.

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17And it happened in the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

18Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made his army labor greatly against Tyre; every head was made bald and every shoulder was rubbed bare, yet there was no pay for him or for his army from Tyre for the labor that he had performed against it.

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