Tyre
Acts
21:3
The ship Paul boarded at Patara on the coast of Asia sailed east. It passed by Cyprus and landed at the port of Tyre. As the ship unloaded cargo, Paul visited the Christians of Tyre, staying with them for seven days.
Context: Tyre was one of the main port cities in what today is Lebanon. The city gained its wealth from the trade network of the Phoenicians. The king of Tyre had favorable trade relations with Solomon (10th century B.C.), but Tyre was denounced by the prophets for its wealth and idolatry (Isa 23:8; Ezek 26:1-21). Herod the Great beautified Tyre in the first century B.C. Under Roman rule Tyre remained an important commercial center. The purple dye produced in the region was an important source of revenue. A colonnaded street from the Roman period is shown above. Paul would later stop at the nearby port of Sidon on his voyage to Rome.