id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7779 King of Tyre - Wikipedia .html text/html 1257 181 76 The traditional list of 12 kings, with reigns dated to 990–785 BC, is derived from the lost history of Menander of Ephesus as quoted by Josephus in Against Apion I. Kings of the Sidonians (with Tyre as capital), 990–785 BC[edit] The dates for the reconstruction of Menander's Tyrian king list from Abibaal through Pygmalion are established in three places by three independent sources: a Biblical synchronism (Hiram's assistance to Solomon in building the Temple, from 967 BC onwards), an Assyrian record (tribute of Baal-Eser II/Balazeros II to Shalmaneser III in 841 BC), and a Roman historian (Pompeius Trogus, who placed the founding of Carthage or Dido's flight from her brother Pygmalion in the latter's seventh year of reign, in 825 BC, 72 years before the founding of Rome).[5] (Ethbaal III) 591–573 BC This is the king mentioned in Ezekiel 28:2 at the time of the fall of Jerusalem.[8] Carthage became independent of Tyre in 574 BC. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7779.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7779.txt