Isaiah 23:12

And he said What follows may be regarded as the "commandment" referred to in Isaiah 23:11.

O thou oppressed(or ravished) virgin, daughter of Zidon The epithet "virgin" is applied to Zidon as a fortress hitherto unviolated by a conqueror. It is an almost inevitable inference that the calamity here described is the first she has known, at least within living memory. This would apply to the campaign of Shalmaneser, but not to that of Sennacherib.