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SI'DON.
The first son of
Canaan
(
Gen. 10:15
).
A city founded by the
Phoenicians
, now called
Saida
. It is 20 miles north of
Tyre
and the same distance south of
Beirut
, on a small
promontory
. Reference to this city is found in the
Tel el-Amarna
tablets of 1400 B.C. When the
Promised Land
was divided among the tribes,
Sidon
was the northern limit of the country of
Zebulun
(
Gen. 49:13
). It was a place of
heathen
worship even to the days of
Ahab
, for his wife
Jezebel
, a
Baal
worshiper, came from Sidon (
1 Kin. 16:31-33
;
18:18ff
). It was destroyed in 678 B.C. by
Esarhaddon
, king of
Assyria
. It was later rebuilt.
Joel
the
prophet
condemned it because it had sold
Hebrew
captives as slaves (
Joel 3:4-6
). When the second temple was rebuilt, cedar wood was brought from the
Sidonians
(
Ezra 3:7
). Sidon became subject to
Rome
in 64 B.C. With its neighbor Tyre, it had a part in the public ministry of
Jesus
(
Mark 3:8
;
Luke 6:17
;
Matt. 11:21,22
;
Mark 7:24-30
). In the 11th and 12th centuries it became a battleground of the
Crusaders
.
From Sidon to Tyre, or Death Surprised
Tyre
The Latter Achemenians, Approaching the End
Sidonians
The New Helen
Tripoli
Baldwin I
Esarhaddon
Phoenician
Baal
Dido
Rome
Eshmunazar
Abdalonymus
Melqart
A Sniper in Every Minaret
Egypt and the Exile
Battle of Damascus
Abdolonimus
Sarepta
Uluburun Shipwreck
Ahab
Beirut
Tel el Amarna