Sidon

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hunting; fishing; venison
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary


SIDON.—See Zidon.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909


("fishing town"); SIDON or ZIDON. Gen_10:9; Gen_10:15; Jos_11:8; Jos_19:28; Jdg_1:31. Sidon was in Asher (Isa_23:2; Isa_23:4; Isa_23:12). An ancient mercantile city of Phoenicia, in the narrow plain between Lebanon and the Mediterranean, where the mountains recede two miles from the sea; 20 miles N. of Tyre. Now Saida. Old Sidon stands on the northern slope of a promontory projecting a few hundred yards into the sea, having thus "a fine naturally formed harbour" (Strabo). The citadel occupies the hill behind on the south. Sidon is called (Gen_10:15) the firstborn of Canaan, and "great Sidon" or the metropolis (Jos_11:8). Sidonians is the generic name of the Phoenicians or Canaanites (Jos_13:6; Jdg_18:7); in Jdg_18:28 Laish is said to be "far from Sidon," whereas Tyre, 20 miles nearer, would have been specified if it had then been a city of leading importance. (See TYRE.) So in Homer Sidon is named, but not Tyre.
Justin Martyr makes (Jdg_18:3) Tyre a colony planted by Sidon when the king of Ascalon took Sidon the year before the fall of Troy. Tyre is first mentioned in Scripture in Jos_19:29 as "the strong city," the "daughter of Sidon" (Isa_23:12.) Sidon and Sidonians are names often subsequently used for Tyre, Tyrians. Thus Ethbaal, king of the Sidonians (1Ki_16:31), is called by Menander in Josephus (Ant. 8:13, section 2) king of the Tyrians. By the time of Zechariah (Zec_9:2) Tyre has the precedency, "Tyrus and Sidon." Sidon revolted from the yoke of Tyre when Shalmaneser's invasion gave the opportunity. Rivalry with Tyre influenced Sidon to submit without resistance to Nebuchadnezzar. Its rebellion against the Persian Artaxerxes Ochus entailed great havoc on its citizens, Tennes its king proving traitor. Its fleet helped Alexander the Great against Tyre (Arrian, Anab. Al., 2:15).
Augustus took away its liberties. Its population is now 5,000. Its trade and navigation have left it for Beirut. It was famed for elaborate embroidery, working of metals artistically, glass, the blowpipe, lathe, and graver, and cast mirrors. (Pliny 36:26, H. N. 5:17; 1Ki_5:6, "not any can skill to hew timber like unto the Sidonians".) Their seafaring is alluded to (Isa_23:2). Self indulgent ease followed in the train of their wealth, so that "the manner of the Sidonians" was proverbial (Jdg_18:7).. Sidon had her own king (Jer_25:22; Jer_27:3). Sidonian women in Solomon's harem seduced him to worship Ashtoreth "the goddess of the Sidonians" (1Ki_11:1; 1Ki_11:4; 2Ki_23:13).
Joel reproves Sidon and Tyre for selling children of Judah and Jerusalem to the Grecians, and threatens them with a like fate, Judah selling their sons and daughters to the Sabeans. So Ezekiel (Eze_28:22-24) threatens Sidon with pestilence and blood in her streets, so that she shall be no more a pricking brier unto Israel. Jesus went once to the coasts of Tyre and Sidon (Mat_15:21). Paul touched at Sidon on his voyage from Caesarea to Rome (Act_27:3); by Julius' courteous permission Paul there "went unto his friends to refresh himself." Tyre and Sidon's doom shall be more tolerable in the day of judgment than that of those who witnessed Christ's works and teaching, yet repented not (Mat_11:21-22). On a coin of the age of Antiochus IV Tyre claims to be "mother of the Sidonians," being at that time the capital city.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.


Si'don. The Greek form of the Phoenician name, Zidon. See Zidon.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863


or ZIDON, a celebrated city and port of Phenicia, and one of the most ancient cities in the world; as it is supposed to have been founded by Sidon, the eldest son of Canaan, which will carry it up to above two thousand years before Christ. But if it was founded by Sidon, his descendants were driven out by a body of Phenician colonists, or Cushim from the east; who are supposed either to have given it its name, or to have retained the old one in compliment to their god Siton, or Dagon. Its inhabitants appear to have early acquired a preeminence in arts, manufactures, and commerce; and from their superior skill in hewing timber, by which must be understood their cutting it out and preparing it for building, as well as the mere act of felling it, Sidonian workmen were hired by Solomon to prepare the wood for the building of his temple. The Sidonians are said to have been the first manufacturers of glass; and Homer often speaks of them as excelling in many useful and ingenious arts, giving them the title of Πολυδαιδαλοι. Add to this, they were, if not the first shipwrights and navigators, the first who ventured beyond their own coasts, and in those early ages engrossed the greatest part of the then commerce of the world. The natural result of these exclusive advantages to the inhabitants of Sidon was, a high degree of wealth and prosperity; and content with the riches which their trade and manufactures brought them, they lived in ease and luxury, trusting the defence of their city and property, like the Tyrians after them, to hired troops; so that to live in ease and security, is said in Scripture to be after the manner of the Sidonians. In all these respects, however, Sidon was totally eclipsed by her neighbour and rival, Tyre; whose more enterprising inhabitants pushed their commercial dealings to the extremities of the known world, raised their city to a rank in power and opulence unknown before, and converted it into a luxurious metropolis, and the emporium of the produce of all nations. After the subversion of the Grecian empire by the Romans, Sidon fell into the hands of the latter; who, to put an end to the frequent revolt of the inhabitants, deprived it of its freedom. It then fell successively under the power of the Saracens, the Seljukian Turks, and the sultans of Egypt; who, in 1289, that they might never more afford shelter to the Christians, destroyed both it and Tyre. But it again somewhat revived, and has ever since been in the possession of the Ottoman Turks.
Biblical and Theological Dictionary by Richard Watson
PRINTER 1849.


The Mediterranean seaports of Tyre and Sidon were the two most important towns of Phoenicia. The Bible frequently mentions the two towns together as a way of referring to Phoenicia in general (Ezr_3:7; Isa_23:1; Isa_23:4; Zec_9:2; Mar_7:24). Sometimes mention of only one of the towns is sufficient. For example, Tyre, being the larger and more prosperous port, may have symbolized the greed and arrogance that Phoenicia as a whole developed because of its international shipping activity (Isa_23:1; Isa_23:8; Isa_23:17; Eze_27:3; Eze_27:25; Eze_28:5; Eze_28:9; Eze_28:16). In the same way Sidon, being a dominant religious centre, fittingly symbolized the corrupt Phoenician religion that at times troubled Israel (Jdg_10:6; 1Ki_16:31-33). (For details of Sidon’s commerce, religion and history see PHOENICIA.)
Bridgeway Bible Dictionary by Don Fleming
PRINTER 1990.


Si?don [ZIDON]




The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.



(Σιδών), the Greek form (2Es_1:11; Jdt_2:28; 1Ma_5:15; Mat_11:21-22; Mat_15:21; Mar_3:8; Mar_7:24; Mar_7:31; Luk_4:26; Luk_6:17; Luk_10:13-14; Act_12:20; Act_28:3) of the city called in the Heb. (but in the A. V. " Sidon," also in Gen_10:15; Gen_10:19) ZIDON SEE ZIDON (q.v.', or rather Tsidon.



CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.





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