Interesting people those Sidonians..
The Dispossessed People:
The Sidonians
The Sidonians were inhabitants of the city if Sidon, on the Mediterranean coast between Tyre and Beirut in modern Lebanon. It is also called "Zidon" and the word means "Hunting".
Dt 3:9
(
which Hermon
the Sidonians call Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir;)
Jsh 13:4,6
4 on the south; all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that belongs to
the Sidonians, to Aphek, to the border of the Amorites;
6 all the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth Maim, even
all the Sidonians; them will I drive out from before the children of Israel: only allocate it to Israel for an inheritance, as I have commanded you.
Jdg 3:3
namely, the five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and
the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal Hermon to the entrance of Hamath.
Jdg 10:12
The Sidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, did oppress you; and you cried to me, and I saved you out of their hand.
Jdg 18:7
Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people who were therein, how they lived in security, after the manner of
the Sidonians, quiet and secure; for there was none in the land, possessing authority, that might put
them to shame in anything, and they were far from
the Sidonians, and had no dealings with any man.
1Kg 5:6
Now therefore command that they cut me cedar trees out of Lebanon. My servants shall be with your servants; and I will give you wages for your servants according to all that you shall say. For you know that there is not among us any who knows how to cut timber like
the Sidonians.”
1Kg 11:1,5,33
1 Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites,
Sidonians, and Hittites;
5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of
the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
33 because that they have forsaken me, and have worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of
the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon. They have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in my eyes, and
to keep my statutes and my ordinances, as David his father did.
1Kg 16:31
It happened, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of
the Sidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshiped him.
2Kg 23:13
The high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mountain of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of
the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.
1Ch 22:4
and cedar trees without number: for
the Sidonians and they of Tyre brought cedar trees in abundance to David.
Ezk 32:30
There are the princes of the north, all of them, and
all the Sidonians, who are gone down with the slain; in the terror which they caused by their might they are put to shame; and they lie uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sword, and bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.
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