Kejadian 10:15

10:15 Canaan was the father of ¹  Sidon his firstborn, ²  Heth, ³ 

Matius 11:21

11:21 “Woe to you, Chorazin! ⁴  Woe to you, Bethsaida! If ⁵  the miracles ⁶  done in you had been done in Tyre ⁷  and Sidon, ⁸  they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

¹ tn Heb “fathered.”

² sn Sidon was the foremost city in Phoenicia; here Sidon may be the name of its founder.

³ tn Some see a reference to “Hittites” here (cf. NIV), but this seems unlikely. See the note on the phrase “sons of Heth” in Gen 23:3.

⁴ sn Chorazin was a town of Galilee that was probably fairly small in contrast to Bethsaida and is otherwise unattested. Bethsaida was declared a polis by the tetrarch Herod Philip, sometime after a.d. 30.

⁵ tn This introduces a second class (contrary to fact) condition in the Greek text.

⁶ tn Or “powerful deeds.”

⁷ map For location see Map1 A2; Map2 G2; Map4 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.

⁸ sn Tyre and Sidon are two other notorious OT cities (Isa 23; Jer 25:22; 47:4). The remark is a severe rebuke, in effect: “Even the sinners of the old era would have responded to the proclamation of the kingdom, unlike you!”

map For location see Map1 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.