Kejadian 10:19

10:19 and the borders of Canaan extended ¹  from Sidon ²  all the way to ³  Gerar as far as Gaza, and all the way to ⁴  Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.

Yosua 11:8

11:8 The Lord handed them over to Israel and they struck them down and chased them all the way to Greater Sidon, ⁵  Misrephoth Maim, ⁶  and the Mizpah Valley to the east. They struck them down until no survivors remained.

Hakim-hakim 10:6

The Lord’s Patience Runs Short

10:6 The Israelites again did evil in the Lord’s sight. ⁷  They worshiped ⁸  the Baals and the Ashtars, ⁹  as well as the gods of Syria, Sidon, ¹⁰  Moab, the Ammonites, and the Philistines. ¹¹  They abandoned the Lord and did not worship ¹²  him.

Yesaya 23:2

23:2 Lament, ¹³  you residents of the coast,

you merchants of Sidon ¹⁴  who travel over the sea,

whose agents sail over

Yesaya 23:4

23:4 Be ashamed, O Sidon,

for the sea ¹⁵  says this, O fortress of the sea:

“I have not gone into labor

or given birth;

I have not raised young men

or brought up young women.” ¹⁶ 

Yeremia 25:22

25:22 all the kings of Tyre, ¹⁷  all the kings of Sidon; ¹⁸  all the kings of the coastlands along the sea; ¹⁹ 

[10:19]  ¹ tn Heb “were.”

[10:19]  ² map For location see Map1 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.

[10:19]  ³ tn Heb “as you go.”

[10:19]  ⁴ tn Heb “as you go.”

[11:8]  ⁵ map For location see Map1 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.

[11:8]  ⁶ tn The meaning of the Hebrew name “Misrephoth Maim” is perhaps “lime-kilns by the water” (see HALOT 2:641).

[10:6]  ⁷ tn Heb “in the eyes of the Lord.”

[10:6]  ⁸ tn Or “served;” or “followed.”

[10:6]  ⁹ sn The Ashtars were local manifestations of the goddess Ashtar (i.e., Astarte).

[10:6]  ¹⁰ map For location see Map1 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.

[10:6]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines.”

[10:6]  ¹² tn Or “serve”; or “follow.”

[23:2]  ¹³ tn Or “keep quiet”; NAB “Silence!”

[23:2]  ¹⁴ map For location see Map1 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.

[23:4]  ¹⁵ tn J. N. Oswalt (Isaiah [NICOT], 1:430-31) sees here a reference to Yam, the Canaanite god of the sea. He interprets the phrase מָעוֹז הַיָּם (ma’oz hayyam, “fortress of the sea”) as a title of Yam, translating “Mighty One of the Sea.” A more traditional view is that the phrase refers to Sidon.

[23:4]  ¹⁶ tn Or “virgins” (KJV, ASV, NAB, NASB).

[23:4]  sn The sea is personified here as a lamenting childless woman. The foreboding language anticipates the following announcement of Tyre’s demise, viewed here as a child of the sea, as it were.

[25:22]  ¹⁷ map For location see Map1 A2; Map2 G2; Map4 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.

[25:22]  ¹⁸ sn Tyre and Sidon are mentioned within the judgment on the Philistines in Jer 47:4. They were Phoenician cities to the north and west of Judah on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea in what is now Lebanon.

[25:22]  map For location see Map1 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.

[25:22]  ¹⁹ sn The connection with Tyre and Sidon suggests that these were Phoenician colonies. See also Isa 23:2.