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The Sidonians long oppressed Israel. [64] From the time of David its glory began to wane, and Tyre, its "virgin daughter", [65] rose to its place of pre-eminence. Solomon entered into a matrimonial alliance with the Sidonians, and thus their form of idolatrous worship found a place in the land of Israel. [66]
The governorate of South Lebanon, with Sidon as its base, consisted of seven districts: Sidon, Tyre, Hasbaya and Marjeyoun, Bint Jbeil, Nabatiyeh, and Jezzine, and these districts are what still stand today.
The King of Tyre was the ruler of Tyre, the ancient Phoenician city in what is now Lebanon.The traditional list of 12 kings, with reigns dated to 990–785 BC, is derived from the lost history of Menander of Ephesus as quoted by Josephus in Against Apion I. 116–127. [1]
Philocles is first securely attested as "King of the Sidonians" in an Athenian inscription of 286/5 BC. [3] Philocles however first appears much earlier, in a list of benefactors who donated money to rebuild the city of Thebes, which had been razed by Alexander.
Sarepta (near modern Sarafand, Lebanon) was a Phoenician city on the Mediterranean coast between Sidon and Tyre, also known biblically as Zarephath.It became a bishopric, which faded, and remains a double (Latin and Maronite) Catholic titular see.
Bordreuil, Pierre; Gubel, Eric (1986). "Bulletin d'antiquités archéologiques du Levant inédites ou méconnues".Syria. Archéologie, Art et histoire.
Arah of the Sidonians is a place-name which appears in Joshua 13:4. [27] ... Today the location of the biblical Elealeh is called elĘżAl. [84] Eleph
For many centuries, Phoenicians and Canaanites alike were alternatively called Sidonians or Tyrians. Throughout much of the 11th century BC, the biblical books of Joshua, Judges, and Samuel use the term Sidonian to describe all Phoenicians; by the 10th century BC, Tyre rose to become the richest and most powerful Phoenician city state ...