Lebanon Fishery
Blue Coast v6 Ch 13 JoshSidon on Mediterranean Coast
v6 As for the inhabitants of the mountain regions from Lebanon...that is, all the Sidonians...
3rd largest city in Lebanon on Mediterranean coast, north of Tyre.
Tyre founded by a colonzing party from Sidon.
The Castle of St. Louis or Qalaat Al Muizz, South of Old Souks near Murex Hill - Lebanon.Sidon: Name Means - Fishery
Named for Noah's Grandson Canaan, his 1stborn (Gn 10:15, 19)
Population: 200,000
Mostly Sunni & Shite Muslims
Greek Catholics & Maronites
Commercial Empire - Phoenician Era: Craftsmen
Glass
Purple Dyes (from the pigment of the
broken shell Murex
Trunculus, a rareity
making the mark of
royalty)
Istanbul, Turkey
Lebanon Discoveries: Lycian Tomb & Sarcophagus of the Crying Woman, both now on display at Archaeology Museum in Istanbul.
Sidon Sea Castle(Mt 15:21, Mk 3:8) Jesus visited the coast of Sidon, the mother city of Tyre. The Tribe of Asher was to subdue it but didn't (Jud 1:31). Jezebel was a Sidonian princess (1 Kgs 16:31) but her controlling nature didn't stop Elijah in Zarephath, Lebanon (between Sidon & Tyre) from performing miracles with food and raising the widow's son up (1Kgs 17:8-24).
Whose Your Daddy
Sidon Soap MuseumTyre built herself a tower (Zec 9:3), Tyre & Sidon, though they are very wise (v2) the LORD will cast her out, destroy her power in the sea (4) unless from the seacoast of Tyre & Sidon, they again return to the Son of Man (JC) and be healed of their diseases (Lk 6:17).
Khan El Franj (Caravan of the Foreigners)Sidon
The city was conquered by many: Assyrians
Babylonians
Egyptians
Greeks
Romans
Arabs
Ottoman Turks
Invaded by Alexander the Great during
the HELLenistic Era.
After WWI it became part of the French mandate of Lebanon. During WWII it was captured by the British, afterwards it became a major city of independent Lebanon.
~Ah, Free At Last
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