Sidon 은
Tyre 와 같이 동 지중해 연안에서 제일 큰 항구이다. 현재는 그곳을 사이다라고 한다.
Lebanon 지역의 대표적인 도시 중 하나이다.
이곳에서 섬기던 신은
Baal 과
Ashtaroth 이었다.
For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
The king defiled 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.
아합 왕의 왕비로 유명한
이세벨 이 바로 이
Sidon 왕
Ethbaal 의 딸이었다. 이 이세벨은 성경에서 악녀의 대명사로 불리웠다.
31 As if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat , he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal , and worshiped him.
32 He raised up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria .
33 Ahab made the Asherah ; and Ahab did more yet to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel , to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.
17 When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, “Is that you, you troubler of Israel ?”
18 He answered, “I have not troubled Israel ; but you, and your father’s house, in that you have forsaken Yahweh’s commandments, and you have followed the Baals.
Temple 을 지을 때에
Lebanon 에서 실어나르는
Cedar 이 이
Sidon 을 통해
Joppa 로 운송되었다.
페르시아 제국의 침공 당시
Sidon 사람들은 함락을 앞두로 이 도시를 스스로 불태웠는데, 이 사건에 대해서 예수님께서 언급하셨다.
“Woe to you, Chorazin ! Woe to you, Bethsaida ! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
신약 시대에는 많은 사람들이 활동했던 교통의 중심지가 되었다.
from Jerusalem , from Idumaea, beyond the Jordan , and those from around Tyre and Sidon . A great multitude, hearing what great things he did, came to him.
Again he departed from the borders of Tyre and Sidon , and came to the sea of Galilee , through the middle of the region of Decapolis .
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