Ezekiel 28:21
“Son of man, set your face against Sidon and prophesy against her.
BSB
ASV
Son of man, set thy face toward Sidon, and prophesy against it,
KJV
Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesy against it,
Prophecy against Zidon. Zidon (mod. Saida) was more ancient than Tyre and was the original metropolis of Phoenicia Gen 10:19, but in the times of Phoenician greatness it ever played a subordinate part. Only once Jdg 10:12 do we find the “Zidonians” in conflict with Israel. The evil which they did was the seducing them to idolatry (compare Eze 28:24), as in the case of Jezebel, daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Zidonians 1Ki 16:31. The capture of Tyre by Nebuchadnezzar increased the importance of Zidon, which was a wealthy and flourishing town when Artaxerxes Ochus destroyed it.
Zidon--famous for its fishery (from a root, Zud, "to fish"); and afterwards for its wide extended commerce; its artistic elegance was proverbial. Founded by Canaan's first-born (Ge 10:15). Tyre was an offshoot from it, so that it was involved in the same overthrow by the Chaldeans as Tyre.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Jeremiah 25:22all the kings of Tyre and Sidon; the kings of the coastlands across the sea;
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For the day has come to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every remaining ally. Indeed, the LORD is about to destroy the Philistines, the remnant from the coasts…
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Ezekiel 27:8The men of Sidon and Arvad were your oarsmen. Your men of skill, O Tyre, were there as your captains.
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the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Later the Canaanite clans were scattered,
And Hiram sent his servants, men who knew the sea, to serve in the fleet with Solomon’s servants.
Men of Arvad and Helech manned your walls all around, and the men of Gammad were in your towers. They hung their shields around your walls; they perfected your beauty.
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Ezekiel 6:2“Son of man, set your face against the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them.
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With hooks they caged him and brought him to the king of Babylon. They brought him into captivity so that his roar was heard no longer on the mountains of Israel.
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Ezekiel 25:2“Son of man, set your face against the Ammonites and prophesy against them.
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Concerning the Ammonites, this is what the LORD says: “Has Israel no sons? Is he without heir? Why then has Milcom taken possession of Gad? Why have his people settled in their cities?
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Genesis 10:15And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,
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Observe what I command you this day. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
“Command the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land of Canaan, it will be allotted to you as an inheritance with these boundaries:
