the prophets (Isaiah 23:2, 4, 12; Jeremiah 25:22; 27:3; 47:4; Ezekiel 27:8;
28:21, 22; 32:30; Joel 3:4). Our Lord visited the “coasts” of Tyre and
Zidon = Sidon (q.v.), Matthew 15:21; Mark 7:24; Luke 4:26; and from this
region many came forth to hear him preaching (Mark 3:8; Luke 6:17).
From Sidon, at which the ship put in after leaving Caesarea, Paul finally
sailed for Rome (Acts 27:3, 4).
This city is now a town of 10,000 inhabitants, with remains of walls built
in the twelfth century A.D. In 1855, the sarcophagus of Eshmanezer was
discovered. From a Phoenician inscription on its lid, it appears that he was
a “king of the Sidonians,” probably in the third century B.C., and that his
mother was a priestess of Ashtoreth, “the goddess of the Sidonians.” In
this inscription Baal is mentioned as the chief God of the Sidonians.