“SIDON
The offspring’s of Sidon the first son of Canaan, were the ancient inhabitants of the coast lands of Tyre Phoenicia which is the present day Lebanon to Misrephoth-maim, whose borders the coastal parts of Israel and Syria in the heart of the seas (Joshua 13:4, 6; Judges 3:3; Ezekiel 27:2-4). When the children of Israel invaded the Canaanites, the kingdom of Sidon among the ones which was invaded. However, the children of Israel were not able to drive them out completely, because the Canaanite Sidonian’s were much stronger and mightier than the children of Israel. The Israelites dwelled with the Canaanite Sidonians, and intermarried with their children and produced biracial children (Judges 1:31; 3:5-6). When the children of Israel turned from God and worshiped baal, the Lord sold them into the hands of the Sidonians who oppressed and crushed the Israelites for eighteen years (Judges 10:6-8, 12).…show more content… The Canaanite Sidonians were skillful timber cutters. They were oarsmen-competitive traders who were the exporters of the cedar woods of Lebanon, ivory, the embroidered fine linens of Egypt, and were shipmen who had vast knowledge of the sea, as they traded merchants throughout many islands and coastlands (I kings 5:6; 9:26-27; Ezekiel 27:3,
