Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 28:20
Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
20 26. Prophecy against Sidon
See on ch. Eze 25:1. The passage has three parts:
(1) Eze 28:20-23. The Lord shall send great judgments on Zidon, by which means he shall get his greatness and holiness recognised, and they shall know that he is God. (2) Eze 28:24. Thus shall all that vex Israel round about come to an end and cease. (3) Eze 28:25-26. Israel when restored shall thus dwell securely, all that were hostile to her having been removed; and she shall know Jehovah her God to be God alone. These words suggest the explanation both of the judgments upon the nations and of the position which they occupy in the prophet’s Book. See introd to ch. 25.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Again, the word of the Lord came unto me,…. After the prophecy of the destruction of the prince and king of Tyre, concerning a neighbouring city:
saying as follows:
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Prophecy Against Sidon and Promise for Israel
The threatening word against Sidon is very brief, and couched in general terms, because as a matter of fact the prophecy against Tyre involved the announcement of the fall of Sidon, which was dependent upon it; and, as we have already observed, Sidon received a special word of God simply for the purpose of making up the number of the heathen nations mentioned to the significant number seven. The word of God against Sidon brings to a close the cycle of predictions of judgment directed against those heathen nations which had given expression to malicious pleasure at the overthrow of the kingdom of Judah. There is therefore appended a promise for Israel (Eze 28:25, Eze 28:26), which is really closely connected with the threatening words directed against the heathen nations, and for which the way is prepared by Eze 28:24. The correspondence of (I shall be sanctified in her) in Eze 28:22 to (I shall be sanctified in them) in Eze 28:25, serves to place the future fate of Israel in antithesis not merely to the future fate of Sidon, but, as Eze 28:24 and Eze 28:26 clearly show, to that of all the heathen nations against which the previous threats have been directed.
Eze 28:20-24 And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying, Eze 28:21. Son of man, direct thy face towards Sidon, and prophesy against it, Eze 28:22. And say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I will be against thee, O Sidon, and will glorify myself in the midst of thee; and they shall know that I am Jehovah, when I execute judgments upon it, and sanctify myself upon it. Eze 28:23. I will send pestilence into it, and blood into its streets; slain will fall in the midst of it by the sword, which cometh upon it from every side; and they shall learn that I am Jehovah. Eze 28:24. And there shall be no more to the house of Israel a malignant thorn and smarting sting from all round about them, who despise them; but they shall learn that I am the Lord Jehovah. – Jehovah will glorify Himself as the Lord upon Sidon, as He did before upon Pharaoh (compare Exo 14:4, Exo 14:16-17, to which the word in Eze 28:22, an unusual expression for Ezekiel, evidently points). The glorification is effected by judgments, through which He proves Himself to be holy upon the enemies of His people. He executes the judgments through pestilence and blood (vid., Eze 5:17; Eze 38:22), i.e., through disease and bloodshed occasioned by war, so that men fall, slain by the sword (cf. Eze 6:7). Instead of we have the intensive form , which is regarded by Ewald and Hitzig as a copyist’s error, because it is only met with here. Through these judgments the Lord will liberate His people Israel from all round about, who increase its suffering by their contempt. These thoughts sum up in Eze 28:24 the design of God’s judgments upon all the neighbouring nations which are threatened in Ezekiel 25-28, and thus prepare the way for the concluding promise in Eze 28:25 and Eze 28:26. The figure of the sting and thorn points back to Num 33:55, where it is said that the Canaanites whom Israel failed to exterminate would become thorns in its eyes and stings in its sides. As Israel did not keep itself free from the Canaanitish nature of the heathen nations, God caused it to fell these stings of heathenism. Having been deeply hurt by them, it was now lying utterly prostrate with its wounds. The sins of Canaan, to which Israel had given itself up, had occasioned the destruction of Jerusalem (Ezekiel 16). But Israel is not to succumb to its wounds. On the contrary, by destroying the heathen powers, the Lord will heal His people of the wounds which its heathen neighbours have inflicted upon it. , synonymous with in Eze 2:6, a word only found in Ezekiel. , on the contrary, is taken from Lev 13:51 and Lev 14:44, where it is applied to malignant leprosy (see the comm. on the former passage). – For , see Eze 16:57 and Eze 25:6.
Eze 28:25-26 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, When I shall gather the house of Israel out of the peoples among whom they have been scattered, I shall sanctify myself upon them before the eyes of the heathen nations, and they will dwell in their land which I have given to my servant Jacob. Eze 28:26. They will dwell there securely, and build houses and plant vineyards, and will dwell securely when I execute judgments upon all who despise them of those round about them; and they shall learn that I Jehovah am their God. – Whilst the heathen nations succumb to the judgments of God, Israel passes on to a time of blessed peace. The Lord will gather His people from their dispersion among the heathen, bring them into the land which He gave to the patriarch Jacob, His servant, and give them in that land rest, security, and true prosperity. (For the fact itself, compare Eze 11:17; Eze 20:41; Eze 36:22.)
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
| The Fall of Zidon. | B. C. 588. |
20 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 21 Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesy against it, 22 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Zidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of thee: and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her. 23 For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her streets; and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know that I am the LORD. 24 And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about them, that despised them; and they shall know that I am the Lord GOD. 25 Thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob. 26 And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, when I have executed judgments upon all those that despise them round about them; and they shall know that I am the LORD their God.
God’s glory is his great end, both in all the good and in all the evil which proceed out of the mouth of the Most High; so we find in these verses. 1. God will be glorified in the destruction of Zidon, a city that lay near to Tyre, was more ancient, but not so considerable, had a dependence upon it and stood and fell with it. God says here, I am against thee, O Zidon! and I will be glorified in the midst of thee, v. 22. And again, “Those that would not know be gentler methods shall be made to know that I am the Lord, and I alone, and that I am a just and jealous God, when I shall have executed judgments in her, destroying judgments, when I shall have done execution according to justice and according to the sentence passed, and so shall be sanctified in her.” The Zidonians, it should seem, were more addicted to idolatry than the Tyrians were, who, being men of business and large conversation, were less under the power of bigotry and superstition. The Zidonians were noted for the worship of Ashtaroth; Solomon introduced it, 1 Kings xi. 5. Jezebel was daughter to the king of Zidon, who brought the worship of Baal into Israel (1 Kings xvi. 31); so that God had been much dishonoured by the Zidonians. Now, says he, I will be glorified, I will be sanctified. The Zidonians were borderers upon the land of Israel, where God was known, and where they might have got the knowledge of him and have learned to glorify him; but, instead of that, they seduced Israel to the worship of their idols. Note, When God is sanctified he is glorified, for his holiness is his glory; and those whom he is not sanctified and glorified by he will be sanctified and glorified upon, by executing judgments upon them, which declare him a just avenger of his own and his people’s injured honour. The judgments that shall be executed upon Zidon are war and pestilence, two wasting depopulating judgments, v. 23. They are God’s messengers, which he sends on his errands, and they shall accomplish that for which he sends them. Pestilence and blood shall be sent into her streets; there the dead bodies of those shall lie who perished, some by the plague, occasioned perhaps through ill diet when the city was besieged, and some by the sword of the enemy, most likely the Chaldean armies, when the city was taken, and all were put to the sword. Thus the wounded shall be judged; when they are dying of their wounds they shall judge themselves, and others shall say, They justly fall. Or, as some read it, They shall be punished by the sword, that sword which has commission to destroy on every side. It is God that judges, and he will overcome. Nor is it Tyre and Zidon only on which God would execute judgments, but on all those that despised his people Israel, and triumphed in their calamities; for this was now God’s controversy with the nations that were round about them, v. 26. Note, When God’s people are under his correcting hand for their faults he takes care, as he did concerning malefactors that were scourged, that they shall not seem vile to those that are about them, and therefore takes it ill of those who despise them and so help forward the affliction when he is but a little displeased, Zech. i. 15. God regards them even in their low estate; and therefore let not men despise them. 2. God will be glorified in the restoration of his people to their former safety and prosperity. God had been dishonoured by the sins of his people, and their sufferings too had given occasion to the enemy to blaspheme (Isa. lii. 5); but God will now both cure them of their sins and ease them of their troubles, and so will be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, will recover the honour of his holiness, to the satisfaction of all the world, v. 25. For, (1.) They shall return to the possession of their own land again: I will gather the house of Israel out of their dispersions, in answer to that prayer (Ps. cvi. 27), Save us, O Lord our God! and gather us from among the heathen; and in pursuance of that promise (Deut. xxx. 4), Thence will the Lord thy God gather thee. Being gathered, they shall be brought in a body, to dwell in the land that I have given to my servant Jacob. God had an eye to the ancient grant, in bringing them back, for that remained in force, and the discontinuance of the possession was not a defeasance of the right. He that gave it will again give it. (2.) They shall enjoy great tranquillity there. When those that have been vexatious to them are taken off they shall live in quietness; there shall be no more a pricking brier nor a grieving thorn, v. 24. They shall have a happy settlement, for they shall build houses, and plant vineyards; and they shall enjoy a happy security and serenity there; they shall dwell safely, shall dwell with confidence, and there shall be none to disquiet them or make them afraid, v. 26. This never had full accomplishment in the body of that people, for after their return out of captivity they were ever and anon molested by some bad neighbour or other. Nor has the gospel-church been ever quite free from pricking briers and grieving thorns; yet sometimes the church has rest, and believers always dwell safely under the divine protection and may be quiet from the fear of evil. But the full accomplishment of this promise is reserved for the heavenly Canaan, when all the saints shall be gathered together, and every thing that offends shall be removed, and all griefs and fears for ever banished.
Fuente: Matthew Henry’s Whole Bible Commentary
JUDGMENT ON SIDON
Verses 20-23:
Verse 20, 21 call upon Ezekiel to set his face to prophesy the word of the Lord toward Sidon, of her coming judgment, Eze 6:2; Eze 25:2. Zidon was a most ancient seaport city, mentioned first, Gen 10:15; Gen 10:19. It was founded by Sidon the firstborn son of Canaan; See also Isa 23:2; Isa 23:4; Jer 25:22; Jer 27:3; Eze 27:8. Zidon was a chief city of the ancient Phoenicians, famous for its fishery, noted for its fine glassware, and a center of skilled navigators, astronomers and philosophers. It was celebrated, even in the days of Jacob, as a great shipping city, Gen 49:13; Jos 11:8; Jos 19:28. It was never conquered by Israel, Jdg 1:31; Jdg 10:6. In Mat 11:22 Tyre and Sidon are associated together.
Verse 22 declares that God was against Zidon and was determined to be glorified in her midst when he executed judgments in her and manifested His holiness in her, v. 26; Eze 30:19; Eze 39:13; Exo 14:4; Exo 14:17; Jer 21:13; Jer 50:31; Nah 1:6; Psa 9:16.
Verse 23 continues to discuss that the Lord would send pestilence into Sidon and blood to her streets, Eze 38:22; The wounded of her people were to fall in her streets and in her midst by the sword, on every hand. Then would they come to recognize the Lord as the Holy and Just God of the universe, Jer 51:52.
Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary
IV. THE RIVAL OF TYRE 28:2024
TRANSLATION
(20) And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, (21) Son of man, set your face against Sidon, and prophesy against her, (22) and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold I am against you, O Sidon, and I will be glorified in the midst of You; and they shall know that I am the LORD when I execute judgments in her, and manifest My holiness in her; (23) for I shall send into her pestilence and blood in her streets; and the slain shall fall in the midst of her, by the sword upon her on every side. Then they shall know that I am the LORD. (24) And there shall be no more for the house of Israel a pricking brier nor a piercing thorn of any that are round about them, who treated them with contempt; and they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
COMMENTS
Not only would Tyre experience the wrath of the living God, her rival to the north would fall as well. In early times Sidon was larger and more prestigious than Tyre. But from the eleventh to the fourth century B.C. Tyre controlled, almost without dispute on the part of Sidon, the affairs of Phoenicia. In Biblical prophecy the two cities are closely connected (cf. Isaiah 23). As far as the Hebrew prophets were concerned, Tyre and Sidon were seaside partners in sin.[434] However, Sidon was sufficiently independent from Tyre to justify a separate oracle, sufficiently identified with Tyre not to call for any longer oracle. No indication of Sidons offenses is given in this oracle; but it is assumed that her sins were the same as those of Tyre and required a similar punishment.
[434] Grider. BBC, p. 582.
God declares that He is an adversary of Sidon as well as of Tyre. By dispensing a just judgment on this city, God would be vindicated. He would receive glory and He would be sanctified (reverenced) as a result of such activity (Eze. 28:22).
Sidon would experience the pestilence which usually accompanied ancient sieges. When the enemies breached the walls the blood would flow in her streets. The slain would fall in heaps[435] (Eze. 28:23). When all of this occurred men would acknowledge that the doom of Sidon had not occurred by chance, but was an act of God (Eze. 28:24). Such judgments would serve the purpose of removing all source of danger, opposition, and ridicule (a pricking brier, a piercing thorn)[436] to the people of God. In time past Israel had been wounded by those thorns and briers, i.e., had been tainted by the wicked worship and lascivious life of these Canaanite neighbors. But in the future restoration the corrupting Canaanite influence would be forever removed.
[435] A rare form of the verb fall is used in this verse which probably denotes intensity.
[436] The same words are used in Num. 33:55 of the Canaanite peoples. Ezekiel applies the terms to the Phoenician cities which were the last vestige of the old Canaanite culture.
The bloody history of Sidon after the time of Ezekiel[437] can be summarized as follows:
[437] The city was destroyed by the Assyrian king Esarhaddon in 677 B.C. long before the time of Ezekiel. However, Sidon grew up again. For a time (609593 B.C.) the city was dominated by the Egyptians. Nebuchadnezzar conquered the place in 593 B.C.
1. Sidon was devastated during Nebuchadnezzars thirteen-year siege of Tyre (587572 B.C.).
2. With the fall of Babylon, Sidon regained some of its old importance. For a time the city served faithfully the new Persian world rulers. However, in 351 B.C. the Sidonians revolted against Artaxerxes II Ochus. In the face of the siege of the Persian monarch the king of Sidon fled, leaving the city to its fate. The city fathers ordered all ships in the harbor to be destroyed to prevent any flight by the citizens. More than forty thousand are said to have lost their lives when the city was sacked and burned.
3. Sidon meekly surrendered to Alexander the Great in 333 B.C.
4. Under the Seleucid rulers, Sidon again attained a rather independent status.
5. In 64 B.C. Pompey imposed Roman rule throughout Phoenicia. Sidon still flourished, but its importance gradually vanished.
6. In the days of the crusades Sidon was taken and retaken several times by opposing forces.
7. Under Turkish rule the site of Sidon continued to suffer tribulation. In 1840 Sidon was bombarded by the combined fleets of England, France and Turkey.
8. The modern Arab city of Saeda (population, 50,000) which occupies the site of ancient Sidon, has not escaped the bloody religious warfare which erupted in Lebanon in 1976.
Fuente: College Press Bible Study Textbook Series
‘And the word of Yahweh came to me saying, “Son of man, set your face towards Zidon, and prophesy against it, and say ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh. Behold I am against you O Zidon, and I will be glorified in the midst of you.’ ” ’
Zidon is to be included in the condemnation of her co-partner. By what would happen to Zidon Yahweh would be glorified, as He would by what happened to Tyre. The great partnership that exalted itself against Yahweh would be destroyed. The antipathy between the gods of Tyre and Zidon and the God of Israel was a long running one, continuing since the days of Elijah, when Phoenician religion under Ahab and Jezebel had reduced the true worship of Yahweh to dire straits. Now the final triumph of Yahweh would be revealed.
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
The Oracle Against Zidon ( Eze 28:20-24 ).
This short oracle against Zidon seems almost tacked on to those to Tyre as a postscript. Perhaps it was in order to make up the number seven, or perhaps it was simply in order to make clear that Zidon shared Tyre’s condemnation, but it makes clear that after the first four nations, condemned together, the two important targets were Tyre and Egypt. Zidon, who through the centuries had been twinned with Tyre, is included as a co-partner with Tyre, sharing her fate, and in fact no charge is laid against her, probably because that is seen as included in the oracles against Tyre with which she had such close relations. If we keep bad company we must accept the consequences.
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
Prophecy Against Zidon
v. 20. Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, v. 21. Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, v. 22. and say, Thus saith the Lord God, v. 23. For I will send into her pestilence and blood into her streets, v. 24. And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, v. 25. Thus saith the Lord God, v. 26. And they shall dwell safely therein,
Fuente: The Popular Commentary on the Bible by Kretzmann
The judgment upon Zidon is but short; but that one single passage in it is enough: Behold I am against thee, O Zidon, saith the Lord God!
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Eze 28:20 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ver. 20. Again the word of the Lord. ] See Eze 18:1 .
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
NASB (UPDATED) TEXT: Eze 28:20-24
20And the word of the LORD came to me saying, 21Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, prophesy against her 22and say, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD,
Behold, I am against you, O Sidon,
And I will be glorified in your midst.
Then they will know that I am the LORD when I execute judgments in her,
And I will manifest My holiness in her.
23For I will send pestilence to her
And blood to her streets,
And the wounded will fall in her midst
By the sword upon her on every side;
Then they will know that I am the LORD.
24And there will be no more for the house of Israel a prickling brier or a painful thorn from any round about them who scorned them; then they will know that I am the Lord GOD.
Eze 28:20-24 This is the judgment against Sidon, another Phoenician city linked with Tyre.
Eze 28:21 As Eze 28:2 starts out with a command say (BDB 55, KB 65,Qal IMPERATIVE), so too, this judgment starts with two commands.
1. Set your face against, BDB 962, KB 1321, Qal IMPERATIVE, cf. Eze 6:2; Eze 13:7; Eze 15:7; Eze 20:46; Eze 21:2; Eze 29:2; Eze 35:2; Eze 38:2
2. Prophesy, BDB 612, KB 659, Niphal IMPERATIVE, cf. Eze 4:7; Eze 11:4; Eze 13:17; Eze 25:2; Eze 29:2; Eze 34:2; Eze 35:2; Eze 36:6; Eze 38:2; Eze 39:1
Eze 28:22
NASB, NKJV,
LXX, PESHITTAI shall be glorified
NRSV, JPSOA,
NIVI will gain glory
NJB, REBI will show My glory
Ezekiel is all about the glory of YHWH! The glory is for the purpose of revelation. YHWH wants the people of Phoenicia to know Him. Judgment is an instrument of revelation (i.e., I shall manifest My holiness in her, cf. Eze 28:25). He is always acting for the redemption of those created in His image and likeness!
Fuente: You Can Understand the Bible: Study Guide Commentary Series by Bob Utley
Eze 28:20-26
Eze 28:20-26
“And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, Son of man, Set thy face toward Sidon, and prophesy against it, and say, I am against thee, O Sidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of thee; and they shall know that I am Jehovah, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her. For I will send pestilence into her, and blood into her streets; and the wounded shall fall in the midst of her, with the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know that I am Jehovah. And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor a hurting thorn of any that are round about them, that did despite unto them; and they shall know that I am the Lord Jehovah. Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the nations, then shall they dwell in their own land which I gave to my servant Jacob. And they shall dwell securely therein; yea, they shall build houses, and plant vineyards, and shall dwell securely, when I have executed judgments upon all that do them despite round about them; and they shall know that I am Jehovah their God.”
PROPHECY AGAINST SIDON
“Prophesy against it (Sidon) …” (Eze 28:21). There were many things in Sidon that called for the judgment of God against them, not the least of which was Jezebel’s outrageous establishment of the entire apparatus of Baal worship in the very heart of Israel itself.
“Thus the Sidonian `brier’ had indeed pricked Israel”; but God here promises judgments against Sidon that will remove such a nuisance from the harassing position they had enjoyed so long in their dealings with God’s people.
Also, the last two verses here indicate the return of Israel to Palestine and God’s gathering of them from all the nations into which they had been scattered.
“All of these Phoenician cities had been a constant source of temptation and annoyance to God’s people for ages; and the promise here is that as soon as God shall have restored the captives to Palestine and has executed judgments upon the pagan nations which had gloated over their captivity, the Israelites should again enjoy all of their ancient privileges; and the nations would be compelled to ascribe to Jehovah, as the covenant God of Israel, all of the honor and glory that were due him.
The fact that very little of this ever actually came to pass as prophesied here was due to the widespread failure of the Jews to live up to the solemn terms and conditions upon which such glorious promises rested. Jer 17:7-10 should be read in connection with every wonderful promise that God made to Israel or to any other nation.
By the times of Jesus Christ, racial Israel had totally departed from the God of their fathers; and, as spelled out by the apostle Paul in the first two chapters of Romans, the hardening of the apostate people had become final; and from the racial stock of the old Israel Jesus Christ was able to rescue only a small remnant from which nucleus the New Israel, that is, the Church of Jesus Christ was launched with the life-giving gospel of the New Dispensation. Because of this near-universal sinfulness of the Old Israel, many of the glorious things God promised and had intended to do for them never occurred at all.
Prophecies against Tyre and Sidon – Eze 27:1 to Eze 28:26
Open It
1. For what era in the past do you feel nostalgic? Why?
2. What do you consider the most beautiful city you have ever visited?
3. What do you consider to be an ideal relationship with your neighbors?
Explore It
4. For what city outside of Israel did God instruct Ezekiel to “take up a lament”? (Eze 27:1-2)
5. With what riches and skills was Tyre generously endowed? (Eze 27:3-9)
6. From what countries did some of Tyres soldiers hail? (Eze 27:10-11)
7. What were some of the exotic products that were traded through Tyre? (Eze 27:12-24)
8. What disaster did Ezekiel predict would bring an end to Tyre? (Eze 27:25-36)
9. To whom was Ezekiel instructed to speak Gods Word? (Eze 28:1-2)
10. What chain of events brought the ruler of Tyre to his current estimation of himself? (Eze 28:2-5)
11. What judgment did God declare for the ruler who thought of himself as a god? (Eze 28:6-10)
12. What were some of the glories of Tyre for which people would mourn? (Eze 28:11-14)
13. What “before” and “after” pictures are presented of the character of the king of Tyre? (Eze 28:15-19)
14. What other trading kingdom besides Tyre was to come under Gods judgment? (Eze 28:20-24)
15. What reversal of fortunes would eventually take place between Israel and her neighbors? (Eze 28:25-26)
Get It
16. How would you characterize a person with the description Ezekiel gives of Tyres former “model” state?
17. What do you suppose is meant by the title of “guardian cherub” used to describe Tyre?
18. In what ways can Gods punishment of an individual or society influence the attitudes and actions of those who observe?
19. What choice do we have about how we view our prosperity?
In what way does pride separate us from God?
Apply It
20. What test can you devise to determine whether the good gifts God has given you are being used to His glory?
21. What blessing might become a temptation to seek security outside of God alone?
Fuente: Old and New Testaments Restoration Commentary
Eze 28:20-21. Zidon was another city of Phoenicia about 20 miles north of Tyrus, It is otherwise spelled Sidon and is often referred to in other parts of the Bible including the New Testament. It was inferior to Tyrus yet was an important city in ancient times. The Lord bad the prophet to deliver some warnings against that place because it had oppressed His people.
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
C. Judgment on Sidon 28:20-24
Fuente: Expository Notes of Dr. Constable (Old and New Testaments)
Another oracle concerning Sidon, Tyre’s neighbor about 20 miles to the north, came to the prophet from the Lord. God may have condemned Sidon because of its close association with Tyre, though it was responsible for its own actions.