Zido’nians, The. The inhabitants of Zidon. They were among the nations of Canaan; left to give the Israelites practice in the art of war, Jdg 3:3, and colonies of them appear to have spread up into the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephothmaim, Jos 13:4; Jos 13:6, whence, in later times, they hewed cedar trees for David and Solomon. 1Ch 22:4.<\/p>\n
They oppressed the Israelites on their first entrance into the country, Jdg 10:12, and appear to have lived a luxurious, reckless life. Jdg 18:7. They were skillful in hewing timber, 1Ki 5:8, and were employed for this purpose by Solomon. They were idolaters, and worshipped Ashtoreth as their tutelary goddess, 1Ki 11:5; 1Ki 11:33; 2Ki 23:13, as well as the sun-god Baal, from whom their king was named. 1Ki 16:31.<\/p>\n
Zidonians, The Zido’nians, The. The inhabitants of Zidon. They were among the nations of Canaan; left to give the Israelites practice in the art of war, Jdg 3:3, and colonies of them appear to have spread up into the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephothmaim, Jos 13:4; Jos 13:6, whence, in later times, they hewed … Continue reading “Zidonians, The”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}