The Bible hand-book: an introduction to the study of Sacred Scripture . PRESENT ASPECT OF THE ANCIENT PORT OF SIDON. (Sketched from the Kahn.) The name of Sidon (in the Hebrew, Tsidon or Zidon) occurs in the Pentateuch,—first in Gen. x. 19, and also mention is after made of it by classical writers,—by Homerseveral times. Strabo speaks of this famous city of old, as noted for its advance inphilosophy, geometry, :md navigation; and 1000 years before Christ, Solomon saysof it, that, none had the skill to hew timber like the Sidonians. In its remarka-ble career from 720 b. c, when it was taken by
The Bible hand-book: an introduction to the study of Sacred Scripture . PRESENT ASPECT OF THE ANCIENT PORT OF SIDON. (Sketched from the Kahn.) The name of Sidon (in the Hebrew, Tsidon or Zidon) occurs in the Pentateuch,—first in Gen. x. 19, and also mention is after made of it by classical writers,—by Homerseveral times. Strabo speaks of this famous city of old, as noted for its advance inphilosophy, geometry, :md navigation; and 1000 years before Christ, Solomon saysof it, that, none had the skill to hew timber like the Sidonians. In its remarka-ble career from 720 b. c, when it was taken by the Assyrians and Persians, it wentthrough constant vicissitudes of capture, siege, destruction, and rebuilding. Page SEA-COAST NEAR MODERN the strange form of vegetation of closely-matted, leafless bushes, allsloping towards the Mediterranean Sea.
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