A dictionary of the . nd some think that the Saviour did notenter the cities. Hearers from amongthose people were drawn to his preach-ing. Mark 3:8; Luke 6:17; 11 : 22; Luke 10 : 14. Herodsdispleasure with this region is 12 : 20. The apostle Paul touchedat Zidon on his way to Rome, and visitedthe Christians there. Acts 27 : 3. Secular History.—Homer makes specialmention of the skill of the Zidonianworkmen. The embroidered robes ofAndromache, the silver bowl given as aprize by Achilles at the games in honorof Patrocles, the bowl which Menelausgave Telemachus, the p
A dictionary of the . nd some think that the Saviour did notenter the cities. Hearers from amongthose people were drawn to his preach-ing. Mark 3:8; Luke 6:17; 11 : 22; Luke 10 : 14. Herodsdispleasure with this region is 12 : 20. The apostle Paul touchedat Zidon on his way to Rome, and visitedthe Christians there. Acts 27 : 3. Secular History.—Homer makes specialmention of the skill of the Zidonianworkmen. The embroidered robes ofAndromache, the silver bowl given as aprize by Achilles at the games in honorof Patrocles, the bowl which Menelausgave Telemachus, the purple of fierceAchilles, were specimens of Zidonianhandicraft. Zidonian ships were pres-ent at the siege of Troy, and Herod-otus declares that the Zidonian shipsin the fleet of Xerxes were the best andthe most i-enowned of the famous ar-mada. Xerxes sat in a Zidonian ship,and the king of Zidon sat near to council. Zidon flourished under theChaldasan and Persian dominion. Itrevolted against the Persians in the time917. ZID ZIM of Artaxerxes III. Ochus, but was sub-dued, and 40,000 of its citizens perishedin the conflagration of the city, the firebeing kindled by the people gates of the city were willinglyopened to Alexander the Great after thebattle of Issus, b. c. 333. During theRoman period it had its own archons,senate, and national council. A bishopof Zidon attended the council of Nicaea,A. d. 325. After the conquest of Syriaby the Muslims, A. D. 636, Zidon sur-rendered to these new masters. Duringthe crusades it experienced terrible vicis-situdes. Baldwin I. took it, after a sixweeks siege, in a. d. 1111 ; Saladin razedthe town and its fortifications in 1187;the Crusaders again gained possessionof it in 1197, but could not retain thetown, which was once more was rebuilt and razed, refortified andagain devastated. In 1291 it became thepermanent possession of the Muslims,and was destroyed. For several centuriesit was neglected, but gradual
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