. A dictionary of the Bible .. . elves are the longestPhoenician inscriptions which have come down toour times. A translation of them was publishedby Professor Dietrich at Marburg in 1855, andby Professor Ewald at Gottingen in 1856. Thepredominant idea of them seems to be to warn allmen, under penalty of the monarchs curse, againstopening his sarcophagus or disturbing his repose for<any purpose whatever, especially in order to searchfor treasures, of which he solemnly declares there arenone in his tomb. The kings title is King of theSidonians; and, as is the case with Ethbaal, men-tioned in
. A dictionary of the Bible .. . elves are the longestPhoenician inscriptions which have come down toour times. A translation of them was publishedby Professor Dietrich at Marburg in 1855, andby Professor Ewald at Gottingen in 1856. Thepredominant idea of them seems to be to warn allmen, under penalty of the monarchs curse, againstopening his sarcophagus or disturbing his repose for<any purpose whatever, especially in order to searchfor treasures, of which he solemnly declares there arenone in his tomb. The kings title is King of theSidonians; and, as is the case with Ethbaal, men-tioned in the Book of Kings (IK. xvi. 31), there mustremain a certain doubt whether this was a title ordi-narily assumed by kings of Sidon, or whether it hada wider signification. We learn from the inscriptionthat the kings mother was a priestess of regard to the precise date of the kings reign,there does not seem to be any conclusive conjectures that he reigned not long beforethe 11th century [E. T.]. Coin of Zidon. a The only instance in the Autli. Vers, of the use of Fin a proper 1 Chr. xii. 1 and 20. ZIKLAG ZIDONIANS CnV Ez. xxxii. 30, DnV,Cyn^V Q?^V an! once (I K. xi. 33) fJ^V ;^iSdvtot, exc. Ez. xxxii. 30, ffTpuT-nyol Acrffovp:Sidonii, exc. Ez. xxxii. 30, venatores). The inha-bitants of Zidon. They were among the nationsof Canaan left to practise the Israelites in the artof war (Judg. iii. 3), and colonies of them appearto have spread up into the hill country from Le-banon to Misrephoth-maim (Josh. xiii. 4, 6), whencein later times they hewed cedar-trees for David andSolomon (1 Chr. x.\ii. 4). They oppressed the Is-raelites on their first entrance into the country ( 12), and appear to have lived a luxurious, recklesslife (Judg. xviii. 7) ; they were skilful in hewingtimber (1 K. v. 6), and were employed for this purposeby Solomon. They were idolaters, and worshippedAshtoreth as their tutelary goddess (1 K. xi. 5, 33 ;2 K. xxiii. 1
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