. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . ed, likewise, by the use of Sidonians as =Phenicians, or Canaanites (xiii. 6; Judg. xviii. 7);and by the reason assigned for there being none todeliver the people of Laish from massacre, that they were far from the Zidonians, though theTyrians were much nearer and of substantially thesame religion (xviii. 28). From the time of Solomonto the invasion of Nebuchadnezzar Zidon is not oftendirectly mentioned in the Bible, and it appears tohave been subordinate to Tyre. When the people 1214 ZID ZID called Zidonians is mentioned, it sometimes seemsthat the
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . ed, likewise, by the use of Sidonians as =Phenicians, or Canaanites (xiii. 6; Judg. xviii. 7);and by the reason assigned for there being none todeliver the people of Laish from massacre, that they were far from the Zidonians, though theTyrians were much nearer and of substantially thesame religion (xviii. 28). From the time of Solomonto the invasion of Nebuchadnezzar Zidon is not oftendirectly mentioned in the Bible, and it appears tohave been subordinate to Tyre. When the people 1214 ZID ZID called Zidonians is mentioned, it sometimes seemsthat the Phenicians of the plain of Zidon are meant(1 K. v. 6, xi. 1, 5, 33, xvi. 31; 2 K. xxiii. 13). Andthis seems to be equally true of merchants of Zi-don, Zidon, and daughter of Zidon, in Is. xxiii. There is no doubt, however, that Zidon itself,the city properly so called, was threatened by Joel(iii. 4) and Jeremiah (xxvii. 3). Still, all that isknown respecting it during the epoch is very scanty,amounting to scarcely more than that one of its. Modern Saida = Zidon or Sidon.—(Kitto.) sources of gain was trade in slaves (Slavk), theZidonians selling inhabitants of Palestine ; that thecity was governed by kings (Jer. xxvii. 3, xxv. 22);that, previous to Nebuchadnezzars invasion, it hadfurnished mariners to Tyre (Ez. xxvii. 8); that, atone period it was subject, in some sense, to Tyre;and that, when Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, in-vaded Phenicia, Zidon seized the opportunity to re-volt. During the Persian domination, Zidon seemsto have attained its highest prosperity; and it isrecorded that, toward the close of that period, itfar excelled all other Phenician cities in wealth andimportance. Very probably the long siege of Tyreby Nebuchadnezzar had tended to enrich Zidon atthe expense of Tyre. In the expedition of Xerxesagainst Greece, the Sidonians were a preeminentlyimportant element of his naval power. But whilethe Persians in the time of Artaxerxes Ochus weremaking preparations i
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