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The Sidonians long oppressed Israel (Judges 10:12). From the time of David its glory began to wane, and Tyre , its "virgin daughter" ( Isaiah 23:12 ), rose to its place of pre-eminence. Solomon entered into a matrimonial alliance with the Sidonians, and thus their form of idolatrous worship found a place in the land of Israel ( 1 Kings 11:1 , 33 ).
Today, the Khan al-Ruzz is in a poor state, with the lower floor used for small workshops and the upper floor permanently housing Sidonian and Palestinian families, while the mosque has been replaced by a different structure.
The King of Tyre was the ruler of Tyre, the ancient Phoenician city in what is now Lebanon.The traditional list of 12 kings, with reigns dated to 990–785 BC, is derived from the lost history of Menander of Ephesus as quoted by Josephus in Against Apion I. 116–127. [1]
Tyre juts out from the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, and is located about 80 km (50 mi) south of Beirut.It originally consisted of two distinct urban centres: Tyre itself, which was on an island just 500 to 700m offshore, and the associated settlement of Ushu on the adjacent mainland, later called Palaetyrus, meaning "Old Tyre" in Ancient Greek. [7]
For many centuries, Phoenicians and Canaanites alike were alternatively called Sidonians or Tyrians. Throughout much of the 11th century BC, the biblical books of Joshua, Judges, and Samuel use the term Sidonian to describe all Phoenicians; by the 10th century BC, Tyre rose to become the richest and most powerful Phoenician city state ...
Arah of the Sidonians is a place-name which appears in Joshua 13:4. [27] Other translations render the name Mearah . [ 28 ] The initial syllable me- here is commonly interpreted as a preposition, yielding the translation "from Arah" instead of "Mearah".
Aerial photo of Tyre, c. 1918. Tyre, in Lebanon, is one of the oldest cities in the world, having been continuously inhabited for over 4,700 years.Situated in the Levant on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, Tyre became the leading city of the Phoenician civilization in 969 BC with the reign of the Tyrian king Hiram I, the city of Tyre alongside its Phoenician homeland are also credited with ...
Bordreuil, Pierre; Gubel, Eric (1986). "Bulletin d'antiquités archéologiques du Levant inédites ou méconnues".Syria. Archéologie, Art et histoire.