Sidon

Patriarchs (Abraham–Joseph) Early Patriarch · H6721G
Old Testament

Sidon was the firstborn son of Canaan and the ancestor of the Sidonian people.

Sidon was the firstborn son of Canaan and grandson of Ham, listed in the Table of Nations in Genesis 10:15 and 1 Chronicles 1:13 as the eponymous ancestor of the Phoenician city of Sidon on the Mediterranean coast. The city of Sidon appears frequently in the prophetic literature in oracles of judgment (Ezekiel 28:20–23; Isaiah 23) and in the New Testament as a region visited by Jesus (Mark 7:31).

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