Isaiah 23:2

23:2 Lament, ¹  you residents of the coast,

you merchants of Sidon ²  who travel over the sea,

whose agents sail over

Genesis 10:15-19

10:15 Canaan was the father of ³  Sidon his firstborn, ⁴  Heth, ⁵  10:16 the Jebusites, ⁶  Amorites, ⁷  Girgashites, ⁸  10:17 Hivites, ⁹  Arkites, ¹⁰  Sinites, ¹¹  10:18 Arvadites, ¹²  Zemarites, ¹³  and Hamathites. ¹⁴  Eventually the families of the Canaanites were scattered 10:19 and the borders of Canaan extended ¹⁵  from Sidon ¹⁶  all the way to ¹⁷  Gerar as far as Gaza, and all the way to ¹⁸  Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.

Genesis 49:13

49:13 Zebulun will live ¹⁹  by the haven of the sea

and become a haven for ships;

his border will extend to Sidon. ²⁰ 

Joshua 11:8

11:8 The Lord handed them over to Israel and they struck them down and chased them all the way to Greater Sidon, ²¹  Misrephoth Maim, ²²  and the Mizpah Valley to the east. They struck them down until no survivors remained.

¹ tn Or “keep quiet”; NAB “Silence!”

² map For location see Map1-A1; JP3-F3; JP4-F3.

³ tn Heb “fathered.”

⁴ sn Sidon was the foremost city in Phoenicia; here Sidon may be the name of its founder.

⁵ tn Some see a reference to “Hittites” here (cf. NIV), but this seems unlikely. See the note on the phrase “sons of Heth” in Gen 23:3.

⁶ sn The Jebusites were the Canaanite inhabitants of ancient Jerusalem.

⁷ sn Here Amorites refers to smaller groups of Canaanite inhabitants of the mountainous regions of Palestine, rather than the large waves of Amurru, or western Semites, who migrated to the region.

⁸ sn The Girgashites are an otherwise unknown Canaanite tribe, though the name is possibly mentioned in Ugaritic texts (see G. J. Wenham, Genesis [WBC], 1:226).

⁹ sn The Hivites were Canaanite tribes of a Hurrian origin.

¹⁰ sn The Arkites lived in Arka, a city in Lebanon, north of Sidon.

¹¹ sn The Sinites lived in Sin, another town in Lebanon.

¹² sn The Arvadites lived in the city Arvad, located on an island near the mainland close to the river El Kebir.

¹³ sn The Zemarites lived in the town Sumur, north of Arka.

¹⁴ sn The Hamathites lived in Hamath on the Orontes River.

¹⁵ tn Heb “were.”

¹⁶ map For location see Map1-A1; JP3-F3; JP4-F3.

¹⁷ tn Heb “as you go.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “as you go.”

¹⁹ tn The verb שָׁכַן (shakhan) means “to settle,” but not necessarily as a permanent dwelling place. The tribal settlements by the sea would have been temporary and not the tribe’s territory.

²⁰ map For location see Map1-A1; JP3-F3; JP4-F3.

²¹ map For location see Map1-A1; JP3-F3; JP4-F3.

²² tn The meaning of the Hebrew name “Misrephoth Maim” is perhaps “lime-kilns by the water” (see HALOT 2:641).