Genesis 10:15

10:15 Canaan was the father of ¹  Sidon his firstborn, ²  Heth, ³ 

Genesis 10:19

10:19 and the borders of Canaan extended ⁴  from Sidon ⁵  all the way to ⁶  Gerar as far as Gaza, and all the way to ⁷  Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.

Joshua 19:29

19:29 It then turned toward Ramah as far as the fortified city of Tyre, ⁸  turned to Hosah, and ended at the sea near Hebel, Aczib,

Isaiah 23:1-4

The Lord Will Judge Tyre

23:1 Here is a message about Tyre:

Wail, you large ships, ⁹ 

for the port is too devastated to enter! ¹⁰ 

From the land of Cyprus ¹¹  this news is announced to them.

23:2 Lament, ¹²  you residents of the coast,

you merchants of Sidon ¹³  who travel over the sea,

whose agents sail over 23:3 the deep waters! ¹⁴ 

Grain from the Shihor region, ¹⁵ 

crops grown near the Nile ¹⁶  she receives; ¹⁷ 

she is the trade center ¹⁸  of the nations.

23:4 Be ashamed, O Sidon,

for the sea ¹⁹  says this, O fortress of the sea:

“I have not gone into labor

or given birth;

I have not raised young men

or brought up young women.” ²⁰ 

Matthew 11:21-22

11:21 “Woe to you, Chorazin! ²¹  Woe to you, Bethsaida! If ²²  the miracles ²³  done in you had been done in Tyre ²⁴  and Sidon, ²⁵  they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. 11:22 But I tell you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you!

[10:15]  ¹ tn Heb “fathered.”

[10:15]  ² sn Sidon was the foremost city in Phoenicia; here Sidon may be the name of its founder.

[10:15]  ³ 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.

[10:19]  ⁴ tn Heb “were.”

[10:19]  ⁵ map For location see Map1 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.

[10:19]  ⁶ tn Heb “as you go.”

[10:19]  ⁷ tn Heb “as you go.”

[19:29]  ⁸ map For location see Map1 A2; Map2 G2; Map4 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.

[23:1]  ⁹ tn Heb “ships of Tarshish.” This probably refers to large ships either made in or capable of traveling to the distant western port of Tarshish.

[23:1]  ¹⁰ tc The Hebrew text reads literally, “for it is destroyed, from a house, from entering.” The translation assumes that the mem (מ) on בַּיִת (bayit) was originally an enclitic mem suffixed to the preceding verb. This assumption allows one to take בַּיִת as the subject of the preceding verb. It is used in a metaphorical sense for the port city of Tyre. The preposition min (מִן) prefixed to בּוֹא (bo’) indicates negative consequence: “so that no one can enter.” See BDB 583 s.v. מִן 7.b.

[23:1]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the Kittim,” a designation for the people of Cyprus. See HALOT 504-05 s.v. כִּתִּיִּים.

[23:2]  ¹² tn Or “keep quiet”; NAB “Silence!”

[23:2]  ¹³ map For location see Map1 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.

[23:3]  ¹⁴ tc The Hebrew text (23:2b-3a) reads literally, “merchant of Sidon, the one who crosses the sea, they filled you, and on the deep waters.” Instead of מִלְאוּךְ (mil’ukh, “they filled you”) the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a reads מלאכיך (“your messengers”). The translation assumes an emendation of מִלְאוּךְ to מַלְאָכָו (mal’akhav, “his messengers”), taking the vav (ו) on וּבְמַיִם (uvÿmayim) as improperly placed; instead it should be the final letter of the preceding word.

[23:3]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “seed of Shihor.” “Shihor” probably refers to the east branch of the Nile. See Jer 2:18 and BDB 1009 s.v. שִׁיחוֹר.

[23:3]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “the harvest of the Nile.”

[23:3]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “[is] her revenue.”

[23:3]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “merchandise”; KJV, ASV “a mart of nations”; NLT “the merchandise mart of the world.”

[23:4]  ¹⁹ tn J. N. Oswalt (Isaiah [NICOT], 1:430-31) sees here a reference to Yam, the Canaanite god of the sea. He interprets the phrase מָעוֹז הַיָּם (ma’oz hayyam, “fortress of the sea”) as a title of Yam, translating “Mighty One of the Sea.” A more traditional view is that the phrase refers to Sidon.

[23:4]  ²⁰ tn Or “virgins” (KJV, ASV, NAB, NASB).

[11:21]  ²¹ sn Chorazin was a town of Galilee that was probably fairly small in contrast to Bethsaida and is otherwise unattested. Bethsaida was declared a polis by the tetrarch Herod Philip, sometime after a.d. 30.

[11:21]  ²² tn This introduces a second class (contrary to fact) condition in the Greek text.

[11:21]  ²³ tn Or “powerful deeds.”

[11:21]  ²⁴ map For location see Map1 A2; Map2 G2; Map4 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.

[11:21]  ²⁵ sn Tyre and Sidon are two other notorious OT cities (Isa 23; Jer 25:22; 47:4). The remark is a severe rebuke, in effect: “Even the sinners of the old era would have responded to the proclamation of the kingdom, unlike you!”