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Tyre and Sidon
Tyre and Sidon were Phoenician port cities on the eastern Mediterranean coast, in present-day Lebanon. In the Old Testament they appear as trading partners of Israel and as objects of the prophets' pronouncements of judgment; in the New Testament they appear as Gentile regions reached by the ministry of Jesus.
Articles 38, showing 6
- ZarephathBible
Zarephath was a Phoenician town on the Mediterranean coast between Tyre and Sidon. The prophet Elijah stayed there during a drought and was provided for by a widow. In the New Testament the name appears as "Sarepta."
- Isaiah 23Bible
Isaiah 23 is an oracle announcing the fall of Tyre and Sidon, the Mediterranean trading cities. It closes by declaring that Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years and then rise again, and that its profits will be set apart for the LORD.
- Matthew 15Bible
Matthew 15 recounts the dispute over handwashing and the tradition of the elders, the faith of a Canaanite woman from the region of Tyre and Sidon, healings beside the Sea of Galilee, and the feeding of the four thousand.
- PhoeniciaBible
Phoenicia was the region of port cities, such as Tyre and Sidon, on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean, in what is now Lebanon. In the Old Testament the region appears mainly under the names of its cities, Tyre and Sidon, while the name Phoenicia itself appears in the Book of Acts.
- PhoeniciaBible
Phoenicia is a New Testament place name for the eastern coast of the Mediterranean, roughly the coastal region of present-day Lebanon. Its chief cities were Tyre and Sidon, and in Acts it appears as a gateway through which the gospel spread into Gentile lands.
Verses in the King James Version 10, showing 6
- Matthew 11:21
Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
- Matthew 11:22
But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you.
- Matthew 15:21
Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon.
- Mark 3:8
And from Jerusalem, and from Idumea, and from beyond Jordan; and they about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, when they had heard what great things he did, came unto him.
- Mark 7:24
And from thence he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into an house, and would have no man know it: but he could not be hid.
- Mark 7:31
And again, departing from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, he came unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis.
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