(fishing). The Sidon of Genesis 10:15,19, and the N. T. An ancient and wealthy commercial city of Phoenicia on the Mediterranean coast, twenty miles north of Tyre. It was a limit of the allotment of Asher, but was never conquered (Judg. 1:31; 10:12; 18:7,28). The Zidonians assisted in building the temple (1 Kings 5:6; 1 Chron. 22:4; Ezek. 27:8). Israel imported her idolatries (1 Kings 11:5,33; 2 Kings 23:13). Paul’s ship touched at Sidon (Acts 27:3).