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Tyre, Sidon and Decapolis – Gentile regions

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Announcements › Forums › Mortals and Immortals — November 14th, 2021 › Tyre, Sidon and Decapolis – Gentile regions

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    Tyre and Sidon were Gentile cities located in Phoenecia (modern Lebanon) north of Israel.
    They worshipped the gods of Baal and Ashtaroth.
    Queen Jezebel was a Sidonian.
    The Old Testament mentions Israel’s failure to conquer Sidon in the conquest of the Promised Land (Judges 1:31), and their worship of Sidonian gods on several occasions (Judges 10:6–16; 1 Kings 11)

    Jesus pronounced woes on the Israelite cities of Chorazin and Bethsaida in which he had performed miracles,… stating that given the same opportunity, Tyre and Sidon would have repented, turned from their wickedness and been saved. (Luke 10:13–14 and Matthew 11:20–24)

    Tyrians and Sidonians are also mentioned in helping rebuild the temple in Ezra’s time (Ezra 3:7 (1 Kings 16:31). The Sidonian city of Zarephath was where a widow took care of Elijah and the Lord provided oil for her through the famine; later, the widow’s son became ill, and Elijah raised him from the dead.

    After leaving Tyre and Sidon, where he healed the woman’s daughter of a ‘devil’, Jesus came to the chiefly gentile region of Decapolis, where he healed a man who couldn’t hear and had a speech impediment; then fed 4000 people.

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