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Methodist theologian, 1762–1832
Adam Clarke
Canaan begat Zidon - "Canaan begat Bothniam, his first-born, who built Sidon." - T.
This paragraph has Adam for its first word and Abraham for its last. Between the creation of the former and the birth of the latter were 2000 years, almost the one-half of which time Adam himself…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
Canaan begat Zidon his firstborn From the time of David downwards Tyre takes precedence of Zidon in any mention of the Phœnician cities in the O.T., but Zidon may still have been the older of the two…
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