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Phoenicia

Mediterranean coast of Lebanon and northern Israel · both · 4 verses

Phoenicia was the narrow coastal strip of the eastern Mediterranean centered on Tyre and Sidon, in modern Lebanon. Its people were famed seafarers and traders. The name appears in Acts in the King James text.

About Phoenicia

Phoenicia was the narrow coastal strip of the eastern Mediterranean centered on Tyre and Sidon, in modern Lebanon. Its people were famed seafarers and traders.

Its place in the story

The Phoenician cities supplied timber and craftsmen for Israel's temple and traded across the Mediterranean. Their religion, centered on Baal and Ashtoreth, influenced Israel through figures like Jezebel. The prophets addressed the pride of Tyre and Sidon.

Phoenicia in Scripture (KJV)

“Now they which were scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose about Stephen travelled as far as Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to none but unto the Jews only.”

Acts 11:19 (KJV)

“And being brought on their way by the church, they passed through Phenice and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles: and they caused great joy unto all the brethren.”

Acts 15:3 (KJV)

“And finding a ship sailing over unto Phenicia, we went aboard, and set forth.”

Acts 21:2 (KJV)

“And because the haven was not commodious to winter in, the more part advised to depart thence also, if by any means they might attain to Phenice, and there to winter; which is an haven of Crete, and lieth toward the south west and north west.”

Acts 27:12 (KJV)

Where it leads

Jesus ministered in the coasts of Phoenicia, and the region later received the gospel as believers scattered after Stephen's death.

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