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Ezekiel 27:19

Three dots are used where it is no longer possible to be certain of the true sense of the Hebrew words, and for this reason no attempt has been made to put them into Basic English. for your goods: they gave polished iron and spices for your goods.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Calamus;   Cassia;   Commerce;   Dan;   Imports;   Iron;   Javan;   Market;   Vedan;   Thompson Chain Reference - Calamus;   Cane, Sweet;   Cassia;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Commerce;   Dan, the Tribe of;   Iron;   Tyre;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Cane;   Cassia;   Dan;   Phoenicia, Phenicia, or Phenice;   Reed;   Ship;   Tyre or Tyrus;   Wine;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Phoenicia;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Regeneration;   Repentance;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Calamus;   Cassia;   Dan;   Iron;   Javan;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Calamus;   Cassia;   Dan (2);   Fairs;   Javan;   Reed;   Uzal;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Cassia;   Commerce;   Ezekiel;   Flowers;   Merchant;   Ointment;   Uzal;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Cassia;   Ezekiel;   India;   Javan,;   Meuzal;   Reed;   Uzal;   Vedan;   Yarn;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Trade and Commerce;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Calamus;   Cassia;   Dan, City of;   Grecia, Greece;   Javan ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Ship;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Calamus;   Dan;   Greece;   Iron;   Javan;   Tyre;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Cassia;   Fairs,;   Iron;   Ja'van;   Meu'zai;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Calamus;   Tyre;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Buying;   Cassia;   Dan (3);   Fairs;   Iron (1);   Javan;   Kittim;   Market;   Meuzal;   Occupy;   Reed;   Uzal;   Vedan;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Arabia;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Calamus;   Cassia;   Javan;   Metals;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Vedan and Javan from Uzal dealt in your merchandise; wrought iron, cassia, and aromatic cane were exchanged for your goods.
Hebrew Names Version
Dan and Yavan traded with yarn for your wares: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were among your merchandise.
King James Version
Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market.
English Standard Version
and casks of wine from Uzal they exchanged for your wares; wrought iron, cassia, and calamus were bartered for your merchandise.
New American Standard Bible
"Vedan and Javan paid for your merchandise from Uzal; wrought iron, cassia, and spice reed were among your merchandise.
Amplified Bible
"Vedan and Javan traded with yarn from Uzal [in Arabia] for your wares; wrought iron, cassia, and sweet cane were among your merchandise.
World English Bible
Vedan and Javan traded with yarn for your wares: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were among your merchandise.
Geneva Bible (1587)
They of Dan also and of Iauan, going to and fro, occupied in thy faires: yron woorke, cassia and calamus were among thy marchandise.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Vedan and Javan paid for your wares from Uzal; wrought iron, cassia and sweet cane were among your merchandise.
Legacy Standard Bible
Also Vedan and Javan paid for your wares from Uzal; wrought iron, cassia, and sweet cane were among your merchandise.
Berean Standard Bible
and casks of wine from Izal for your wares. Wrought iron, cassia, and sweet cane were exchanged for your merchandise.
Contemporary English Version
Vedan and Javan near Uzal traded you iron and spices.
Complete Jewish Bible
V'dan and Yavan from Uzal traded ironwork, cassia and aromatic cane for your goods.
Darby Translation
Vedan and Javan of Uzal traded in thy markets: wrought iron, cassia, and calamus were in thy traffic.
Easy-to-Read Version
Damascus traded wine from Uzal for the things you sold. They paid with wrought iron, cassia, and sugar cane.
George Lamsa Translation
Dan and Javan brought you merchandise to your markets from Usal, their iron ore, cassia, and cane.
Lexham English Bible
Vedan and Javan from Uzal, they exchanged wrought iron, cinnamon, and reed spice for your merchandise; all this was for your wares.
Literal Translation
And Dan and Javan going about gave for your wares; smooth iron, cassia, and cane were among your goods.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Dan, Iauan, and Meusal haue brought vnto thy markettes, yron redy made, with Casia and Calamus, acordinge to thyne occupienge.
American Standard Version
Vedan and Javan traded with yarn for thy wares: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were among thy merchandise.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Vedan and Javan traded with yarn for thy wares; massive iron, cassia, and calamus, were among thy merchandise.
King James Version (1611)
Dan also and Iauan going to and fro, occupyed in thy faires: bright yron, Cassia and Calamus were in thy market.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Dan, Iauan, & Meuzal haue brought vnto thy markets wrougth iron, Cassia, and Calamus were among thy marchaundise.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Out of Asel came wrought iron, and there is the sound of wheels among thy trading population.
English Revised Version
Vedan and Javan traded with yarn for thy wares: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were among thy merchandise.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Dan, and Greece, and Mosel, settiden forth in thi fairis irun maad suteli, gumme of myrre, and calamus, that is, a spice swete smellynge, in thi marchaundie.
Update Bible Version
and the earthenware wine jars of Izalla, for your wares: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were among your merchandise.
Webster's Bible Translation
Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market.
New English Translation
and casks of wine from Izal they exchanged for your products. Wrought iron, cassia, and sweet cane were among your merchandise.
New King James Version
Dan and Javan paid for your wares, traversing back and forth. Wrought iron, cassia, and cane were among your merchandise.
New Living Translation
Greeks from Uzal came to trade for your merchandise. Wrought iron, cassia, and fragrant calamus were bartered for your wares.
New Life Bible
Vedan and Javan traded with you from Uzal. They paid you with pure iron and spices.
New Revised Standard
Vedan and Javan from Uzal entered into trade for your wares; wrought iron, cassia, and sweet cane were bartered for your merchandise.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Wedan and Javan, from Uzal, Brought into thy traffic, - Steel, cassia and calamus, Were, in thy merchandise:
Douay-Rheims Bible
Dan, and Greece, and Mosel have set forth in thy marts wrought iron: stacte, and calamus were in thy market.
Revised Standard Version
and wine from Uzal they exchanged for your wares; wrought iron, cassia, and calamus were bartered for your merchandise.
Young's Literal Translation
Vedan and Javan go about with thy remnants, They have given shining iron, cassia, and cane, In thy merchandise it hath been.
THE MESSAGE
"‘Danites and Greeks from Uzal traded with you, using wrought iron, cinnamon, and spices.

Contextual Overview

1 The word of the Lord came to me again, saying, 2 And you, son of man, make a song of grief for Tyre; 3 And say to Tyre, O you who are seated at the doorway of the sea, trading for the peoples with the great sea-lands, these are the words of the Lord: You, O Tyre, have said, I am a ship completely beautiful. 4 Your builders have made your outlines in the heart of the seas, they have made you completely beautiful. 5 They have made all your boards of fir-trees from Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make the supports for your sails. 6 Of oak-trees from Bashan they have made your driving blades; they have made your floors of ivory and boxwood from the sea-lands of Kittim. 7 The best linen with needlework from Egypt was your sail, stretched out to be a flag for you; blue and purple from the sea-lands of Elishah gave you shade. 8 The people of Zidon and Arvad were your boatmen; the wise men of Zemer were in you; they were guiding your ships; 9 The responsible men of Gebal and its wise men were in you, making your boards watertight: all the ships of the sea with their seamen were in you trading in your goods. 10 Cush and Lud and Put were in your army, your men of war, hanging up their body-covers and head-dresses of war in you: they gave you your glory.

Bible Verse Review
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Dan: Judges 18:29

going to and fro: or, Menzal

cassia: Exodus 30:23, Exodus 30:24, Psalms 45:8, Song of Solomon 4:13, Song of Solomon 4:14

Reciprocal: Genesis 10:2 - General Ezekiel 27:27 - Thy riches

Cross-References

Genesis 25:25
And the first came out red from head to foot like a robe of hair, and they gave him the name of Esau.
Genesis 27:3
So take your arrows and your bow and go out to the field and get meat for me;
Genesis 27:4
And make me food, good to the taste, such as is pleasing to me, and put it before me, so that I may have a meal and give you my blessing before death comes to me.
Genesis 27:21
And Isaac said, Come near so that I may put my hand on you, my son, and see if you are truly my son Esau or not.
Genesis 27:23
And he did not make out who he was, because his hands were covered with hair like his brother Esau's hands: so he gave him a blessing.
Genesis 27:24
And he said, Are you truly my son Esau? And he said, I am.
Genesis 27:25
And he said, Put it before me and I will take of my son's meat, so that I may give you a blessing. And he put it before him and he took it; and he gave him wine, and he had a drink.
1 Kings 13:18
Then he said to him, I am a prophet like you; and an angel said to me by the word of the Lord, Take him back with you and give him food and water. But he said false words to him.
1 Kings 14:2
And Jeroboam said to his wife, Now come, put on different clothing so that you may not seem to be the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Shiloh; see, Ahijah is there, the prophet who said I would be king over this people.
Isaiah 28:15
Because you have said, We have made death our friend, and with the underworld we have made an agreement; when the overflowing waters come through they will not come near us; for we are looking to false words for help, taking cover in what is untrue:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Dan also and Javan, going to and fro, occupied in thy fairs,.... Either the inhabitants of the tribe of Dan in general; or of Laish, sometime called Dan, and in later times Caesarea Philippi, which was in that tribe: though Grotius thinks that Taprobane, or the isle of Zeilan, is meant, where, and not in Dan, were the things after mentioned, in plenty; and where also, according to Ptolemy t, was a city called Dana or Dagana: and Bochart takes Javan not to be Greece, but a people of a country in Arabia, the metropolis of which was Uzal; and so he renders it, as some of the Greek versions do, Javan of Uzal, or Asel, to distinguish it from the other Javan, Ezekiel 27:13, where also, and not in Greece, the sweet spices grew, which these are said to trade in:

bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market; brought from the above places; polished iron or steel, and the sweet spices of cassia and calamus, or the aromatic cane or reed, which came from afar, Jeremiah 6:20.

t Geograph. l. 7. c. 4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The thread broken at Ezekiel 27:8 is taken up, and the various nations are enumerated which traded with Tyre.

Ezekiel 27:12

Tarshish - Tartessus in Spain (marginal references). Spain was rich in the metals named.

Merchant - Especially applied to those who traveled about with caravans to carry on trade (see Genesis 23:16).

Fairs - Or, “wares” Ezekiel 27:33. The word occurs only in this chapter. The foreign merchants gave their wares in return for the products delivered to them by Tyre.

Ezekiel 27:13

Jaran - Greece (Ion), including the Grecian colonies in Sicily and Italy.

Tubal, and Meshech - The Tibareni and Moschi, whose lands were on the Caucasian highlands between the Euxine and Caspian Seas (see the marginal reference), were a fine race of men; from thence slaves have been continually sought. Greece too in ancient times was famous for furnishing slaves.

Ezekiel 27:14

Togarmah - Armenia.

Ezekiel 27:15

Dedan - There were two tribes (Shemite and Hamite), each bearing the name of “Dedan” (see Genesis 10:7). The Hamite (Ethiopian) Dedan may well have supplied for a payment (rather than “for a present”) horns, ivory, and ebony; the Shemite (Arabians), “clothes for chariots” (see Ezekiel 27:20).

Ezekiel 27:16

Syria - “Aram” here included Mesopotamia; and Babylon was famous for its precious stones. Many read “Edom.”

Emeralds - Rather, carbuncle.

Fine linen - The word (בוץ bûts) was used only in the times of the captivity. It is a Phoenician word, which in Greek assumed the form “byssus,” properly “cotton,” as distinguished from “linen;” the Phoenicians spinning their threads from cotton wool, the Egyptians from flax.

Ezekiel 27:17

Minnith - A city of the Ammonites, whose country was famous for wheat 2 Chronicles 27:5. The wheat was carried through the land of Israel to Tyre.

Pannag - This word occurs nowhere else, and has been very variously explained. Some take it to be “sweetwares.” Others see in it the name of a place, fertile like Minnith, perhaps identical with Pingi on the road from Baalbec to Damascus.

Ezekiel 27:18

Helbon - Chalybon, near Damascus, whose wine was a favorite luxury with Persian kings.

White wool - A product of flocks that grazed in the waste lands of Syria and Arabia.

Ezekiel 27:19

Dan also - Hebrew Vedan, a place in Arabia, not elsewhere mentioned.

Going to and fro - Better as in the margin, a proper name, “Meuzal,” or rather, “from Uzal” which was the ancient name of Senaa the capital of Yemen in Arabia. Greek merchants would carry on commerce between Uzal and Tyre.

Bright iron - literally, “wrought iron;” iron worked into plates smooth and polished. Yemen was famous for the manufacture of sword-blades.

Cassia - The inner bark of an aromatic plant.

Calamus - A fragrant reed-like plant (see Exodus 30:23-24). Both are special products of India and Arabia.

Ezekiel 27:20

Dedan - See Ezekiel 27:15. It is remarkable that “Dedan and Sheba” occur both among the descendants of Ham in Genesis 10:7, and among the descendants of Abraham and Keturah in Genesis 25:3. This seems to indicate that there were distinct nomad tribes bearing the same names of Hamite and of Semitic origin; or it may be that whereas some of the nomad Arabs were Hamite, others Semitic, these were of mixed origin, and so traced up their lineage alike to tiara and Shem. Here we have, at any rate, a number of Arabian nomad tribes mentioned together, and these tribes and their caravans were in those days the regular merchant travelers between east and west. By her ships, Tyre spread over Europe the goods which by these caravans she obtained from India and China.

Precious clothes - Or “clothes of covering,” cloths of tapestry.

Ezekiel 27:21

Kedar - The representative of the pastoral tribes in the northwest of Arabia.

Ezekiel 27:22

Sheba - Sabaea, the richest country of Arabia, corresponded nearly with what is now called Yemen or Arabia Felix.

Raamah - Closely connected with “Sheba,” whose seat is supposed to have been in the neighborhood of the Persian Gulf.

Ezekiel 27:23

Haran - Charrae in Mesopotamia.

Canneh - “Calneh” Genesis 10:10, probably Ctesiphon on the Tigris.

Eden - On the Euphrates Isaiah 37:12. “the merchants of Sheba” Here the towns or tribes that traded with Sheba. Sheba maintained a considerable trade with Mesopotamia.

Chilmad - Possibly Kalwada near Bagdad.

Ezekiel 27:24

All sorts of things - See the margin, “made of cedar” Rather, made fast.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 27:19. Dan also and Javan — It is probable that both these words mean some of the Grecian islands.

Going to and fro — They both took and brought-imported and exported: but מאוזל meuzal, from uzal, may be a proper name. What place is signified I cannot tell, unless it be Azal, a name, according to Kamoos, of the capital of Arabia Felix.


 
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