Ezekiel 27:20

Literal Standard Version

Dedan [is] your merchant, || For clothes of freedom for riding.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Dedan was your merchant in saddlecloths for riding.

Hebrew Names Version
Dedan was your trafficker in precious cloths for riding.

King James Version
Dedan was thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots.

English Standard Version
Dedan traded with you in saddlecloths for riding.

New American Standard Bible
"Dedan traded with you in saddlecloths for riding.

New Century Version
"‘People of Dedan became merchants for you, trading saddle blankets for riding.

Amplified Bible
"Dedan traded with you in saddle blankets for riding.

World English Bible
Dedan was your trafficker in precious cloths for riding.

Geneva Bible (1587)
They of Dedan were thy marchants in precious clothes for the charets.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Dedan traded with you in saddlecloths for riding.

Legacy Standard Bible
Dedan traded with you in saddlecloths for riding.

Berean Standard Bible
Dedan was your merchant in saddlecloths for riding.

Contemporary English Version
The people of Dedan supplied you with saddle blankets,

Complete Jewish Bible
D'dan traded with you for riding gear.

Darby Translation
Dedan was thy trafficker in precious riding-cloths.

Easy-to-Read Version
Dedan provided good business and traded with you for saddle blankets and riding horses.

George Lamsa Translation
Deran was your market place; her merchants brought you the choicest cattle.

Good News Translation
The people of Dedan traded saddle blankets for your goods.

Lexham English Bible
Dedan was trading with you, with garments of woven material for riding.

Literal Translation
Dedan was your merchant in loose cloths for riding.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Dedan occupied with the, in fayre tapestry worke and quy?hyns.

American Standard Version
Dedan was thy trafficker in precious cloths for riding.

Bible in Basic English
Dedan did trade with you in cloths for the backs of horses.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Dedan was thy trafficker in precious cloths for riding.

King James Version (1611)
Dedan was thy merchant in precious clothes for charets.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
They of Dedan were thy marchauntes in precious clothes for chariots.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The people of Daedan were thy merchants, with choice cattle for chariots.

English Revised Version
Dedan was thy trafficker in precious cloths for riding.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Dedan weren thi marchauntis, in tapitis to sitte.

Update Bible Version
Dedan was your trafficker in precious cloths for riding.

Webster's Bible Translation
Dedan [was] thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots.

New English Translation
Dedan was your client in saddlecloths for riding.

New King James Version
Dedan was your merchant in saddlecloths for riding.

New Living Translation
"Dedan sent merchants to trade their expensive saddle blankets with you.

New Life Bible
Dedan paid you with horse coverings.

New Revised Standard
Dedan traded with you in saddlecloths for riding.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Dedan was a merchant of thine,- With spreading wraps for riding:

Douay-Rheims Bible
The men of Dedan were thy merchants in tapestry for seats.

Revised Standard Version
Dedan traded with you in saddlecloths for riding.

Young's Literal Translation
Dedan [is] thy merchant, For clothes of freedom for riding.

THE MESSAGE
"‘Dedan traded with you for saddle blankets.

Contextual Overview

¹And there is a word of YHWH to me, saying, ²"And you, son of man, lift up a lamentation concerning Tyre, and you have said to Tyre: ³O dweller on the entrances of the sea, || Merchant of the peoples to many islands, Thus said Lord YHWH: O Tyre, you have said, || I [am] the perfection of beauty. ⁴Your borders [are] in the heart of the seas, || Your builders have perfected your beauty. ⁵They have built of firs from Senir all your double-boarded ships for you, || They have taken of cedars from Lebanon to make a mast for you, ⁶They made your oars of oaks from Bashan, || They have made your bench of ivory, || A branch of Ashurim from islands of Chittim. ⁷Your sail has been of fine linen with embroidery from Egypt, || To be for your ensign, || Your covering has been of blue and purple from islands of Elishah. ⁸Inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad have been rowers for you, || Your wise men, O Tyre, have been in you, || They [are] your pilots. ⁹The elderly of Gebal and its wise men have been in you, || Strengthening your breach; All ships of the sea and their mariners, || Have been in you, to trade your merchandise. ¹⁰Persia and Lud and Phut || Have been in your forces—your men of war. They hung up shield and helmet in you, || They have given out your honor.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Dedan: Ezekiel 27:15, Genesis 25:3

precious clothes: Heb. clothes of freedom

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 1:32 - Dedan Isaiah 21:13 - O ye Jeremiah 25:23 - Dedan Ezekiel 38:13 - Sheba

Cross-References

Genesis 24:12
And he says, "YHWH, God of my lord Abraham, please cause to meet before me this day—(and do kindness with my lord Abraham;

Exodus 20:7
You do not take up the Name of your God YHWH for a vain thing, for YHWH does not acquit him who takes up His Name for a vain thing.

Job 13:7
Do you speak perverseness for God? And do you speak deceit for Him?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Dedan was thy merchant in precious cloths for chariots. Or, "cloths of freedom" u; such as freemen and even nobles wore; and yet so extravagant were the Tyrians, that they bought these to line or cover their chariots with; this is different from the Dedan in

Ezekiel 27:15, and is either Dedan in Edom or Idumea, Jeremiah 49:8, or in Arabia, the inhabitants of which descended from Dedan, a grandson of Abraham, Genesis 25:3, which agrees with the following.

u בבגדי חפש "pannis libertatis", Vatablus, Piscator; "ingenuorem", Junius & Tremellius. So Ben Melech, and R. Sol. Urbin. Ohel Moed, fol. 30. 2.

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 27:20. Dedan — Possibly the descendants of Dedan, son of Raamah, see Genesis 10:7.

In precious clothes for chariots. — Either fine carpets, or rich housings for horses, camels, &c., used for riding.