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Ezekiel 27:19

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.

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.
Bible in Basic English
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.
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.
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 And the word of the Lord was maad to me, 2 and he seide, Therfor thou, sone of man, take weilyng on Tire. 3 And thou schalt seie to Tire, that dwellith in the entryng of the see, to the marchaundie of puplis to many ilis, The Lord God seith these thingis, O! Tire, thou seidist, Y am of perfit fairnesse, 4 and Y am set in the herte of the see. Thei that ben in thi coostis that bildiden thee, filliden thi fairnesse; 5 thei bildiden thee with fir trees of Sanyr, with alle werkis of boordis of the see; thei token a cedre of the Liban, to make a mast to thee. 6 Thei hewiden ookis of Bala in to thin ooris, thei maden to thee thi seetis of roweris of yuer of Ynde, and cabans of the ilis of Italie. 7 Dyuerse biys, `ether whijt silk, of Egipt, was wouun to thee in to a veil, that it schulde be set in the mast; iacynct and purpur of the ilis of Elisa weren maad thin hiling. 8 The dwelleris of Sidon and Aradians weren thi roweris; Tire, thi wise men weren maad thi gouernouris. 9 The elde men of Biblos, and the prudent men therof, hadden schipmen to the seruyse of thi dyuerse araye of houshold; alle the schippis of the see, and the schip men of tho, weren in the puple of thi marchaundie. 10 Perseis, and Lidians, and Libians weren in thin oost; thi men werriours hangiden in thee a scheeld and helm, for thin ournyng.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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
He that yede out first was reed, and al rouy in the manere of a skyn; and his name was clepid Esau.
Genesis 27:3
Take thin armeres, `arewe caas, and a bowe, and go out; and whanne thou hast take ony thing bi huntyng,
Genesis 27:4
make to me a seew therof, as thou knowist that Y wole, and brynge that Y ete, and my soule blesse thee bifore that Y die.
Genesis 27:21
And Isaac seide, My sone, come thou hidir, that Y touche thee, and that Y preue wher thou art my sone Esau, ethir nay.
Genesis 27:23
And Isaac knew not Jacob, for the heery hondis expressiden the licnesse of the more sone.
Genesis 27:24
Therfor Isaac blesside him, and seide, Art thou my sone Esau? Jacob answerde, Y am.
Genesis 27:25
And Isaac seide, My sone, brynge thou to me metis of thin huntyng, that my soule blesse thee. And whanne Isaac hadde ete these metis brouyt, Jacob brouyte also wyn to Isaac, and whanne this was drunkun,
1 Kings 13:18
Which seide to hym, And Y am a profete lijk thee; and an aungel spak to me bi the word of the Lord, and seide, Lede ayen hym in to thin hows, that he ete breed, and drynke watir. He disseyuede the man of God,
1 Kings 14:2
And Jeroboam seide to his wijf, Rise thou, and chaunge clothing, that thou be not knowun, that thou art the wijf of Jeroboam; and go thou in to Silo, where Ahia, the prophete, is, which spak to me, that Y schulde regne on this puple.
Isaiah 28:15
For ye seiden, We han smyte a boond of pees with deth, and we han maad couenaunt with helle; a scourge flowynge whanne it schal passe, schal not come on vs, for we han set a leesyng oure hope, and we ben kyuered with a leesyng.

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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