Ezequiel 27:9

La Biblia de las Americas

‘Los ancianos de Gebal y sus mejores obreros estaban contigo reparando tus junturas; todas las naves del mar y sus marineros estaban contigo para negociar con tus productos.

Parallel Translations

La Biblia Reina-Valera
Los ancianos de Gebal y sus sabios repararon tus hendiduras: todas las galeras de la mar y los remeros de ellas fueron en ti para negociar tus negocios.

La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez
Los ancianos de Gebal y sus expertos calafateadores reparaban tus junturas; todas las galeras del mar y los remeros de ellas estuvieron en ti para negociar contigo.

Sagradas Escrituras (1569)
Los ancianos de Gebal y sus sabios repararon tus hendiduras; todas las galeras del mar y los remeros de ellas fueron en ti para negociar tus negocios.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Gebal: Joshua 13:5, 1 Kings 5:18, *marg. Psalms 83:7

calkers: or, stoppers of chinks, Heb. strengtheners, Ezekiel 27:27

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The ancients of Gebal,.... A promontory of the Phoenicians, the same with the Gabale of Pliny n, and with the land of the Giblites, Joshua 13:5. It was by the Greeks called Byblus; and so the Septuagint here render the words, the elders of Bybli or Byblus, a place once famous for the birth and temple of Adonis; it is now called Gibyle. Mr. Maundrell o says it is pleasantly situated by the seaside, and that at present it contains but a little extent of ground, yet more than enough for the small number of its inhabitants; it is compassed with a dry ditch, and a wall with square towers in it, at about every forty yards' distance; on its south side it has an old castle; within it is a church; besides which it has nothing remarkable; though anciently it was a place of no mean extent, as well as beauty, as may appear from the many heaps of ruins, and the fine pillars that are scattered up and down in the gardens near the town. The old experienced workmen of this place were employed by the Tyrians in mending and refitting their ships, and in the caulking of them, as follows:

the wise men thereof were in thee thy caulkers; or, "the strengtheners of thy breaches" p, or "chinks"; the seams and commissures of the planks; which they stopped with tow, oakum, or such like stuff; at least this is what is used now, whatever might be by those wise men; and it seems by this that it was reckoned a very great art and mystery, and which only wise men were masters of, at least such the Tyrians employed. The Targum renders it,

"providing thy necessaries;''

as if they were the ships' husbands:

all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise; ships from all parts were in her harbours, which brought goods into her, and carried goods out of her, by way of merchandise. So the Targum,

"all that go down into the sea, and the ships; they were rowers, and they brought merchandise into the midst of thee;''

the goods of merchants from divers places; and carried back commodities again they traded for at Tyre; see Revelation 18:19.

n Nat. Hist. l. 5. c. 20. o Journey c. p. 33, 34. p מחזיקי בדקך "roborantes scissuram tuam", Montanus "instaurantes fissuras tuas", Munster, Tigurine version; "rimas tuas", Vatablus; "instauratores rupturaram tuarum", Piscator.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Gebal - i. e., Byblos (modern Gebeil) in Phoenicia, the chief seat of the worship of Adonis, and situated on an eminence over-looking the river Adonis, north of Beirut, not far from the Mediterranean sea. The “ancients” is a term for the council that presided over maritime cities.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 27:9. The ancients of Gebal — This was a city of Phoenicia, near Mount Libanus, Joshua 13:5. It was called Biblos by the Greeks.

Thy calkers — Those who repaired their vessels; paying, as it is termed, pitched hemp into the seams, to prevent the water from oozing through.

To occupy thy merchandise. — That is, to be thy agents or factors.