Ezekiel 27:20

Bishop's Bible

They of Dedan were thy marchauntes in precious clothes for chariots.

Parallel Translations

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

English Revised Version
Dedan was thy trafficker in precious cloths 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,

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.

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

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

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.

New Life Bible
Dedan paid you with horse coverings.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Contextual Overview

¹ The worde of the Lorde came vnto me, saying: ² O thou sonne of man, take vp a lamentable complaint vpon Tyre, ³ And say vnto Tyre that is situate at the entry of the sea, whiche is the mart of the people for many iles, thus sayth the Lorde God O Tyre, thou hast sayde, I am of perfite beautie. ⁴ Thy borders are in the mids of the seas, thy buylders haue made perfite thy beautie. ⁵ They haue made all thy [ship] bordes of firre trees of Shenir, from Libanus haue they taken Cedar trees to make thee mastes: ⁶ And the Okes of Basan to make thee ores, they haue made thy benches of iuory, gotten in Assyria, brought out of the iles of Chittim. ⁷ Fine linnen with broidred worke out of Egypt was spread ouer thee to be thy sayle: blewe silke and purple out of the iles of Elishah was thy couering. ⁸ The inhabitours of Sidon and Aruad were thy mariners: and thy wise men O Tyre, that were in thee, were thy shipmaisters. ⁹ The auncient and wyse men of Gebal were in thee, thy stoppers of chinkes: all shippes of the sea with their shipmen were in thee, to occupie thy marchaundise. ¹⁰ The Perses, Lydians, and Phutens were in thy armies, thy men of warre: these haged vp their shieldes & helmets in thee, these set foorth thyne honour.

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 saide: Lord God of my maister Abraham, I pray thee sende me good speede this day, and shewe mercy vnto my maister Abraham.

Exodus 20:7
Thou shalt not take the name of the Lorde thy God in vayne: for the Lorde will not holde him giltlesse that taketh his name in vayne.

Job 13:7
Wyll you speake wickedlie for gods [defence] and talke deceitfully for his [cause?]

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.