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Brenton's Septuagint

Ezekiel 27:23

Charra, and Chanaa, these were thy merchants: Assur, and Charman, were thy merchants:

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Assyria;   Calneh;   Chilmad;   Commerce;   Eden;   Haran;   Imports;   Market;   Merchant;   Sheba;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Assyria;   Tyre;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Calneh;   Phoenicia, Phenicia, or Phenice;   Ship;   Tyre or Tyrus;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Phoenicia;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Regeneration;   Repentance;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Asshur;   Calneh;   Canneh;   Chilmad;   Eden;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Calneh;   Chilmad;   Dedan;   Eden;   Embroider;   Nineveh;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Asshur;   Beth-Eden;   Canneh;   Chilmad;   Commerce;   Eden;   Ezekiel;   Haran;   Merchant;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Canneh;   Chilmad;   Eden, Children of;   Ezekiel;   Haran;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Trade and Commerce;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Canneh ;   Chilmad ;   Eden ;   Haran, ;   Sheba ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Ship;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Calneh;   Eden;   Tyre;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ara'bia;   Can'neh;   Chil'mad;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Sabeans;   Tyre;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Buying;   Canneh;   Children of Eden;   Chilmad;   Haran (2);   Sabaeans;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Arabia;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Adiabene;   Canneh;   Chilmad;   Haran;   Nisibis;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Haran, Canneh, Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad traded with you.
Hebrew Names Version
Haran and Kanneh and `Eden, the traffickers of Sheva, Ashshur [and] Kilmad, were your traffickers.
King James Version
Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad, were thy merchants.
English Standard Version
Haran, Canneh, Eden, traders of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad traded with you.
New American Standard Bible
"Haran, Canneh, Eden, the traders of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad traded with you.
New Century Version
"‘People of Haran, Canneh, Eden, and the traders of Sheba, Asshur, and Kilmad became merchants for you.
Amplified Bible
"Haran and Canneh and Eden [in Mesopotamia], the merchants of Sheba [on the Euphrates], Asshur and Chilmad traded with you.
World English Bible
Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traffickers of Sheba, Asshur [and] Chilmad, were your traffickers.
Geneva Bible (1587)
They of Haram and Canneh and Eden, the marchants of Sheba, Asshur and Chilmad were thy marchants.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Haran, Canneh, Eden, the traders of Sheba, Asshur and Chilmad traded with you.
Legacy Standard Bible
Haran, Canneh, Eden, the traders of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad traded with you.
Berean Standard Bible
Haran, Canneh, and Eden, and the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad traded with you.
Contemporary English Version
You also did business with merchants from the cities of Haran, Canneh, Eden, Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad,
Complete Jewish Bible
The merchants of Haran, Kaneh and ‘Eden, who traded also with Sh'va, Ashur and Kilmad,
Darby Translation
Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad traded with thee:
Easy-to-Read Version
Haran, Canneh, Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Kilmad traded with you.
George Lamsa Translation
Haran and Canneh and Eden, the merchants of Sheba and Assyria, were your merchants.
Good News Translation
The cities of Haran, Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, the cities of Asshur and Chilmad—they all traded with you.
Lexham English Bible
Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traders of Sheba, Assyria, and Kilmad were trading with you.
Literal Translation
Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Assyria, Chilmad were your merchants.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Haran, Chene and Eden, the marchauntes off Saba, Assiria and Chelmad, were all doers with ye
American Standard Version
Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traffickers of Sheba, Asshur and Chilmad, were thy traffickers.
Bible in Basic English
Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traders of Asshur and all the Medes:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traffickers of Sheba, Asshur was as thine apprentice in traffic.
King James Version (1611)
Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Shebah, Asshur and Chilmad were thy merchants.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Haran, Chenne, and Eden, the marchauntes of Seba, Assyria, and Chelmad were doers with thee:
English Revised Version
Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traffickers of Sheba, Asshur and Chilmad were they traffickers.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Aran, and Chenne, and Eden, weren thi marchauntis; Sabba, and Assur, and Chelmath, weren thi silleris.
Update Bible Version
Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traffickers of Sheba, Asshur [and] Chilmad, were your traffickers.
Webster's Bible Translation
Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, [and] Chilmad, [were] thy merchants.
New English Translation
Haran, Kanneh, Eden, merchants from Sheba, Asshur, and Kilmad were your clients.
New King James Version
Haran, Canneh, Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Assyria, and Chilmad were your merchants.
New Living Translation
"Haran, Canneh, Eden, Sheba, Asshur, and Kilmad came with their merchandise, too.
New Life Bible
Haran, Canneh, Eden, Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad traded with you.
New Revised Standard
Haran, Canneh, Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad traded with you.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Haran and Canneh and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, - Asshur. Chilmad, Were merchants of thine:
Douay-Rheims Bible
Haran, and Chene, and Eden were thy merchants; Saba, Assur, and Chelmad sold to thee.
Revised Standard Version
Haran, Canneh, Eden, Asshur, and Chilmad traded with you.
Young's Literal Translation
Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, merchants of Sheba, Asshur -- Chilmad -- [are] thy merchants,
THE MESSAGE
"‘Haran, Canneh, and Eden from the east in Assyria and Media traded with you, bringing elegant clothes, dyed textiles, and elaborate carpets to your bazaars.

Contextual Overview

1 And the word of the Lord came to me saying, 2 And thou, son of man, take up a lamentation against Sor; 3 and thou shalt say to Sor that dwells at the entrance of the sea, to the mart of the nations coming from many islands, Thus saith the Lord to Sor; 4 In the heart of the sea thy sons have put beauty upon thee for Beelim. 5 Cedar in Senir was employed for thee in building: boards of cypress timber were taken out of Libanus, and wood to make thee masts of fir. 6 They made thine oars of wood out of the land of Basan; thy sacred utensils they made of ivory, thy shady houses of wood from the isles of Chetiim. 7 Fine linen with embroidery from Egypt supplied the couch, to put honour upon thee, and to clothe thee with blue and purple from the isles of Elisai; and they became thy coverings. 8 And thy princes were the dwellers in Sidon, and the Aradians were thy rowers: thy wise men, O Sor, who were in thee, these were thy pilots. 9 The elders of the Biblians, and their wise men, who were in thee, these helped thy counsel: and all the ships of the sea and their rowers traded for thee to the utmost west. 10 Persians and Lydians and Libyans were in thine army: thy warriors hung in thee shields and helmets; these gave thee thy glory.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Haran: Genesis 11:31, Genesis 11:32, Genesis 12:4, 2 Kings 19:12, Isaiah 37:12, Acts 7:4, Charran

Canneh: Genesis 10:10, Genesis 10:22, Calneh, Isaiah 10:9, Calno, Amos 6:2, Calneh

Eden: Genesis 2:8, Amos 1:5

Sheba: Genesis 25:3, Job 1:15

Asshur: Genesis 32:22, Numbers 24:22, Psalms 83:8, Isaiah 7:18, Isaiah 7:20

Reciprocal: Genesis 10:11 - Asshur 1 Kings 10:1 - Sheba 1 Chronicles 1:17 - Asshur Job 6:19 - Sheba Ezekiel 38:13 - Sheba

Cross-References

Genesis 27:11
And Jacob said to his mother Rebecca, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I a smooth man.
Genesis 27:12
Peradventure my father may feel me, and I shall be before him as one ill-intentioned, and I shall bring upon me a curse, and not a blessing.
Genesis 27:16
And she put on his arms the skins of the kids, and on the bare parts of his neck.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Haran, and Canneh, and Eden,.... Haran was a city of Mesopotamia, the same with Haran, where Abraham dwelt awhile, Acts 7:2, the Charrae of the Parthians, famous for the defeat of Crassus. Canneh is thought to be the same with Calneh, Genesis 10:10, afterwards called Ctesiphon; and here, by the Targum, Netzibin, a place not far from Tigris; and Eden also was between Tigris and Euphrates. All three places seem to be in Mesopotamia, and not far from each other; the latter is thought by some to be the place where the garden of Eden was.

The merchants of Sheba; this was another Sheba, distinct from that in

Ezekiel 27:22, this Sheba was the son of Jokshan, a son of Abraham by Keturah, Genesis 25:3, these were the Sabaeans, who were not far from the former, and dwelt near the Persian sea.

Ashur and Chilmad were thy merchants; or dealt in "thy merchandise"; took goods of them. Ashur designs the Assyrians, who had their name from Ashur, the builder of Nineveh, Genesis 10:11 and Chilmad is by the Targum rendered Media; and by Grotius thought to be the Gaala of Media in Ptolemy b; and so Hillerus c takes it to be a city of Media.

b Geograph. l. 6. c. 2. c Onomastic. Sacr. p. 108.

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 27:23. Haran — In Mesopotamia; well known in Scripture.

Canneh — Or Chalane; see Genesis 10:10. It is supposed to be a cape or port of Arabia Felix, on the Indian Sea.

Eden — Equally famous: supposed to have been situated near the confluence of the Tygris and Euphrates.

Sheba — Different from that in Ezekiel 27:22. This was probably near the country of the Edomites.

Asshur — Perhaps the Assyrians.

Chilmad — Possibly Cholmadora, on the Euphrates. Ptol. lib. v.. cap. 15. For several of these places, and the persons from whom they derived their names, see Genesis 10:1-32, and the notes there; and see Calmet.


 
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