Ezekiel 27:17-27

17 Judah and the land of Israel were your agents, trading the finest wheat, millet, honey, oil, and balm for your wares.

18 For many of your finished products, Damascus traded out of its great wealth the wine of Helbon and white wool.

19 Vedan and Javan from the region of Uzal traded with you. They exchanged wrought iron, cinnamon, and spices for your wares.

20 Dedan was your agent for saddle blankets.

21 Arabia and all the princes of Kedar traded for you. They procured lambs, rams, and goats for you.

22 They were your agents in Sheba and Raamah. For your wares they exchanged the finest spices, every kind of precious stone, and gold.

23 Haran, Canneh, and Eden were your agents, and also Assyria and Chilmad.

24 They procured fine finished goods for you, garments of purple and brocade, and plush carpets rolled up and securely tied with ropes, among your acquisitions.

25 The ships of Tarshish carried your goods. You were filled to capacity and heavily laden in the middle of the sea.

26 Your oarsmen brought you out onto the high seas; an east wind sank you into the sea's depths.

27 Your goods, your wares, your wealth, your sailors, your helmsmen, those patching your leaks, your merchants, all your warriors in you, and all the company that is with you— they also sank into the sea's depth on the day of your demise.

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Ezekiel 27:17-27 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EZEKIEL 27

This chapter contains a lamentation on Tyre; setting forth her former grandeur, riches, and commerce; her ruin and destruction; and the concern of others on that account. The prophet is bid to take up his lamentation concerning it, Eze 27:1,2, observing her situation and magnificence, of which she boasted, Eze 27:3,4, describing the excellency of her shipping and naval stores, Eze 27:5-7, declaring who were her mariners, pilots, and caulkers, Eze 27:8,9, her military men, Eze 27:10,11 her several merchants, and the things they traded in with her in her fairs and markets, Eze 27:12-25, then follows an account of her destruction, Eze 27:26,27, the lamentation of pilots and mariners because of it, Eze 27:28-32, and of the kings and inhabitants of the isles, and merchants of the people, Eze 27:33-36.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

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[a]. Or wheat from Minnith
[b]. Heb uncertain
[c]. LXX; MT adds Sheba.

Ezekiel 27:17-27

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Ezekiel 27:17-27 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EZEKIEL 27

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