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Ezekiel 27:18-28

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18 1Damascus did business with you for your abundant goods, because of your great wealth of every kind; wine of Helbon and 2wool of Sahar
19 and casks of wine[a] from Uzal they exchanged for your wares; wrought iron, 3cassia, and 4calamus were bartered for your merchandise.
20 Dedan traded with you in saddlecloths for riding.
21 Arabia and all the princes of 5Kedar were your favored dealers 6in lambs, rams, and goats; in these they did business with you.
22 The traders of 7Sheba and 8Raamah traded with you; they exchanged 9for your wares 10the best of all kinds of spices and all precious stones and gold.
23 11Haran, Canneh, 12Eden, traders of Sheba, 13Asshur, and Chilmad traded with you.
24 In your market these traded with you in choice garments, in clothes of 14blue and 15embroidered work, and in carpets of colored material, bound with cords and made secure.
25 16The ships of 17Tarshish traveled for you with your merchandise. So you were filled and heavily laden 18in the heart of the seas.
26 "Your rowers have brought you out into the high seas. 19The east wind has wrecked you in the heart of the seas.
27 Your riches, your wares, your merchandise, your mariners and 20your pilots, 21your caulkers, your dealers in merchandise, and all your men of war who are in you, with all your crew that is in your midst, sink into the heart of the seas 22on the day of your fall.
28 At the sound of the cry of your pilots 23the countryside shakes,
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Ezekiel 27:18-28 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

Cross References 23

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Probable reading; Hebrew wool of Sahar, Vedan, and Javan
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