Ezechiël 27:15

15 De kinderen van Dedan waren uw kooplieden; vele eilanden waren de koophandel uwer hand; hoornen van elpenbeen en ebbenhout gaven zij u weder tot een verering.

Ezechiël 27:15 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 27:15

The men of Dedan were thy merchants
Not Dedan in Idumea or Edom, but in Arabia, from Dedan the son of Raamah, ( Genesis 10:7 ) : many isles were the merchandise of thine hands;
that is, many isles took off their manufactures from them, in lieu of what they brought them, which were as follow: they brought thee for a present;
that they might have the liberty of trading in their fairs and markets; or rather for a reward, or as a price, for the goods they had of them: horns of ivory and ebony;
Kimchi reads them as separate things; and which the Targum confirms, "horns, ivory, and ebony"; elks' horns, or horns of goats, as the Targum; and "ivory", or the teeth of elephants; and "ebony", which is a wood of a very black colour, hard and heavy, and of which many things are made. The Targum takes it for the name of a fowl, and renders it peacocks; so Jarchi; see ( 2 Chronicles 9:21 ) , but Ben Melech much better interprets it of a tree, called in Arabia "ebenus". Solinus makes it peculiar to India ^F4; and so Virgil ^F5.

---

FOOTNOTES:

F4 Polyhistor. c. 65.
F5 "----Sola India nigrum fert ebenum.----" Virgil. Georgic. 1. 2.

Ezechiël 27:15 In-Context

13 Javan, Tubal en Mesech waren uw kooplieden; met mensenzielen en koperen vaten dreven zij onderlingen handel met u.

14 Uit het huis van Togarma leverden zij paarden, en ruiteren, en muilezels op uw markten.

15 De kinderen van Dedan waren uw kooplieden; vele eilanden waren de koophandel uwer hand; hoornen van elpenbeen en ebbenhout gaven zij u weder tot een verering.

16 Syrie dreef koophandel met u, vanwege de veelheid uwer werken; met smaragden, purper, en gestikt werk, en zijde, en Ramoth, en Cadkod, handelden zij op uw markten.

17 Juda en het land Israels waren uw kooplieden; met tarwe van Minnit en Pannag, en honig, en olie, en balsem, dreven zij onderlingen handel met u.