Ezequiel 27:15

15 También te llegaban mercaderes desde la tierra de Dedán.
Tenías el monopolio del mercado en muchos lugares costeros; te pagaban con colmillos de marfil y madera de ébano.

Ezequiel 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.

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FOOTNOTES:

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

Ezequiel 27:15 In-Context

13 Mercaderes de Grecia,
Tubal y Mesec llegaban con esclavos y objetos de bronce para comerciar contigo.

14 »”De Bet-togarmá traían caballos para montar, caballos para carros de guerra y mulas para cambiarlos por tus mercancías.

15 También te llegaban mercaderes desde la tierra de Dedán.
Tenías el monopolio del mercado en muchos lugares costeros; te pagaban con colmillos de marfil y madera de ébano.

16 »”De Aram
enviaban mercaderes para comprar tu gran variedad de artículos. Comerciaban con turquesa, tinturas de púrpura, bordados, lino fino y joyas de coral y de rubíes.

17 Judá e Israel te ofrecían trigo de Minit, higos,
miel, aceite de oliva y bálsamo a cambio de tus mercancías.