Ezekiel 27:19
in Ezekiel 27and casks of wine from Izal for your wares. Wrought iron, cassia, and sweet cane were exchanged for your merchandise.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Vedan and Javan traded with yarn for thy wares: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were among thy merchandise.
KJV
Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market.
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This verse in Ezekiel 27
Commentary
4 notes on this verse(Verse 19.) Both Greece and Mozel (also known as Moscow) have put forward wrought iron during your markets. Stacte and calamus are in your business dealings. The Septuagint version adds the following about Dan, Javan, and Mozel in your markets. Wrought iron is made by skilled craftsmen, and the wheel is part of your trade. The name Dan was taken from the patriarch and the tribe, and it refers to the place where the tribe lived. Today, that place is called Paneas, which was once known as Caesarea Philippi.
This site's exposition
Dan also and Javan going to and fro
on Ezekiel 27:19-22
The list continues through Dan and Javan with iron, cassia and calamus, Dedan again with precious cloths for chariots, and Arabia with the princes of Kedar supplying lambs, rams and goats, the pastoral trade of the desert tribes entering the same ledger as the manufactured goods of the cities. Sheba and Raamah close the section with the chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold, the luxury trade of the far south reaching Tyre's market alongside everything else the ancient world produced. Gill reads the sheer breadth of the list, spices to sheep, iron to gold, as the chapter's own argument for the scale of what falls when the city falls.
The record, by era
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
Dan also and Javan - It is probable that both these words mean some of the Grecian islands. Going to and fro - They both took and brought - imported and exported: but מאוזל meuzal, from uzal, may be a proper name. What place is signified I cannot tell, unless it be Azal, a name, according to Kamoos, of the capital of Arabia Felix.
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Therefore, FAIRBAIRN translates, "Vedan"; perhaps the modern Aden, near the straits of Bab-el-man-deb. GROTIUS refers it to Dana, mentioned by PTOLEMY. Javan--not the Greeks of Europe or Asia Minor, but of a Greek settlement in Arabia. going to and fro--rather, as Hebrew admits, "from Uzal." This is added to "Javan," to mark which Javan is meant (Ge 10:27).
The words behind it
11 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְדָ֤ן | vedan | Vedan | H2051 → | |
| וְיָוָן֙ | veyavan | and Javan | H3120 → | |
| מְאוּזָּ֔ל | meuzal | from Uzal | H187 → | |
| בְּעִזְבוֹנַ֖יִךְ | beizvonayikh | for wares your | H5801 → | 7 times |
| נָתָ֑נּוּ | natanu | they exchanged | H5414 → | 2011 times |
| בַּרְזֶ֤ל | barzel | iron | H1270 → | 76 times |
| עָשׁוֹת֙ | ʾashot | wrought | H6219 → | |
| קִדָּ֣ה | kidah | cassia | H6916 → | |
| וְקָנֶ֔ה | vekaneh | and calamus | H7070 → | 62 times |
| בְּמַעֲרָבֵ֖ךְ | bemaaravekh | for merchandise your | H4627 → | 9 times |
| הָיָֽה׃ | hayah | it was | H1961 → | 3559 times |
וְדָ֤ןVedan
vedanH2051 →
וְיָוָן֙and Javan
veyavanH3120 →
מְאוּזָּ֔לfrom Uzal
meuzalH187 →
בְּעִזְבוֹנַ֖יִךְfor wares your
beizvonayikhH5801 →7 times
נָתָ֑נּוּthey exchanged
natanuH5414 →2011 times
בַּרְזֶ֤לiron
barzelH1270 →76 times
עָשׁוֹת֙wrought
ʾashotH6219 →
קִדָּ֣הcassia
kidahH6916 →
וְקָנֶ֔הand calamus
vekanehH7070 →62 times
בְּמַעֲרָבֵ֖ךְfor merchandise your
bemaaravekhH4627 →9 times
הָיָֽה׃it was
hayahH1961 →3559 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Psalms 45:8All your garments are fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia; from palaces of ivory the harps make you glad.
it leads to
- Song of Solomon 1:3
The fragrance of your perfume is pleasing; your name is like perfume poured out. No wonder the maidens adore you.
- 2 Corinthians 2:14–16
But thanks be to God, who always leads us triumphantly as captives in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of Him.
- John 19:39
Nicodemus, who had previously come to Jesus at night, also brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds.
- Matthew 2:11
On coming to the house, they saw the Child with His mother Mary, and they fell down and worshiped Him. Then they opened their treasures and presented Him with gifts of gold and frankincense…
- Song of Solomon 4:6
Before the day breaks and the shadows flee, I will make my way to the mountain of myrrh and to the hill of frankincense.
- Song of Solomon 1:3
Through
Judges 18:29They named it Dan, after their forefather Dan, who was born to Israel—though the city was formerly named Laish.
it leads to
- Joshua 19:47
(Later, when the territory of the Danites was lost to them, they went up and fought against Leshem, captured it, and put it to the sword. So they took possession of Leshem, settled there,…
- 1 Kings 15:20
And Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel, conquering Ijon, Dan, Abel-beth-maacah, and the whole land of Naphtali, including the region of Chinnereth.
- Genesis 14:14
And when Abram heard that his relative had been captured, he mobilized the 318 trained men born in his household, and they set out in pursuit as far as Dan.
- Joshua 19:47
About Ezekiel
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament.