Ezekiel 27:15 BSB — MannaFest

Ezekiel 27:15

The men of Dedan were your clients; many coastlands were your market; they paid you with ivory tusks and ebony.

BSB

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ASV

The men of Dedan were thy traffickers; many isles were the mart of thy hand: they brought thee in exchange horns of ivory and ebony.

KJV

The men of Dedan were thy merchants; many isles were the merchandise of thine hand: they brought thee for a present horns of ivory and ebony.

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Commentary

4 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel (420)

(Vers. 15, 16.) Many islands have traded with your merchandise: they have exchanged ivory and ebony for your price. Your merchant, Syrus, because of the multitude of your works, has presented pearls, purple, embroidered garments, fine linen, silk, and scarlet in your market. LXX: They have multiplied your merchandise with islands: you were repaying your wages with elephant tusks and those who were being brought in. Your business has been purchased by many of your customers: They traded in aphec, stacten, and polymita from Tharsis and Ramoth and Chodchod in your market.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Isles - In the Indian seas, and in the Red-sea traded with thee. Horns - Elk's horns, or wild goats. Ebony - Is a very solid, heavy, shining, black wood, fit for many choice works.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

The men of Dedan - Dedan was one of the descendants of Abraham by Keturah, and dwelt in Arabia, Gen 25:3. Ivory and ebony might come from that quarter. By way of distinction ivory is called both in Hebrew ש shen, and in Arabic shen, the Tooth, as that beautiful substance is the tooth of the elephant.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

The Hebrew word for "ivory" means "tooth"; so that they cannot have mistaken ivory as if coming from the horns of certain animals, instead of from the tusks of the elephant.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
בְּנֵ֤י	be.Nei	[the] people of	H1121 →
דְדָן֙	de.Dan	Dedan	H1719 →
רֹֽכְלַ֔יִךְ	ro.khe.La.yikh	[were] traders your	H7402 →
אִיִּ֥ים	'i.Yim	islands	H339 →
רַבִּ֖ים	ra.Bim	many	H7227 →
סְחֹרַ֣ת	se.cho.Rat	[were] [the] merchandise of	H5506 →
יָדֵ֑ךְ	ya.Dekh	hand your	H3027 →
קַרְנ֥וֹת	kar.Not	horns of	H7161 →
שֵׁן֙	shen	ivory	H8127 →
וְהָבְנִ֔ים	ve.hov.nim	and ebony	H1894 →
הֵשִׁ֖יבוּ	he.Shi.vu	they brought	H7725 →
אֶשְׁכָּרֵֽךְ׃	'esh.ka.Rekh	tribute your	H814 →

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The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Kings 10:22
For the king had the ships of Tarshish at sea with Hiram’s fleet, and once every three years the ships of Tarshish would arrive bearing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
leads to
- Psalms 72:10
  May the kings of Tarshish and distant shores bring tribute; may the kings of Sheba and Seba offer gifts.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 1 Kings 22:48
  Jehoshaphat built ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they never set sail, because they were wrecked at Ezion-geber.
- 2 Chronicles 20:36–37
  They agreed to make ships to go to Tarshish, and these were built in Ezion-geber.
Through
Revelation 18:12
cargo of gold, silver, precious stones, and pearls; of fine linen, purple, silk, and scarlet; of all kinds of citron wood and every article of ivory, precious wood, bronze, iron, and marble;
leads to
- Revelation 17:4
  The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls. She held in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual…
Through
Jeremiah 25:23
Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who cut the corners of their hair;
leads to
- Jeremiah 9:26
  Egypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, Moab, and all the inhabitants of the desert who clip the hair of their temples. For all these nations are uncircumcised, and the whole house of Israel is uncircumcised in…
- Jeremiah 49:32
  Their camels will become plunder, and their large herds will be spoil. I will scatter to the wind in every direction those who shave their temples; I will bring calamity on them from all…
- Jeremiah 49:8
  Turn and run! Lie low, O dwellers of Dedan, for I will bring disaster on Esau at the time I punish him.
Through
Genesis 10:7
The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
leads to
- Ezekiel 27:22
  The merchants of Sheba and Raamah traded with you; for your wares they exchanged gold, the finest of all spices, and precious stones.

About Ezekiel

The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Ezekiel

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Ezekiel