Ezekiel 27:16 BSB — MannaFest

Ezekiel 27:16

Aram was your customer because of your many products; they exchanged turquoise, purple, embroidered work, fine linen, coral, and rubies for your wares.

BSB

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ASV

Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of thy handiworks: they traded for thy wares with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and rubies.

KJV

Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate.

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Commentary

2 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 Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Syria - These were always a mercantile people. For the precious stones mentioned here see the notes on Exo 28:17 (note).

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

"Syria was thy mart for the multitude," &c. For "Syria" the Septuagint reads "Edom." But the Syrians were famed as merchants. occupied--old English for "traded"; so in Lu 19:13. agate--Others translate, "ruby," "chalcedony," or "pearls."

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
אֲרָ֥ם	'a.Ram	Aram	H758 →
סֹחַרְתֵּ֖ךְ	so.char.Tekh	[was] trader your	H5503 →
מֵרֹ֣ב	me.Ro	from [the] abundance of	H7230 →
מַעֲשָׂ֑יִךְ	ma.'a.Sa.yikh	products your	H4639 →
בְּ֠נֹפֶךְ	Be.no.fekh	for turquoise	H5306 →
אַרְגָּמָ֨ן	'ar.ga.Man	purple	H713 →
וְרִקְמָ֤ה	ve.rik.Mah	and multicolored cloth	H7553 →
וּבוּץ֙	u.Vutz	and fine linen	H948 →
וְרָאמֹ֣ת	ve.ra.Mot	and corals	H7215 →
וְכַדְכֹּ֔ד	ve.khad.Kod	and ruby	H3539 →
נָתְנ֖וּ	na.te.Nu	they exchanged	H5414 →
בְּעִזְבוֹנָֽיִךְ׃	be.'iz.vo.Na.yikh	for wares your	H5801 →

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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
Ezekiel 28:13
You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every kind of precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald. Your mountings and settings were crafted in…
leads to
- Ezekiel 28:15
  From the day you were created you were blameless in your ways—until wickedness was found in you.
- Genesis 2:8
  And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, where He placed the man He had formed.
- Isaiah 54:11–12
  “O afflicted city, lashed by storms, without solace, surely I will set your stones in antimony and lay your foundations with sapphires.
- Isaiah 51:3
  For the LORD will comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; He will make her wilderness like Eden and her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness…
Through
2 Samuel 10:6
When the Ammonites realized that they had become a stench to David, they hired twenty thousand Aramean foot soldiers from Beth-rehob and Zoba, as well as a thousand men from the king of Maacah…
leads to
- 2 Samuel 8:3
  David also defeated Hadadezer son of Rehob, king of Zobah, who had marched out to restore his dominion along the Euphrates River.
- 2 Samuel 8:5
  When the Arameans of Damascus came to help King Hadadezer of Zobah, David struck down twenty-two thousand men.
Through
Judges 10:6
And again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD. They served the Baals, the Ashtoreths, the gods of Aram, Sidon, and Moab, and the gods of the Ammonites and Philistines. Thus…
leads to
- 2 Kings 23:13
  The king also desecrated the high places east of Jerusalem, to the south of the Mount of Corruption, which King Solomon of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, for Chemosh…
- 1 Kings 11:7
  At that time on a hill east of Jerusalem, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites.

About Ezekiel

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

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