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Ezekiel 27:19

in Ezekiel 27

and 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.

This verse in Ezekiel 27

Commentary

6 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel · Written before 420.

(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

casks of wine from Izal

on Ezekiel 27:19-22

The list continues through Dan and Javan with iron, cassia and calamus. Sheba and Raamah close the section with the chief of all spices. Gill reads the sheer breadth of the list as the chapter's own argument for the scale of what falls when the city falls.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

), which is designed to make its ruin the more lamentable. A prediction of its fall and ruin, and the confusion and consternation which all its neighbours shall thereby be put into,

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Dan also and Javan, going to and fro, occupied in thy fairs,....

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

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 & Brown

1802–1910

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 words

Every 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.

  • 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 stops

Each 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 45:8

    All 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.

  • Through

    Judges 18:29

    They 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.

Where this verse is studied

About Ezekiel

Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

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; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.