Ezekiel 27:24
in Ezekiel 27In your marketplace they traded with you fine garments of blue, embroidered work, and multicolored rugs with cords tightly twisted and knotted.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
These were thy traffickers in choice wares, in wrappings of blue and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords and made of cedar, among thy merchandise.
KJV
These were thy merchants in all sorts of things, in blue clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among thy merchandise.
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This verse in Ezekiel 27
Commentary
7 notes on this verse(Verse 23, 24.) Aran, and Channe, and Eden, your traders were from Saba, Assur, Chelmad, your sellers: these traders of yours had various wrappings of hyacinth and precious gems, which were wrapped and tied with ropes. LXX: Charran, and Chana, and Edne, these were your traders: Sabba, Assur, and Chalman, your merchants, bringing merchandise + in Machalim, and in Galima ** hyacinth and + polymita ** precious treasures tied with ropes. And these are the names of the various places. The addition made by Theodotion to the Septuagint was interpreted by Symmachus as 'precious coverings' in Machalim and in Galima.
This site's exposition
Haran, Canneh, and Eden
on Ezekiel 27:23-25
The list turns from goods to acclaim: the ships of Tarshish did sing of thee. This is the chapter's high point, the ship fully built, fully crewed, fully laden and fully praised. Keil reads the placement deliberately, the fullest description of Tyre's glory set beside the account of its sinking.
This site's exposition
multicolored rugs with cords tightly twisted
These fine garments and rugs are finished luxury textiles brought to the marketplace of Tyre from Mesopotamia, the region named in verse 23. The Hebrew word for rugs is rare, and older versions read it as chests of costly garments bound with cords. Blue dye was costly.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
), 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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These were thy merchants in all sorts of things,....
For, notwithstanding its pretensions to sanctity, it is a mere worldly interest. [7.] Though Tyre was a city of great merchandise, and they got abundance by buying and selling, importing commodities from one place and exporting them to another, yet manufacture-trades were not neglected. The wares of their own making, and a multitude of such wares, are here spoken of,
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
These were thy merchants in all sorts of things - The above people traded with the Tyrians in a great variety of the most valuable merchandise: blue or purple cloth, boxes of cedar, covered with skins, and bound with silken cords, and sealed with an engraved seal, finely cut, etc. See the Chaldee.
The words behind it
12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| הֵ֤מָּה | hemah | they | H1992 → | 553 times |
| רֹכְלַ֙יִךְ֙ | rokhelayikh | [were] traders your | H7402 → | 17 times |
| בְּמַכְלֻלִ֔ים | vemakhlulim | for beautiful garments | H4360 → | |
| בִּגְלוֹמֵי֙ | biglomei | for garments of | H1545 → | |
| תְּכֵ֣לֶת | tekhelet | blue | H8504 → | 49 times |
| וְרִקְמָ֔ה | verikmah | and multicolored cloth | H7553 → | 12 times |
| וּבְגִנְזֵ֖י | uveginzei | and for blankets of | H1595 → | |
| בְּרֹמִ֑ים | beromim | variegated cloth | H1264 → | |
| בַּחֲבָלִ֧ים | bachavalim | for ropes | H2256 → | |
| חֲבֻשִׁ֛ים | chavushim | bound | H2280 → | 33 times |
| וַאֲרֻזִ֖ים | vaaruzim | and made firm | H729 → | |
| בְּמַרְכֻלְתֵּֽךְ׃ | bemarkhultekh | in market place your | H4819 → |
הֵ֤מָּהthey
hemahH1992 →553 times
רֹכְלַ֙יִךְ֙[were] traders your
rokhelayikhH7402 →17 times
בְּמַכְלֻלִ֔יםfor beautiful garments
vemakhlulimH4360 →
בִּגְלוֹמֵי֙for garments of
biglomeiH1545 →
תְּכֵ֣לֶתblue
tekheletH8504 →49 times
וְרִקְמָ֔הand multicolored cloth
verikmahH7553 →12 times
וּבְגִנְזֵ֖יand for blankets of
uveginzeiH1595 →
בְּרֹמִ֑יםvariegated cloth
beromimH1264 →
בַּחֲבָלִ֧יםfor ropes
bachavalimH2256 →
חֲבֻשִׁ֛יםbound
chavushimH2280 →33 times
וַאֲרֻזִ֖יםand made firm
vaaruzimH729 →
בְּמַרְכֻלְתֵּֽךְ׃in market place your
bemarkhultekhH4819 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
5 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
2 Kings 2:8And Elijah took his cloak, rolled it up, and struck the waters, which parted to the right and to the left, so that the two of them crossed over on dry ground.
it leads to
- 1 Kings 19:19
So Elijah departed and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was plowing with twelve teams of oxen, and he was with the twelfth team. Elijah passed by him and threw his cloak around him.
- Exodus 14:21–22
Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove back the sea with a strong east wind that turned it into dry land. So the waters were…
- Joshua 3:14–17
So when the people broke camp to cross the Jordan, the priests carried the ark of the covenant ahead of them.
- 2 Kings 2:14
Then he took the cloak of Elijah that had fallen from him and struck the waters. “Where now is the LORD, the God of Elijah?” he asked. And when he had struck the waters,…
- Isaiah 11:15
The LORD will devote to destruction the gulf of the Sea of Egypt; with a scorching wind He will sweep His hand over the Euphrates. He will split it into seven streams for men…
- 1 Kings 19:19
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About Ezekiel
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Ezekiel; Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Ezekiel; 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.