Ezekiel 27:6 BSB — MannaFest

Ezekiel 27:6

Of oaks from Bashan they made your oars; of wood from the coasts of Cyprus they made your deck, inlaid with ivory.

BSB

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ASV

Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; they have made thy benches of ivory inlaid in boxwood, from the isles of Kittim.

KJV

Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; the company of the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of Chittim.

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Commentary

4 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel (420)

(Vers. 6.) They have fashioned oars for your ship from the oak trees of Bashan: they have made your benches out of Indian ivory, and your decks out of the islands of Italy. LXX: They have made your oars and your temples out of the oak trees of Bashan, and they have made for you wild houses out of ivory from the islands of the Kittim.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

With box - From the isles, and parts about the Ionian, Aegean, and other seas of the Mediterranean, where box-tree is a native, and of great growth and firmness, fit to saw into boards for benches; they were conveyed to Tyre, where their artists inlaid these box boards with ivory, and made them beautiful seats in their ships.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Of the oaks of Bashan - Some translate alder, others the pine. The company of the Ashurites - The word אשרים asherim is by several translated boxwood. The seats or benches being made of this wood inlaid with ivory. Isles of Chittim - The Italian islands; the islands of Greece; Cyprus. Calmet says Macedonia is meant.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Rather, as the Hebrew orthography requires, "They have made thy (rowing) benches of ivory inlaid in the daughter of cedars" [MAURER], or, the best boxwood. FAIRBAIRN, with BOCHART, reads the Hebrew two words as one: "Thy plankwork (deck: instead of 'benches,' as the Hebrew is singular) they made ivory with boxes." English Version, with MAURER'S correction, is simpler.

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
אַלּוֹנִים֙	'a.lo.Nim	oaks	H437 →
מִבָּ֔שָׁן	mi.Ba.shon	from Bashan	H1316 →
עָשׂ֖וּ	'a.Su	they made	H6213 →
מִשּׁוֹטָ֑יִךְ	mi.sho.Ta.yikh	oars your	H4880 →
קַרְשֵׁ֤ךְ	kar.Shekh	boards your	H7175 →
עָֽשׂוּ־	'a.su-	they made	H6213 →
שֵׁן֙	shen	ivory	H8127 →
בַּת־	bat-	inlaid in	H1323 →
אֲשֻׁרִ֔ים	'a.shu.Rim	pine	H839 →
מֵאִיֵּ֖י	me.'i.Yei	from [the] islands of	H339 →
כִּתִּיִּֽים׃	ki.ti.yim	Kittim	H3794 →

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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
Genesis 10:4
And the sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittites, and the Rodanites.
leads to
- Daniel 11:30
  Ships of Kittim will come against him, and he will lose heart. Then he will turn back and rage against the holy covenant and do damage. So he will return and show favor to…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Numbers 24:24
  Ships will come from the coasts of Cyprus; they will subdue Asshur and Eber, but they too will perish forever.”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Isaiah 23:12
  He said, “You shall rejoice no more, O oppressed Virgin Daughter of Sidon. Get up and cross over to Cyprus—even there you will find no rest.”
Through
Numbers 21:33
Then they turned and went up the road to Bashan, and Og king of Bashan and his whole army came out to meet them in battle at Edrei.
leads to
- Joshua 13:12
  the whole kingdom of Og in Bashan, who had reigned in Ashtaroth and Edrei and had remained as a remnant of the Rephaim. Moses had struck them down and dispossessed them,
- Deuteronomy 29:7
  When you reached this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out against us in battle, but we defeated them.
- Deuteronomy 1:4
  This was after he had defeated Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and then at Edrei had defeated Og king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth.
Through
Zechariah 11:2
Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen; the majestic trees are ruined! Wail, O oaks of Bashan, for the dense forest has been cut down!
leads to
- Isaiah 10:33–34
  Behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts will lop off the branches with terrifying power. The tall trees will be cut down, the lofty ones will be felled.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Jeremiah 2:10
Cross over to the coasts of Cyprus and take a look; send to Kedar and consider carefully; see if there has ever been anything like this:
leads to
- Psalms 120:5
  Woe to me that I dwell in Meshech, that I live among the tents of Kedar!

About Ezekiel

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

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Ezekiel

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Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

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About Ezekiel