Ezekiel 27:9 BSB — MannaFest

Ezekiel 27:9

The elders of Gebal were aboard as shipwrights, repairing your leaks. All the ships of the sea and their sailors came alongside to barter for your merchandise.

BSB

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ASV

The old men of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to deal in thy merchandise.

KJV

The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise.

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Commentary

3 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

The ancients of Gebal,.... A promontory of the Phoenicians, the same with the Gabale of Pliny (n), and with the land of the Giblites, Jos 13:5. It was by the Greeks called Byblus; and so the Septuagint here render the words, the elders of Bybli or Byblus, a place once famous for the birth and temple of Adonis; it is now called Gibyle.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel (420)

(Vers. 8, 9.) The inhabitants of Sidon and Arad were your sailors. Your wise men, Tyre, became your captains. The elders of Biblos and their wise men provided sailors for the service of your various goods. All the ships of the sea and their sailors were in the service of your commerce. LXX: Your princes dwelled in Sidon and the men of Arad were your sailors. Your wise men, Sora, who were in you, they were your captains.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Gebal - i. e., Byblos (modern Gebeil) in Phoenicia, the chief seat of the worship of Adonis, and situated on an eminence over-looking the river Adonis, north of Beirut, not far from the Mediterranean sea. The “ancients” is a term for the council that presided over maritime cities.

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Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
זִקְנֵ֨י	zik.Nei	[the] elders of	H2205 →
גְבַ֤ל	ge.Val	Gebal	H1380 →
וַחֲכָמֶ֙יהָ֙	va.cha.kha.Mei.ha	and wise [people] its	H2450 →
הָ֣יוּ	Ha.yu	they were	H1961 →
בָ֔ךְ	Vakh	in you
מַחֲזִיקֵ֖י	ma.cha.zi.Kei	[the] repairers of	H2388 →
בִּדְקֵ֑ךְ	bid.Kekh	leaks your	H919 →
כָּל־	kol-	all	H3605 →
אֳנִיּ֨וֹת	'o.ni.Yot	[the] ships of	H591 →
הַיָּ֤ם	hai.Yam	the sea	H3220 →
וּמַלָּֽחֵיהֶם֙	u.ma.la.chei.Hem	and mariners their	H4419 →
הָ֣יוּ	Ha.yu	they were	H1961 →
בָ֔ךְ	Vakh	in you
לַעֲרֹ֖ב	la.'a.Ro	to trade	H6148 →
מַעֲרָבֵֽךְ׃	ma.'a.ra.Vekh	merchandise your	H4627 →

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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
Psalms 83:7
of Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, of Philistia with the people of Tyre.
leads to
- Joshua 13:5
  the land of the Gebalites; and all Lebanon to the east, from Baal-gad below Mount Hermon to Lebo-hamath.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Ezekiel 27:3
  Tell Tyre, who dwells at the gateway to the sea, merchant of the peoples on many coasts, that this is what the Lord GOD says: You have said, O Tyre, ‘I am perfect in…
- 1 Samuel 4:1
  Thus the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now the Israelites went out to meet the Philistines in battle and camped at Ebenezer, while the Philistines camped at Aphek.
Through
Joshua 13:5
the land of the Gebalites; and all Lebanon to the east, from Baal-gad below Mount Hermon to Lebo-hamath.
leads to
- Psalms 83:7
  of Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, of Philistia with the people of Tyre.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 1 Kings 5:18
  So Solomon’s and Hiram’s builders, along with the Gebalites, quarried the stone and prepared the timber and stone for the construction of the temple.
- Joshua 12:7
  And these are the kings of the land that Joshua and the Israelites conquered beyond the Jordan to the west, from Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir…
- Joshua 11:17
  from Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir, as far as Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon at the foot of Mount Hermon. He captured all their kings and struck them down, putting them to…
- Numbers 34:8

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06About Ezekiel

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