“ Dedan was thy merchant in preciousi clothes for chariots. ”
The thread broken at Ezekiel 27:8 is taken up, and the various nations are enumerated which traded with Tyre. Ezekiel 27:12 Tarshish - Tartessus in Spain (marginal references). Spain was...
Ezekiel 27. The Dirge over Tyre. The interest of the brilliant poem that follows is greatly enhanced by the description of the commerce of Tyre in a passage ( Ezekiel 27:9 b - Ezekiel 27:25 a...
Dedan was thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots. Dedan - Possibly the descendants of Dedan, son of Raamah, see Genesis 10:7 . In precious clothes for chariots - Either fine carpets, or ri...
Dedan was thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots. Dedan - in Arabia; distinct from the Dedan in Ezekiel 27:15 (see note). Descended from Abraham and Keturah ( Genesis 25:3 ). (Bochar...
The Wreck of the gallant Ship Under the figure of a ship, splendidly equipped, fully manned, and richly laden, but steered into stormy waters and wrecked, Ezekiel describes the fall of Tyre. In E...
Dedan. — See note on Ezekiel 27:15 . “Precious clothes,” literally, clothes of spreading, by which saddlecloths are probably meant.
TYRE (CONTINUED): SIDON Ezekiel 27:1-36 ; Ezekiel 28:1-26 THE remaining oracles on Tyre (Chapter s 27, Ezekiel 28:1-19 ) are somewhat different both in subject and mode of treatment from the...
At the command of Jehovah, Ezekiel then took up a lamentation for Tyre. This took the form of a pictorial representation of her as a gallant ship trafficking among the nations and ultimately wrecked,...
I have not interrupted the reading of the whole Chapter, for from the beginning to the close of the Chapter, it is but one and the same subject. The riches, trade, and commerce of Tyrus, fills the wh...
Dedan was thy merchant in precious cloths for chariots. Or, "cloths of freedom" u; such as freemen and even nobles wore; and yet so extravagant were the Tyrians, that they bought these to line or c...
Dedan [was] thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots. Ver. 20. in precious clothes. ] Heb., Clothes of freedom, such as are worn by gallants and magnificos. For chariots. ] Or, Saddles o...
Syria was thy merchant , &c. From what is said here, we may conclude that the inhabitants of Tyre were exceedingly industrious, skilful in arts, and politic; for here almost all nations are desc...
The Prosperity of Tyre. B. C. 588. 1 The word of the L ORD came again unto me, saying,...
Dedan, the posterity of Abraham by Keturah, who dwelt in Arabia, and were sheep-masters, and no doubt knew how to snake fine clothes of their wool. Precious clothes, with which they lined their c...
“Dedan was your trader in saddlecloths for riding, Arabia and all the princes of Kedar, they were your merchants (the merchants of your hand - compare Ezekiel 27:15 ), In lambs and rams and goats,...
TYRE’S FORMER GREATNESS, SUGGESTING A LAMENTATION OVER HER SAD DOWNFALL (Chap. 27) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—“The lamentation commences with a picture of the glory of the city of Tyre, its situation, its ar...
Ezekiel 27:6 . The isles of Chittim. Cilicia, Cyprus, Macedonia, the Greek islands, or Apulia on the shores of Italy. Thus critics take the word in a general sense. Ezekiel 27:9 . Gebal, a dis...
Take up a lamentation for Tyrus. A proud city The men of the world are wise, choosing the fittest places for their own advantage and interest. Let us learn so much of the men of the world, to b...
EXPOSITION Ezekiel 27:2 Take up a lamentation for Tyrus . The dirge over the merchant-city that follows, the doom sic transit gloria mundi, worked out with a fullness of detail which rem...
Description of the Commerce of Tyre
Ezekiel 27:15 ; Genesis 25:3
Dedan — The posterity of Abraham by Keturah, who dwelt in Arabia, and were sheep — masters. Clothes — With which they lined their chariots.