Into a land of traffick. — Literally, a land of Canaan, the word being sometimes used for merchant or merchandise, as in Hosea 12:8 (Engl. 7); Isaiah 23:8; Zephaniah 1:11. The parallelism of the next clause shows that this is its meaning here. Babylon has already been called Canaan in Ezekiel 16:29, probably from its commercial character.
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Ezekiel 17:4
4 He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants.