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.
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Ezekiel 27:6
6 Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; the companyd of the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of Chittim.