Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market.
Dan also. None of the other places enumerated commence with the copula (also; Hebrew, wª-). Moreover, the products specified, "cassia and calamus," apply rather to places in Arabia. Therefore Fairbairn translates, 'Vedan:' perhaps the modern Aden, near the Straits of Babel-mandeb. Grotius refers it to Dana, mentioned by Ptolemy.
Javan - not the Greeks of Europe or Asia Minor, but of a Greek settlement in Arabia.
Going to and fro - rather, as the Hebrew admits, 'from Uzal.' This is added to "Javan," to mark which Javan is meant (Genesis 10:27); the metropolis of Arabia Felix, or Yemen: called also Sanaa (Bochart). The English version gives a good sense: thus, All peoples, whether near, as the Israelite "Dan," on the sea coasts, or far off, as the Greeks or "Javan," who were wont to "go to and fro" from their love of traffic, frequented thy marts, bringing bright iron, "cassia, and calamus," these products not being necessarily represented as those of Dan or Javan, but merely as being conveyed by them to the markets of Tyre.
Bright iron. Yemen is still famed for its sword blades.
Calamus - aromatic cane.