The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were thy merchants: they occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold.
The merchants of Sheba and Raamah - (see my note on Joel 3:8. Raamah was on the Persian Gulf, and was the seat of the Hamite Sabeans, descended from Sheba the son of Raamah, the son of Cush. Whereas the Shemite Sabeans, descended from Sheba, the tenth son of Joktan, dwelt in the southwest of Arabia, from the Red Sea to the Straits of Babel-mandeb. So that Ezekiel recites the two channels of merchandise-Raamah on the Persian Gulf, Sheba on the Red Sea, in Arabia).
They occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold - obtained from India and conveyed in caravans to Tyre.
Chief of ... spices - i:e., best spices (Deuteronomy 33:15).