Ezekiel 27:6

Ezekiel 27:6

4 Your borders are in the midst of the seas.
Your builders have perfected your beauty.

5 They¹ made all your planks of fir trees from ^aSenir;
They took a cedar from Lebanon to make you a mast.

6 Of ^aoaks from Bashan they made your oars;
The company of Ashurites have inlaid your planks
With ivory from ^bthe coasts of Cyprus.

7 Fine embroidered linen from Egypt was what you spread for your sail;
Blue and purple from the coasts of Elishah was what covered you.

8 “Inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your oarsmen;
Your wise men, O Tyre, were in you;
They became your pilots.

9 Elders of ^aGebal and its wise men
Were in you to caulk your seams;
All the ships of the sea
And their oarsmen were in you
To market your merchandise.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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Bashan—celebrated for its oaks, as Lebanon was for its cedars.

the company of . . . Ashurites—the most skilful workmen summoned from Assyria. Rather, as the Hebrew orthography requires, "They have made thy (rowing) benches of ivory inlaid in the daughter of cedars" [MAURER], or, the best boxwood. FAIRBAIRN, with BOCHART, reads the Hebrew two words as one: "Thy plankwork (deck: instead of 'benches,' as the Hebrew is singular) they made ivory with boxes." English Version, with MAURER'S correction, is simpler.

Chittim—Cyprus and Macedonia, from which, PLINY tells us, the best boxwood came [GROTIUS].

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