Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were your traffickers; they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass for your merchandise.
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- KJV Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market.
- BSB Javan, Tubal, and Meshech were your merchants. They exchanged slaves and bronze utensils for your merchandise.
- NKJV Javan, Tubal, and Meshech were your traders. They bartered human lives and vessels of bronze for your merchandise.
- NASB Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were your traders; with human lives and vessels of bronze they paid for your merchandise.
- NLT Merchants from Greece, Tubal, and Meshech brought slaves and articles of bronze to trade with you.
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- Gen 10:2The sons of Japheth were: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
- Isa 66:19“I will set a sign among them, and I will send those who escape of them to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to far-away islands, who have not heard my fame, nor have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the nations.
- Rev 18:13and cinnamon, incense, perfume, frankincense, wine, olive oil, fine flour, wheat, sheep, horses, chariots, and people’s bodies and souls.
- Ezek 39:1You, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal:
- 1 Chr 1:5The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
- Joel 3:3and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.
- Ezek 32:26There is Meshech, Tubal, and all their multitude; their graves are around them; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for they caused their terror in the land of the living.
- Ezek 38:2–3Son of man, set your face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him,
- Gen 10:4The sons of Javan were: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
- Dan 11:2Now will I show you the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than they all: and when he has grown strong through his riches, he shall stir up all against the realm of Greece.
- Ezek 27:19Vedan and Javan traded with yarn for your wares: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were among your merchandise.
- Dan 10:20Then he said, “Do you know why I have come to you? Now I will return to fight with the prince of Persia. When I go out, behold, the prince of Greece shall come.
- Dan 8:21The rough male goat is the king of Greece: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.
- 1 Chr 1:7The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
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