The men of Dedan were thy merchants; many isles were the merchandise of thine hand: they brought thee for a present horns of ivory and ebony.
Parallel translations
- WEB The men of Dedan were your traffickers; many islands were the market of your hand: they brought you in exchange horns of ivory and ebony.
- BSB The men of Dedan were your clients; many coastlands were your market; they paid you with ivory tusks and ebony.
- NKJV The men of Dedan were your traders; many isles were the market of your hand. They brought you ivory tusks and ebony as payment.
- NASB The sons of Dedan were your traders. Many coastlands were your market; they brought ivory tusks and ebony as your payment.
- NLT Merchants came to you from Dedan. Numerous coastlands were your captive markets; they brought payment in ivory tusks and ebony wood.
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Dedan and many coastlands brought Tyre ivory and ebony in exchange. It extends the reach of her trade to distant markets.
Overview
Dedan and the 'many islands' supplied luxury goods like ivory horns and ebony wood. The list keeps widening to show Tyre as the meeting point of global commerce. This breadth of prosperity, soon to vanish, illustrates the fragility of wealth and the folly of resting one's confidence in it rather than in God.
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- 1 Kgs 10:22For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
- Rev 18:12The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble,
- Gen 10:7And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtechah: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.
- Jer 25:23Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that are in the utmost corners,
- Ezek 27:20Dedan was thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots.
- Ezek 25:13Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also stretch out mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword.
- 1 Chr 1:32Now the sons of Keturah, Abraham’s concubine: she bare Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan; Sheba, and Dedan.
- Gen 25:3And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.
- 1 Chr 1:9And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raamah, and Sabtecha. And the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.
- Jer 49:8Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I will visit him.
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