Arabia and all the princes of Kedar were your customers, trading in lambs, rams, and goats.
Parallel translations
- WEB Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they were the merchants of your hand; in lambs, and rams, and goats, in these were they your merchants.
- KJV Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with thee in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these were they thy merchants.
- NKJV Arabia and all the princes of Kedar were your regular merchants. They traded with you in lambs, rams, and goats.
- NASB Arabia and all the princes of Kedar, they were your customers for lambs, rams, and goats; for these they were your customers.
- NLT The Arabians and the princes of Kedar sent merchants to trade lambs and rams and male goats in exchange for your goods.
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Arabia and the princes of Kedar traded lambs, rams, and goats with Tyre. It records the livestock commerce of the desert peoples.
Overview
Nomadic Arabian tribes brought their flocks to Tyre's markets, broadening her trade beyond manufactured and luxury goods. The inclusion of pastoral peoples completes the picture of a city served by settled and nomadic nations alike. The all-encompassing scope of Tyre's wealth makes its impending ruin a vivid lesson in the vanity of riches.
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- Isa 60:7All the flocks of Kedar will be gathered to you; the rams of Nebaioth will serve you and go up on My altar with acceptance; I will adorn My glorious house.
- Gen 25:13These are the names of the sons of Ishmael in the order of their birth: Nebaioth the firstborn of Ishmael, then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,
- 1 Chr 1:29These are their genealogies: Nebaioth the firstborn of Ishmael, then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,
- Jer 25:24all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mixed tribes who dwell in the desert;
- 2 Chr 17:11Some Philistines also brought gifts and silver as tribute to Jehoshaphat, and the Arabs brought him 7,700 rams and 7,700 goats from their flocks.
- 1 Kgs 10:15not including the revenue from the merchants, traders, and all the Arabian kings and governors of the land.
- Isa 21:16For this is what the Lord says to me: “Within one year, as a hired worker would count it, all the glory of Kedar will be gone.
- Song 1:5I am dark, yet lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.
- Gal 4:25Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present-day Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children.
- Acts 2:11both Jews and converts to Judaism; Cretans and Arabs—we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!”
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