The Arabians and the princes of Kedar sent merchants to trade lambs and rams and male goats in exchange for your goods.
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.
- BSB Arabia and all the princes of Kedar were your customers, trading in lambs, rams, and goats.
- 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.
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Quick answer
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 together to you. The rams of Nebaioth will serve you. They will be accepted as offerings on my altar; and I will beautify my glorious house.
- Gen 25:13These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to the order of their birth: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth, then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,
- 1 Chr 1:29These are their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth; then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,
- Jer 25:24and all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mixed people who dwell in the wilderness;
- 2 Chr 17:11Some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents and silver for tribute. The Arabians also brought him flocks, seven thousand seven hundred rams, and seven thousand seven hundred male goats.
- 1 Kgs 10:15besides that which the traders brought, and the traffic of the merchants, and of all the kings of the mixed people, and of the governors of the country.
- Isa 21:16For the Lord said to me, “Within a year, as a worker bound by contract would count it, all the glory of Kedar will fail,
- Song 1:5I am dark, but lovely, you daughters of Jerusalem, like Kedar’s tents, like Solomon’s curtains.
- Gal 4:25For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to the Jerusalem that exists now, for she is in bondage with her children.
- Acts 2:11Cretans and Arabians: we hear them speaking in our languages the mighty works of God!”
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