Haran, Canneh, and Eden traded with you, and so did the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad.
Parallel translations
- WEB Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traffickers of Sheba, Asshur and Chilmad, were your traffickers.
- KJV Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad, were thy merchants.
- NKJV Haran, Canneh, Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Assyria, and Chilmad were your merchants.
- NASB Haran, Canneh, Eden, the traders of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad traded with you.
- NLT “Haran, Canneh, Eden, Sheba, Asshur, and Kilmad came with their merchandise, too.
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Haran, Canneh, Eden, Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad were among Tyre's traders. It names the great inland and Mesopotamian partners.
Overview
This cluster of Mesopotamian and Arabian centers, including mighty Asshur (Assyria), shows that even the great empires dealt with Tyre. The catalog stretches from the seacoasts to the heart of the continent. The breadth of these partnerships magnifies Tyre's apparent invincibility, making her divinely decreed fall all the more sobering.
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- 2 Kgs 19:12Did the gods of the nations destroyed by my fathers rescue those nations—the gods of Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, and of the people of Eden in Telassar?
- Isa 37:12Did the gods of the nations destroyed by my fathers rescue those nations—the gods of Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, and of the people of Eden in Telassar?
- Amos 1:5I will break down the gates of Damascus; I will cut off the ruler of the Valley of Aven and the one who wields the scepter in Beth-eden. The people of Aram will be exiled to Kir,” says the LORD.
- Gen 10:22The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.
- Acts 7:4So Abraham left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After his father died, God brought him out of that place and into this land where you are now living.
- Gen 25:3Jokshan was the father of Sheba and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were the Asshurites, the Letushites, and the Leummites.
- Ps 83:8Even Assyria has joined them, lending strength to the sons of Lot. Selah
- Job 1:15the Sabeans swooped down and took them away. They put the servants to the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”
- Gen 32:22During the night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two maidservants, and his eleven sons, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.
- Gen 2:8And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, where He placed the man He had formed.
- Num 24:22Yet Kain will be destroyed when Asshur takes you captive.”
- Isa 7:18On that day the LORD will whistle to the flies at the farthest streams of the Nile and to the bees in the land of Assyria.
- Gen 10:10His kingdom began in Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
- Gen 11:31–32And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan. But when they arrived in Haran, they settled there.
- Isa 7:20On that day the Lord will use a razor hired from beyond the Euphrates—the king of Assyria—to shave your head and the hair of your legs, and to remove your beard as well.
- Isa 10:9“Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?
- Amos 6:2Cross over to Calneh and see; go from there to the great Hamath; then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are you better than these kingdoms? Is their territory larger than yours?
- Gen 12:4So Abram departed, as the LORD had directed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.
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