Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad, were thy merchants.
Parallel translations
- WEB Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traffickers of Sheba, Asshur and Chilmad, were your traffickers.
- BSB Haran, Canneh, and Eden traded with you, and so did the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad.
- 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 19:12Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar?
- Isa 37:12Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Telassar?
- Amos 1:5I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith the LORD.
- Gen 10:22The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.
- Acts 7:4Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell.
- Gen 25:3And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.
- Ps 83:8Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.
- Job 1:15And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
- Gen 32:22And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok.
- Gen 2:8And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
- Num 24:22Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted, until Asshur shall carry thee away captive.
- Isa 7:18And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
- Gen 10:10And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
- Gen 11:31–32And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.
- Isa 7:20In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.
- Isa 10:9Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?
- Amos 6:2Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: be they better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border?
- Gen 12:4So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.
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