Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traffickers of Sheba, Asshur and Chilmad, were your traffickers.
Parallel translations
- KJV Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad, were thy merchants.
- 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, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar?
- Isa 37:12Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar?
- Amos 1:5I will break the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the valley of Aven, and him who holds the scepter from the house of Eden; and the people of Syria shall go into captivity to Kir,” says Yahweh.
- Gen 10:22The sons of Shem were: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.
- Acts 7:4Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and lived in Haran. From there, when his father was dead, God moved him into this land, where you are now living.
- Gen 25:3Jokshan became the father of Sheba, and Dedan. The sons of Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim.
- Ps 83:8Assyria also is joined with them. They have helped the children of Lot. Selah.
- Job 1:15and the Sabeans attacked, and took them away. Yes, they have killed the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
- Gen 32:22He rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two servants, and his eleven sons, and crossed over the ford of the Jabbok.
- Gen 2:8Yahweh God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.
- Num 24:22Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted, until Asshur carries you away captive.”
- Isa 7:18It will happen in that day that Yahweh will whistle 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 10:10The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
- Gen 11:31–32Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife. They went from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there.
- Isa 7:20In that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired in the parts beyond the River, even with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet; and it shall also consume the beard.
- Isa 10:9Isn’t Calno like Carchemish? Isn’t Hamath like Arpad? Isn’t Samaria like Damascus?”
- Amos 6:2Go to Calneh, and see; and from there go to Hamath the great; then go down to Gath of the Philistines. are they better than these kingdoms? or is their border greater than your border?
- Gen 12:4So Abram went, as Yahweh had told him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
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