They brought choice fabrics to trade—blue cloth, embroidery, and multicolored carpets rolled up and bound with cords.
Parallel translations
- WEB These were your traffickers in choice wares, in wrappings of blue and embroidered work, and in chests of rich clothing, bound with cords and made of cedar, among your merchandise.
- KJV These were thy merchants in all sorts of things, in blue clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among thy merchandise.
- BSB In your marketplace they traded with you fine garments of blue, embroidered work, and multicolored rugs with cords tightly twisted and knotted.
- NKJV These were your merchants in choice items—in purple clothes, in embroidered garments, in chests of multicolored apparel, in sturdy woven cords, which were in your marketplace.
- NASB They traded with you in choice garments, in clothes of violet and colorfully woven cloth, and in blankets of two colors, and tightly wound cords, which were among your merchandise.
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Quick answer
These traders dealt in choice garments, blue and embroidered cloth, and rich clothing in cedar chests. It summarizes the luxury goods flowing through Tyre.
Overview
The verse gathers the high-end textiles and finely packed wares that passed through the city's markets. Such opulence depicts Tyre at the pinnacle of commercial refinement. This concluding note of luxury closes the trade catalog and prepares for the dramatic reversal in which the splendid ship is wrecked.
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- 2 Kgs 2:8Elijah took his mantle, and rolled it up, and struck the waters, and they were divided here and there, so that they both went over on dry ground.
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