They carved your oars from the oaks of Bashan. Your deck of pine from the coasts of Cyprus was inlaid with ivory.
Parallel translations
- WEB Of the oaks of Bashan have they made your oars; they have made your benches of ivory inlaid in boxwood, from the islands of Kittim.
- KJV Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; the company of the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of Chittim.
- BSB Of oaks from Bashan they made your oars; of wood from the coasts of Cyprus they made your deck, inlaid with ivory.
- NKJV Of oaks from Bashan they made your oars; The company of Ashurites have inlaid your planks With ivory from the coasts of Cyprus.
- NASB “Of oaks from Bashan they have made your rudders; With ivory they have inlaid your deck of boxwood from the coastlands of Cyprus.
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Her oars are oaks of Bashan and her deck inlaid with ivory and boxwood from Kittim. It continues cataloging Tyre's far-sourced splendor.
Overview
The imagery gathers materials from across the region, Bashan's oaks and ivory-inlaid boxwood from the western isles, to depict Tyre's opulence. Such detail reflects the breadth of her commercial empire and the luxury of her construction. The accumulating grandeur magnifies the loss when this glorious ship is later seen sinking.
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- Gen 10:4The sons of Javan were: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
- Isa 2:13For all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, for all the oaks of Bashan,
- Zech 11:2Wail, cypress tree, for the cedar has fallen, because the stately ones are destroyed. Wail, you oaks of Bashan, for the strong forest has come down.
- Jer 2:10For pass over to the islands of Kittim, and see; and send to Kedar, and consider diligently; and see if there has been such a thing.
- Num 21:33They turned and went up by the way of Bashan. Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.
- Isa 23:12He said, “You shall rejoice no more, you oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon. Arise, pass over to Kittim. Even there you will have no rest.”
- Num 24:24But ships shall come from the coast of Kittim. They shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber. He also shall come to destruction.”
- Jer 22:20“Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up your voice in Bashan, and cry from Abarim; for all your lovers are destroyed.
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