Elders of Gebal and its wise men Were in you to caulk your seams; All the ships of the sea And their oarsmen were in you To market your merchandise.
Parallel translations
- WEB The old men of Gebal and its wise men were your repairers of ship seams in you: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in you to deal in your merchandise.
- KJV The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise.
- BSB The elders of Gebal were aboard as shipwrights, repairing your leaks. All the ships of the sea and their sailors came alongside to barter for your merchandise.
- NASB “The elders of Gebal and her wise men were with you repairing your leaks; All the ships of the sea and their sailors were with you in order to deal in your merchandise.
- NLT Wise old craftsmen from Gebal did the caulking. Ships from every land came with goods to barter for your trade.
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Gebal's elders caulked her seams, and ships from across the sea came to trade in her. It portrays Tyre as the bustling center of maritime commerce.
Overview
Gebal (Byblos) supplied seasoned craftsmen to maintain the ship, and merchant vessels gathered to do business with her. The picture is of a thriving hub on which the trading world depended. This vivid prosperity heightens the tragedy of the coming wreck, reminding us that no human enterprise, however central, is beyond the reach of God's judgment.
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Cross-references · 3
- 1 Kgs 5:18Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders and the Gebalites cut them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.
- Josh 13:5and the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, from Baal Gad under Mount Hermon to the entrance of Hamath;
- Ps 83:7Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
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