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Ezekiel 27:23

Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad, were thy merchants.

Haran - the dwelling-place of Abraham in Mesopotamia after he moved from Ur () Haran - the dwelling-place of Abraham in Mesopotamia, after he moved from Ur ().

Canneh - Calneh, an Assyrian city on the Tigris; the Ctesiphon of the Greeks ().

Eden - probably a region in Babylonia (see ; ).

Chilmad - a compound; the place designated by Ptolemy Gaala of Media. The Chaldaic version interprets it of Media. Henderson refers it to Carmanda, which Xenophon describe as a large city beyond the Euphrates.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Ezekiel 27:23. _HARAN_] In Mesopotamia; well known in Scripture. _CANNEH_] Or _Chalane_; see Genesis 10:10. It is supposed to be a cape or port of Arabia Felix, on the Indian Sea. _EDEN_] Equ...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    The thread broken at Ezekiel 27:8 is taken up, and the various nations are enumerated which traded with Tyre. Ezekiel 27:12 TARSHISH - Tartessus in Spain (marginal references). Spain was rich in the...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    Ezekiel 27:1. Ezekiel 27:1 give an interesting description of the world-wide commerce and glory of this proud world city. “Sic transit gloria mundi,” thus passeth the glory of the world! Of the proud...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    EZEKIEL 27. THE DIRGE OVER TYRE. The interest of the brilliant poem that follows is greatly enhanced by the description of the commerce of Tyre in a passage (Ezekiel 27:9_ b_ - Ezekiel 27:25_ a_) rema...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    HARAN. Now Harran, between the Euphrates and the Khabour (Gen 11:35). CANNEH. Probably now Calneh,. Babylonian city (Genesis 10:10). EDEN. In Mesopotamia (2 Kings 19:12.Isaiah 37:12.

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The market of Tyre Several things are to be observed in this passage: 1. The representation is not that Tyre is traded with by the nations, though this is the fact lying under the figures employed. T...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The places named may be regarded as an extension of the line from S. to N. in Ezekiel 27:19, though the names are given rather in the order W. to E. Harran in Mesopotamia, two days" journey S.E. of Ed...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    CANNEH— Houbigant and Grotius both read _Calane;_ for the neighbouring places are nearly the same as in Genesis, ch. 10:...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    II. THE LAMENTATION OVER TYRE 27:1-36 Chapter 27 consists of an allegorical dirge song artistically interrupted by a prose section. Tyre is pictured as a beautiful ship superbly fitted out and manned...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    B. The Ship in her Ports of Call 27:12-25a TRANSLATION (12) Tarshish was your client because of the abundance of all kinds of wealth; silver, iron, tin and lead they traded for your wares. (13) Javan...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE WRECK OF THE GALLANT SHIP Under the figure of a ship, splendidly equipped, fully manned, and richly laden, but steered into stormy waters and wrecked, Ezekiel describes the fall of Tyre. In Ezeki...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    HARAN] in Mesopotamia (Genesis 11:31). CANNEH] perhaps Calneh, a Babylonian city (Genesis 10:10). EDEN] either Beth-Eden, a state in the W. of Mesopotamia, mentioned in the inscriptions and in 2 Kings...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    HARAN, AND CANNEH, AND EDEN. — The description now turns from Arabia to the Tyrian trade with Mesopotamia. Haran, important in the story of Abraham (Genesis 11:31; Genesis 12:4), the Charræ of the Rom...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    חָרָ֤ן וְ כַנֵּה֙ וָ עֶ֔דֶן רֹכְלֵ֖י שְׁבָ֑א

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    At the command of Jehovah, Ezekiel then took up a lamentation for Tyre. This took the form of a pictorial representation of her as a gallant ship trafficking among the nations and ultimately wrecked,...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Haran, or Charæ, famous for the residence of Abraham and the defeat of Crassus. --- Eden, the province where Paradise was situated._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I have not interrupted the reading of the whole Chapter, for from the beginning to the close of the Chapter, it is but one and the same subject. The riches, trade, and commerce of Tyrus, fills the who...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 26, 27, AND 28. Although in a certain sense upon Israel's territory, Tyre has another character, and is the subject of a separate prophecy (chaps. 26-28), bec...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    HARAN, AND CANNEH, AND EDEN,.... Haran was a city of Mesopotamia, the same with Haran, where Abraham dwelt awhile, Acts 7:2, the Charrae of the Parthians, famous for the defeat of Crassus. Canneh is t...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, [and] Chilmad, [were] thy merchants. Ver. 23. _Haran._] In Mesopotamia, or Charrae, in Parthia, where Crassus was slain. _ And Channeh,_]...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Haran, in Mesopotamia, AND CANNEH, the later Ctesiphon, a commercial center on the Tigris, AND EDEN, in Mesopotamia, THE MERCHANTS OF SHEBA, ASSHUR, or Assyria, AND CHILMAD, west of the Euphrates, WER...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    DESCRIPTION OF THE COMMERCE OF TYRE...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-25 Those who live at ease are to be lamented, if they are not prepared for trouble. Let none reckon themselves beautified, any further than they are sanctified. The account of the trade of Tyre int...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    HARAN; Haran or Charran in Mesopotamia, where Abraham dwelt. CANNEH; no where else mentioned, supposed to be the same with Calneh, GENESIS 10:10, afterwards Ctesiphon, a pleasant city on Tigris, some...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ezekiel 27:23 Haran H2771 Canneh H3656 Eden H5729 merchants H7402 (H8802) Sheba H7614 Assyria H804 Chilmad H3638 m

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Ezekiel 27:6. _The isles of Chittim._ Cilicia, Cyprus, Macedonia, the Greek islands, or Apulia on the shores of Italy. Thus critics take the word in a general sense. Ezekiel 27:9. _Gebal,_ a district...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches._ THE FAIRS OF TYRE Let us look in upon a world’s fair at Tyre. Ezekiel leads us through one department, and it is a horse...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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