Ezekiel 27:17

Judah and the land of Israel furnished Tyre with wheat, honey, oil and balsam.

traded in thy market wheat they brought as thy wares wheat. Minnith is supposed to be the Ammonitish place of that name (Judges 11:33). There is something unnatural, however, in Judah and Israel bringing an Ammonitish product to Tyre. It is their own productions that the nations bring, or at least the articles are assumed to be their own. LXX. renders "ointments;" and Corn, conjectures "spices" (Genesis 43:11; Isaiah 39:2; 2 Kings 20:13). The term "pannag" is otherwise unknown; R.V. marg. suggests a kind of confection (Targ.), while Corn, conjectures "wax" (donag). The "honey" referred to is no doubt that of bees, not grape honey. The "balm" mentioned, a product of Gilead (Jeremiah 8:22), and of Palestine (Genesis 43:11), was not the genuine balm, which was peculiar to Arabia, but an odoriferous resin (LXX. Vulg.) exuding from the mastix tree (Pistaccia lentiscus).