Ezekiel 27:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Tarshish did business with you because of the great amount of your wealth; they gave silver, iron, tin, and lead for your goods.

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  • Gen 10:4 : 4 And the sons of Javan: Elishah and Tarshish, the Kittim and the Dodanim.
  • 1 Kgs 10:22 : 22 For the king had Tarshish-ships at sea with the ships of Hiram; once every three years the Tarshish-ships came with gold and silver and ivory and monkeys and peacocks.
  • Isa 23:10 : 10 Let your land be worked with the plough, O daughter of Tarshish; there is no longer any harbour.
  • Ezek 38:13 : 13 Sheba, and Dedan and her traders, Tarshish with all her traders, will say to you, Have you come to take our goods? have you got your armies together to take away our property by force? to take away silver and gold, cattle and goods, to go off with great wealth?
  • Jonah 1:3 : 3 And Jonah got up to go in flight to Tarshish, away from the Lord; and he went down to Joppa, and saw there a ship going to Tarshish: so he gave them the price of the journey and went down into it to go with them to Tarshish, away from the Lord.
  • Isa 23:14 : 14 Let a cry of sorrow go up, O ships of Tarshish: because your strong place is made waste.
  • Isa 60:9 : 9 Vessels of the sea-lands are waiting for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, so that your sons may come from far, and their silver and gold with them, to the place of the name of the Lord your God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he has made you beautiful.
  • Jer 10:9 : 9 Silver hammered into plates is sent from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the expert workman and of the hands of the gold-worker; blue and purple is their clothing, all the work of expert men.
  • Ezek 27:16 : 16 Edom did business with you because of the great number of things which you made; they gave emeralds, purple, and needlework, and the best linen and coral and rubies for your goods.
  • Ezek 27:18 : 18 Damascus did business with you because of the great amount of your wealth, with wine of Helbon and white wool.
  • 1 Kgs 22:48 : 48 And the representative of King Jehoshaphat made a Tarshish-ship to go to Ophir for gold, but it did not go, because it was broken at Ezion-geber.
  • 2 Chr 20:36-37 : 36 Together they made ships to go to Tarshish, building them in Ezion-geber. 37 Then the word of Eliezer the prophet, the son of Dodavahu of Mareshah, came against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because you have let yourself be joined with Ahaziah, the Lord has sent destruction on your works. And the ships were broken and were not able to go to Tarshish.
  • Ps 72:10 : 10 Let the kings of Tarshish and of the islands come back with offerings; let the kings of Sheba and Seba give of their stores.
  • Isa 2:16 : 16 And on all the ships of Tarshish, and on all the fair boats.
  • Isa 23:6 : 6 Go over to Tarshish; give cries of sorrow, O men of the sea-land.

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  • Ezek 27:13-27
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    88%

    13Javan, Tubal, and Meshech were your traders; they gave living men and brass vessels for your goods.

    14The people of Togarmah gave horses and war-horses and transport beasts for your goods.

    15The men of Rodan were your traders: a great number of sea-lands did business with you: they gave you horns of ivory and ebony as an offering.

    16Edom did business with you because of the great number of things which you made; they gave emeralds, purple, and needlework, and the best linen and coral and rubies for your goods.

    17Judah and the land of Israel were your traders; they gave grain of Minnith and sweet cakes and honey and oil and perfume for your goods.

    18Damascus did business with you because of the great amount of your wealth, with wine of Helbon and white wool.

    19... for your goods: they gave polished iron and spices for your goods.

    20Dedan did trade with you in cloths for the backs of horses.

    21Arabia and all the rulers of Kedar did business with you; in lambs and sheep and goats, in these they did business with you.

    22The traders of Sheba and Raamah did trade with you; they gave the best of all sorts of spices and all sorts of stones of great price and gold for your goods.

    23Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traders of Asshur and all the Medes:

    24These were your traders in beautiful robes, in rolls of blue and needlework, and in chests of coloured cloth, corded with cords and made of cedar-wood, in them they did trade with you.

    25Tarshish ships did business for you in your goods: and you were made full, and great was your glory in the heart of the seas.

    26Your boatmen have taken you into great waters: you have been broken by the east wind in the heart of the seas.

    27Your wealth and your goods, the things in which you do trade, your seamen and those guiding your ships, those who make your boards watertight, and those who do business with your goods, and all your men of war who are in you, with all who have come together in you, will go down into the heart of the seas in the day of your downfall.

  • Ezek 27:32-34
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    32And in their weeping they will make a song of grief for you, sorrowing over you and saying, Who is like Tyre, who has come to an end in the deep sea?

    33When your goods went out over the seas, you made numbers of peoples full; the wealth of the kings of the earth was increased with your great wealth and all your goods.

    34Now that you are broken by the seas in the deep waters, your goods and all your people will go down with you.

  • Ezek 27:3-11
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    3And say to Tyre, O you who are seated at the doorway of the sea, trading for the peoples with the great sea-lands, these are the words of the Lord: You, O Tyre, have said, I am a ship completely beautiful.

    4Your builders have made your outlines in the heart of the seas, they have made you completely beautiful.

    5They have made all your boards of fir-trees from Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make the supports for your sails.

    6Of oak-trees from Bashan they have made your driving blades; they have made your floors of ivory and boxwood from the sea-lands of Kittim.

    7The best linen with needlework from Egypt was your sail, stretched out to be a flag for you; blue and purple from the sea-lands of Elishah gave you shade.

    8The people of Zidon and Arvad were your boatmen; the wise men of Zemer were in you; they were guiding your ships;

    9The responsible men of Gebal and its wise men were in you, making your boards watertight: all the ships of the sea with their seamen were in you trading in your goods.

    10Cush and Lud and Put were in your army, your men of war, hanging up their body-covers and head-dresses of war in you: they gave you your glory.

    11The men of Arvad in your army were on your walls, and were watchmen in your towers, hanging up their arms on your walls round about; they made you completely beautiful.

  • Rev 18:12-13
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    12Gold, and silver, and stones of great price, and jewels, and delicate linen, and robes of purple and silk and red; and perfumed wood, and every vessel of ivory, and every vessel made of fair wood, and of brass, and iron, and stone;

    13And sweet-smelling plants, and perfumes, and wine, and oil, and well crushed grain, and cattle and sheep; and horses and carriages and servants; and souls of men.

  • Jer 10:9
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    9Silver hammered into plates is sent from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the expert workman and of the hands of the gold-worker; blue and purple is their clothing, all the work of expert men.

  • Ezek 38:13
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    13Sheba, and Dedan and her traders, Tarshish with all her traders, will say to you, Have you come to take our goods? have you got your armies together to take away our property by force? to take away silver and gold, cattle and goods, to go off with great wealth?

  • Isa 23:6-8
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    6Go over to Tarshish; give cries of sorrow, O men of the sea-land.

    7Is this the town which was full of joy, whose start goes back to times long past, whose wanderings took her into far-off countries?

    8By whom was this purposed against Tyre, the crowning town, whose traders are chiefs, whose business men are honoured in the land?

  • Isa 60:9
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    9Vessels of the sea-lands are waiting for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, so that your sons may come from far, and their silver and gold with them, to the place of the name of the Lord your God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he has made you beautiful.

  • Ezek 28:4-5
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    4By your wisdom and deep knowledge you have got power for yourself, and put silver and gold in your store-houses:

    5By your great wisdom and by your trade your power is increased, and your heart is lifted up because of your power:

  • Joel 3:5
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    5And it will be that whoever makes his prayer to the name of the Lord will be kept safe: for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem some will be kept safe, as the Lord has said, and will be among the small band marked out by the Lord.

  • 1 Kgs 10:22
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    22For the king had Tarshish-ships at sea with the ships of Hiram; once every three years the Tarshish-ships came with gold and silver and ivory and monkeys and peacocks.

  • Isa 23:1-2
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    1The word about Tyre. Let a cry of sorrow go up, O ships of Tarshish, because your strong place is made waste; on the way back from the land of Kittim the news is given to them.

    2Send out a cry of grief, you men of the sea-land, traders of Zidon, who go over the sea, whose representatives are on great waters;

  • Zech 9:3
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    3And Tyre made for herself a strong place, and got together silver like dust and the best gold like the earth of the streets.

  • Isa 23:14
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    14Let a cry of sorrow go up, O ships of Tarshish: because your strong place is made waste.

  • Isa 47:15
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    15Small profit have you had from those who, from your earliest days, got great profit out of you; they have gone in flight, every one straight before him, and you have no saviour.

  • Isa 23:10
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    10Let your land be worked with the plough, O daughter of Tarshish; there is no longer any harbour.

  • 2 Chr 9:21
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    21For the king had Tarshish-ships sailing with the servants of Huram: once every three years the Tarshish-ships came back with gold and silver, ivory and monkeys and peacocks.

  • Rev 18:15
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    15The traders in these things, by which their wealth was increased, will be watching far off for fear of her punishment, weeping and crying;

  • Jer 25:22
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    22And all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the lands across the sea;

  • Isa 2:16
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    16And on all the ships of Tarshish, and on all the fair boats.

  • Ezek 26:12
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    12They will take by force all your wealth and go off with the goods with which you do trade: they will have your walls broken down and all the houses of your desire given up to destruction: they will put your stones and your wood and your dust deep in the water.