Ezekiel 27:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Judg 10:6 : 6 And again the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord, worshipping the Baals and Astartes, and the gods of Aram and the gods of Zidon and the gods of Moab and the gods of the children of Ammon and the gods of the Philistines; they gave up the Lord and were servants to him no longer.
  • Ezek 28:13 : 13 You were in Eden, the garden of God; every stone of great price was your clothing, the sardius, the topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the emerald and the carbuncle: your store-houses were full of gold, and things of great price were in you; in the day when you were made they were got ready.
  • Gen 10:22 : 22 These are the sons of Shem: Elam and Asshur and Arpachshad and Lud and Aram.
  • Gen 28:5 : 5 So Isaac sent Jacob away: and he went to Paddan-aram, to Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramaean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.
  • 2 Sam 8:5 : 5 And when the Aramaeans of Damascus came to the help of Hadadezer, king of Zobah, David put to the sword twenty-two thousand of the Aramaeans.
  • 2 Sam 10:6 : 6 And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves hated by David, they sent to the Aramaeans of Beth-rehob and Zobah, and got for payment twenty thousand footmen, and they got from the king of Maacah a thousand men, and from Tob twelve thousand.
  • 2 Sam 15:8 : 8 For while I was living in Geshur in Aram, your servant made an oath, saying, If ever the Lord lets me come back to Jerusalem, I will give him worship in Hebron.
  • Isa 7:1-8 : 1 Now it came about in the days of Ahaz, the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin, the king of Aram, and Pekah, the son of Remaliah, the king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem to make war against it, but were not able to overcome it. 2 And word came to the family of David that Aram had put up its tents in Ephraim. And the king's heart, and the hearts of his people, were moved, like the trees of the wood shaking in the wind. 3 Then the Lord said to Isaiah, Go out now, you and Shear-jashub, your son, and you will come across Ahaz at the end of the stream flowing from the higher pool, in the highway of the washerman's field; 4 And say to him, Take care and be quiet; have no fear, and do not let your heart be feeble, because of these two ends of smoking fire-wood, because of the bitter wrath of Rezin and Aram, and of the son of Remaliah. 5 Because Aram has made evil designs against you, saying, 6 Let us go up against Judah, troubling her, and forcing our way into her, and let us put up a king in her, even the son of Tabeel: 7 This is the word of the Lord God: This design will not come about or be effected. 8 For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin (and in sixty-five years from now Ephraim will be broken, and will no longer be a people):

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  • Ezek 27:17-27
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    17 Judah 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.

    18 Damascus 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.

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

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

    22 The 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.

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

    24 These 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.

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

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

    27 Your 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 27:2-15
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    2 And you, son of man, make a song of grief for Tyre;

    3 And 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.

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

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

    6 Of 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.

    7 The 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.

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

    9 The 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.

    10 Cush 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.

    11 The 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.

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

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

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

    15 The 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.

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    32 And 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?

    33 When 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.

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

  • Rev 18:11-16
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    11 And the traders of the earth are weeping and crying over her, because no man has any more desire for their goods,

    12 Gold, 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;

    13 And 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.

    14 And the fruit of your soul's desire has gone from you, and all things delicate and shining have come to an end and will never again be seen.

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

    16 Saying, Sorrow, sorrow for the great town, she who was clothed in delicate linen, and purple, and red; with ornaments of gold and stones of great price and jewels!

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    10 And I had you clothed with needlework, and put leather shoes on your feet, folding fair linen about you and covering you with silk.

    11 And I made you fair with ornaments and put jewels on your hands and a chain on your neck.

    12 And I put a ring in your nose and ear-rings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head.

    13 So you were made beautiful with gold and silver; and your clothing was of the best linen and silk and needlework; your food was the best meal and honey and oil: and you were very beautiful.

    14 You were so beautiful that the story of you went out into all nations; you were completely beautiful because of my glory which I had put on you, says the Lord.

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    12 Son of man, make a song of grief for the king of Tyre, and say to him, This is what the Lord has said: You are all-wise and completely beautiful;

    13 You were in Eden, the garden of God; every stone of great price was your clothing, the sardius, the topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the emerald and the carbuncle: your store-houses were full of gold, and things of great price were in you; in the day when you were made they were got ready.

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

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

  • 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.

  • 5 And 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.

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    16 And you took your robes and made high places for yourself ornamented with every colour, acting like a loose woman on them, without shame or fear.

    17 And you took the fair jewels, my silver and gold which I had given to you, and made for yourself male images, acting like a loose woman with them;

    18 And you took your robes of needlework for their clothing, and put my oil and my perfume before them.

  • 18 And her goods and her trade will be holy to the Lord: they will not be kept back or stored up; for her produce will be for those living in the Lord's land, to give them food for their needs, and fair clothing.

  • 18 By all your sin, even by your evil trading, you have made your holy places unclean; so I will make a fire come out from you, it will make a meal of you, and I will make you as dust on the earth before the eyes of all who see you.