Ezekiel 27:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 25:4 : 4 And blue and purple and red, and the best linen, and goats' hair;
  • 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.
  • Gen 10:4 : 4 And the sons of Javan: Elishah and Tarshish, the Kittim and the Dodanim.
  • 1 Kgs 10:28 : 28 And Solomon's horses came from Egypt and from Kue; the king's traders got them at a price from Kue.
  • 1 Chr 1:7 : 7 And the sons of Javan: Elishah and Tarshish, Kittim and Rodanim.
  • Prov 7:16 : 16 My bed is covered with cushions of needlework, with coloured cloths of the cotton thread of Egypt;
  • Isa 19:9 : 9 And all the workers in linen thread, and those who make cotton cloth, will be put to shame.

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  • Ezek 27:18-27
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    83%

    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 27:15-16
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    81%

    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.

  • Ezek 27:2-6
    5 verses
    79%

    2And you, son of man, make a song of grief for Tyre;

    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.

  • Ezek 27:32-34
    3 verses
    79%

    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 27:8-10
    3 verses
    79%

    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.

  • Ezek 27:12-13
    2 verses
    76%

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

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

  • Prov 7:16
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    16My bed is covered with cushions of needlework, with coloured cloths of the cotton thread of Egypt;

  • Exod 28:5-6
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    5They are to take the gold and blue and purple and red and the best linen,

    6And make the ephod of gold and blue and purple and red and the best linen, the work of a designer.

  • Ezek 16:13
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    13So 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.

  • Ezek 16:10
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    10And I had you clothed with needlework, and put leather shoes on your feet, folding fair linen about you and covering you with silk.

  • Rev 18:12
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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;

  • Exod 26:31
    72%

    31And you are to make a veil of the best linen, blue and purple and red, worked with designs of winged ones by a good workman:

  • Ezek 26:16-18
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    16Then all the rulers of the sea will come down from their high seats, and put away their robes and take off their clothing of needlework: they will put on the clothing of grief, they will take their seats on the earth, shaking with fear every minute and overcome with wonder at you.

    17And they will send up a song of grief for you, and say to you, What destruction has come on you, how are you cut off from the sea, the noted town, which was strong in the sea, she and her people, causing the fear of them to come on all the dry land!

    18Now the sea-lands will be shaking in the day of your fall; and all the ships on the sea will be overcome with fear at your going.

  • 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;

  • Ezek 28:12
    71%

    12Son 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;

  • 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.

  • Exod 36:35
    71%

    35And he made the veil of the best linen, blue and purple and red, worked with winged ones designed by expert workmen.

  • 2 Chr 3:14
    70%

    14And he made the veil of blue and purple and red, of the best linen, worked with winged ones.

  • Exod 39:2-3
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    70%

    2The ephod he made of gold and blue and purple and red and the best linen;

    3Hammering the gold into thin plates and cutting it into wires to be worked into the blue and the purple and the red and the linen by the designer.

  • Exod 35:6
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    6And blue and purple and red and the best linen and goats' hair,

  • Exod 25:4
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    4And blue and purple and red, and the best linen, and goats' hair;

  • Isa 23:1-2
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    70%

    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;

  • Isa 23:8
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    8By whom was this purposed against Tyre, the crowning town, whose traders are chiefs, whose business men are honoured in the land?

  • Exod 26:1
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    1And you are to make a House for me, with ten curtains of the best linen, blue and purple and red, worked with designs of winged ones by a good workman.

  • Exod 39:29
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    29And a linen band worked with a design of blue and purple and red, as the Lord had said to Moses.

  • Exod 26:36
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    36And you are to make a curtain for the doorway of the Tent, of the best linen with needlework of blue and purple and red.