Ezekiel 27:12
“‘Tarshish was your trade partner because of your abundant wealth; they exchanged silver, iron, tin, and lead for your products.
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Referenced Verses
- Gen 10:4 : 4 The sons of Javan were Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittim, and the Dodanim.
- 1 Kgs 10:22 : 22 Along with Hiram’s fleet, the king had a fleet of large merchant ships that sailed the sea. Once every three years the fleet came into port with cargoes of gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
- Isa 23:10 : 10 Daughter Tarshish, travel back to your land, as one crosses the Nile; there is no longer any marketplace in Tyre.
- Ezek 38:13 : 13 Sheba and Dedan and the traders of Tarshish with all its young warriors will say to you,“Have you come to loot? Have you assembled your armies to plunder, to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to haul away a great amount of spoils?”’
- Jonah 1:3 : 3 Instead, Jonah immediately headed off to Tarshish to escape from the commission of the LORD. He traveled to Joppa and found a merchant ship heading to Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went aboard it to go with them to Tarshish far away from the LORD.
- Isa 23:14 : 14 Wail, you large ships, for your fortress is destroyed!
- Isa 60:9 : 9 Indeed, the coastlands look eagerly for me, the large ships are in the lead, bringing your sons from far away, along with their silver and gold, to honor the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, for he has bestowed honor on you.
- Jer 10:9 : 9 Hammered-out silver is brought from Tarshish and gold is brought from Ufaz to cover those idols. They are the handiwork of carpenters and goldsmiths. They are clothed in blue and purple clothes. They are all made by skillful workers.
- Ezek 27:16 : 16 Edom was your trade partner because of the abundance of your goods; they exchanged turquoise, purple, embroidered work, fine linen, coral, and rubies for your products.
- Ezek 27:18 : 18 Damascus was your trade partner because of the abundance of your goods and of all your wealth: wine from Helbon, white wool from Zahar,
- 1 Kgs 22:48 : 48 Jehoshaphat built a fleet of large merchant ships to travel to Ophir for gold, but they never made the voyage because they were shipwrecked in Ezion Geber.
- 2 Chr 20:36-37 : 36 They agreed to make large seagoing merchant ships; they built the ships in Ezion Geber. 37 Eliezer son of Dodavahu from Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat,“Because you made an alliance with Ahaziah, the LORD will shatter what you have made.” The ships were wrecked and unable to go to sea.
- Ps 72:10 : 10 The kings of Tarshish and the coastlands will offer gifts; the kings of Sheba and Seba will bring tribute.
- Isa 2:16 : 16 for all the large ships, for all the impressive ships.
- Isa 23:6 : 6 Travel to Tarshish! Wail, you residents of the coast!
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- Ezek 27:13-2715 verses88%
13 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech were your clients; they exchanged slaves and bronze items for your merchandise.
14 Beth Togarmah exchanged horses, chargers, and mules for your products.
15 The Dedanites were your clients. Many coastlands were your customers; they paid you with ivory tusks and ebony.
16 Edom was your trade partner because of the abundance of your goods; they exchanged turquoise, purple, embroidered work, fine linen, coral, and rubies for your products.
17 Judah and the land of Israel were your clients; they traded wheat from Minnith, millet, honey, olive oil, and balm for your merchandise.
18 Damascus was your trade partner because of the abundance of your goods and of all your wealth: wine from Helbon, white wool from Zahar,
19 and casks of wine from Izal they exchanged for your products. Wrought iron, cassia, and sweet cane were among your merchandise.
20 Dedan was your client in saddlecloths for riding.
21 Arabia and all the princes of Kedar were your trade partners; for lambs, rams, and goats they traded with you.
22 The merchants of Sheba and Raamah engaged in trade with you; they traded the best kinds of spices along with precious stones and gold for your products.
23 Haran, Kanneh, Eden, merchants from Sheba, Asshur, and Kilmad were your clients.
24 They traded with you choice garments, purple clothes and embroidered work, and multicolored carpets, bound and reinforced with cords; these were among your merchandise.
25 The ships of Tarshish were the transports for your merchandise.“‘So you were filled and weighed down in the heart of the seas.
26 Your rowers have brought you into surging waters. The east wind has wrecked you in the heart of the seas.
27 Your wealth, products, and merchandise, your sailors and captains, your ship’s carpenters, your merchants, and all your fighting men within you, along with all your crew who are in you, will fall into the heart of the seas on the day of your downfall.
- Ezek 27:32-343 verses84%
32 As they wail they will lament over you, chanting:“Who was like Tyre, like a tower in the midst of the sea?”
33 When your products went out from the seas, you satisfied many peoples; with the abundance of your wealth and merchandise you enriched the kings of the earth.
34 Now you are wrecked by the seas, in the depths of the waters; your merchandise and all your company have sunk along with you.
- Ezek 27:3-119 verses79%
3 Say to Tyre, who sits at the entrance of the sea, merchant to the peoples on many coasts,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says:“‘O Tyre, you have said,“I am perfectly beautiful.”
4 Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders have perfected your beauty.
5 They crafted all your planks out of fir trees from Senir; they took a cedar from Lebanon to make your mast.
6 They made your oars from oaks of Bashan; they made your deck with cypress wood from the coasts of Cyprus.
7 Fine linen from Egypt, woven with patterns, was used for your sail to serve as your banner; blue and purple from the coastlands of Elishah was used for your deck’s awning.
8 The leaders of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers; your skilled men, O Tyre, were your captains.
9 The elders of Gebal and her skilled men were within you, mending cracks; all the ships of the sea and their mariners were within you to trade for your merchandise.
10 Men of Persia, Lud, and Put were in your army, men of war. They hung shield and helmet on you; they gave you your splendor.
11 The Arvadites joined your army on your walls all around, and the Gammadites were in your towers. They hung their quivers on your walls all around; they perfected your beauty.
- Rev 18:12-132 verses78%
12 cargo such as gold, silver, precious stones, pearls, fine linen, purple cloth, silk, scarlet cloth, all sorts of things made of citron wood, all sorts of objects made of ivory, all sorts of things made of expensive wood, bronze, iron and marble,
13 cinnamon, spice, incense, perfumed ointment, frankincense, wine, olive oil and costly flour, wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and four-wheeled carriages, slaves and human lives.
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9 Hammered-out silver is brought from Tarshish and gold is brought from Ufaz to cover those idols. They are the handiwork of carpenters and goldsmiths. They are clothed in blue and purple clothes. They are all made by skillful workers.
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13 Sheba and Dedan and the traders of Tarshish with all its young warriors will say to you,“Have you come to loot? Have you assembled your armies to plunder, to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to haul away a great amount of spoils?”’
- Isa 23:6-83 verses75%
6 Travel to Tarshish! Wail, you residents of the coast!
7 Is this really your boisterous city whose origins are in the distant past, and whose feet led her to a distant land to reside?
8 Who planned this for royal Tyre, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the dignitaries of the earth?
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9 Indeed, the coastlands look eagerly for me, the large ships are in the lead, bringing your sons from far away, along with their silver and gold, to honor the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, for he has bestowed honor on you.
- Ezek 28:4-52 verses74%
4 By your wisdom and understanding you have gained wealth for yourself; you have amassed gold and silver in your treasuries.
5 By your great skill in trade you have increased your wealth, and your heart is proud because of your wealth.
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5 For you took my silver and my gold and brought my precious valuables to your own palaces.
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22 Along with Hiram’s fleet, the king had a fleet of large merchant ships that sailed the sea. Once every three years the fleet came into port with cargoes of gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
- Isa 23:1-22 verses73%
1 The Lord Will Judge Tyre This is an oracle about Tyre: Wail, you large ships, for the port is too devastated to enter! From the land of Cyprus this news is announced to them.
2 Lament, you residents of the coast, you merchants of Sidon who travel over the sea, whose agents sail over
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3 Tyre built herself a fortification and piled up silver like dust and gold like the mud of the streets!
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14 Wail, you large ships, for your fortress is destroyed!
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15 They will disappoint you, those you have so faithfully dealt with since your youth. Each strays off in his own direction, leaving no one to rescue you.”
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10 Daughter Tarshish, travel back to your land, as one crosses the Nile; there is no longer any marketplace in Tyre.
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21 The king had a fleet of large merchant ships manned by Huram’s men that sailed the sea. Once every three years the fleet came into port with cargoes of gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
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15 The merchants who sold these things, who got rich from her, will stand a long way off because they are afraid of her torment. They will weep and mourn,
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22 all the kings of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon; all the kings of the coastlands along the sea;
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16 for all the large ships, for all the impressive ships.
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12 They will steal your wealth and loot your merchandise. They will tear down your walls and destroy your luxurious homes. Your stones, your trees, and your soil he will throw into the water.