Ezekiel 27:15
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“The men of Dedan were your clients; many coastlands were your market; they paid you with ivory tusks and ebony.”
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“The men of Dedan were your clients; many coastlands were your market; they paid you with ivory tusks and ebony.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“The men of Dedan were thy merchants; many isles were the merchandise of thine hand: they brought thee for a present horns of ivory and ebony.”
King James Version · Public Domain“The men of Dedan were thy traffickers; many isles were the mart of thy hand: they brought thee in exchange horns of ivory and ebony.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Sons of Dedan <FI>are<Fi> thy merchants, Many isles <FI>are<Fi> the mart of thy hand, Horns of ivory and ebony they sent back thy reward.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Ezekiel 27:15 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 10:7The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
- Genesis 25:3Jokshan was the father of Sheba and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were the Asshurites, the Letushites, and the Leummites.
- 1 Kings 10:22For the king had the ships of Tarshish at sea with Hiram’s fleet, and once every three years the ships of Tarshish would arrive bearing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
- 1 Chronicles 1:9The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
- 1 Chronicles 1:32The sons born to Keturah, Abraham’s concubine: Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. The sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.
- 2 Chronicles 9:21For the king had the ships of Tarshish that went with Hiram’s servants, and once every three years the ships of Tarshish would arrive bearing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
- Jeremiah 25:23Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who cut the corners of their hair;
- Jeremiah 49:8Turn and run! Lie low, O dwellers of Dedan, for I will bring disaster on Esau at the time I punish him.
- Ezekiel 25:13therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I will stretch out My hand against Edom and cut off from it both man and beast. I will make it a wasteland, and from Teman to Dedan they will fall by the sword.
- Ezekiel 27:20Dedan was your merchant in saddlecloths for riding.
- Ezekiel 38:13Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish with all its villages will ask, ‘Have you come to capture the plunder? Have you assembled your hordes to carry away loot, to make off with silver and gold, to take cattle and goods, to seize great spoil?’
- Revelation 18:12cargo of gold, silver, precious stones, and pearls; of fine linen, purple, silk, and scarlet; of all kinds of citron wood and every article of ivory, precious wood, bronze, iron, and marble;
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