Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com | DownloadMatthew Poole Commentary - Ezekiel 27:15 - 27:15
(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)
This Chapter Verse Commentaries:
Dedan: see Eze_25:13. This Dedan was in Arabia, built by Dedan the son of Regina, not far from the Persian Gulf, and now called Daden, whence through the Red Sea they might convey their own merchandise.
Many isles, in the Indian Seas and in the Red Sea, traded with thee.
For a present; knowing how acceptable they were to get thy favour, they either made presents, and gave these things, or brought them to sell. Horns; elks’ horns, or wild goats’; some think it is meant of the unicorn, but the first is likeliest.
Ivory; ivory, not
of, the Hebrew is not in
regimen, but in
apposition, and should be read, They brought thee presents, horns, ivory, and ebony, which is a very solid, heavy, shining, and black wood, fit for many choice works.