Show Bible Commentary For A Bible Verse

Click here to show/hide instructions.

Selected Verse: Ezekiel 27:6 - King James

Verse         Translation Text
Eze 27:6 King James Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; the company of the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of Chittim.

Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse

Open All | Close All Open All | Close All
 
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
Bashan--celebrated for its oaks, as Lebanon was for its cedars.

the company of . . . Ashurites--the most skilful workmen summoned from Assyria. Rather, as the Hebrew orthography requires, "They have made thy (rowing) benches of ivory inlaid in the daughter of cedars" [MAURER], or, the best boxwood. FAIRBAIRN, with BOCHART, reads the Hebrew two words as one: "Thy plankwork (deck: instead of 'benches,' as the Hebrew is singular) they made ivory with boxes." English Version, with MAURER'S correction, is simpler.

Chittim--Cyprus and Macedonia, from which, PLINY tells us, the best boxwood came [GROTIUS].
 
Top
5 By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.