Commerce

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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• 1 Kings 22:49 OT

  Then Ahaziah the son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, “Let my servants go with your servants in the ships.” But Jehoshaphat would not.

• Ezekiel 28:2 OT

  “Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, ‘I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the middle of the seas;’ yet you are man, and not God, though you set your heart as…

• Ezekiel 28:16-18 OT

  By the abundance of your commerce, your insides were filled with violence, and you have sinned. Therefore I have cast you as profane out of God’s mountain. I have destroyed you, covering cherub, from the middle of the stones of fire. Your…

• Proverbs 20:14 OT

  “It’s no good, it’s no good,” says the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.

• Ezekiel 22:13 OT

  “ ‘ “Behold, therefore I have struck my hand at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at your blood which has been within you.

• Hosea 12:7 OT

  A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.

• Isaiah 23:11 OT

  He has stretched out his hand over the sea. He has shaken the kingdoms. Yahweh has ordered the destruction of Canaan’s strongholds.

• Ezekiel 7:12 OT

  The time has come! The day draws near. Don’t let the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for wrath is on all its multitude.

• Ezekiel 7:13 OT

  For the seller won’t return to that which is sold, although they are still alive; for the vision concerns the whole multitude of it. None will return. None will strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.

• Ezekiel 27:32-36 OT

  In their wailing they will take up a lamentation for you, and lament over you, saying, ‘Who is there like Tyre, like her who is brought to silence in the middle of the sea?’ When your wares went out of the seas, you filled many peoples.…

• Ezekiel 27:24 OT

  These were your traders in choice wares, in wrappings of blue and embroidered work, and in chests of rich clothing, bound with cords and made of cedar, among your merchandise.

• Ezekiel 27:13 OT

  “ ‘ “Javan, Tubal, and Meshech were your traders. They traded the persons of men and vessels of bronze for your merchandise.

• Ezekiel 27:21 OT

  “ ‘ “Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar were the merchants of your hand; in lambs, rams, and goats. In these, they were your merchants.

• Ezekiel 27:20 OT

  “ ‘ “Dedan was your trafficker in precious cloths for riding.

• Ezekiel 27:14 OT

  “ ‘ “They of the house of Togarmah traded for your wares with horses, war horses, and mules.

• Ezekiel 27:15 OT

  “ ‘ “The men of Dedan traded with you. Many islands were the market of your hand. They brought you horns of ivory and ebony in exchange.

• Genesis 23:13-16 OT

  He spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, “But if you will, please hear me. I will give the price of the field. Take it from me, and I will bury my dead there.” Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him, “My lord,…

• Ruth 4:3 OT

  He said to the near kinsman, “Naomi, who has come back out of the country of Moab, is selling the parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech’s.

• Song of Solomon 3:6 OT

  Who is this who comes up from the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all spices of the merchant?

• Ezekiel 27:22 OT

  “ ‘ “The traders of Sheba and Raamah were your traders. They traded for your wares with the chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold.

• Genesis 37:36 OT

  The Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard.

• Deuteronomy 24:7 OT

  If a man is found stealing any of his brothers of the children of Israel, and he deals with him as a slave, or sells him, then that thief shall die. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

• 1 Kings 5:6 OT

  Now therefore command that cedar trees be cut for me out of Lebanon. My servants will be with your servants; and I will give you wages for your servants according to all that you say. For you know that there is nobody among us who knows…

• 2 Chronicles 2:15 OT

  “Now therefore the wheat, the barley, the oil, and the wine, which my lord has spoken of, let him send to his servants;