“ ‘ “Judah and the land of Israel were your traders. They traded wheat of Minnith, confections, honey, oil, and balm for your merchandise.
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“ ‘ “Judah and the land of Israel were your traders. They traded wheat of Minnith, confections, honey, oil, and balm for your merchandise.
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Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm.
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Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy traffickers; they traded for thy merchandise wheat of Minnith, and balsam, and honey, and oil, and balm.
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Passages linked to Ezekiel 27:17 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Judges 11:33 He struck them from Aroer until you come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and to Abelcheramim, with a very great slaughter. So the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.
- 1 Kings 5:9 My servants will bring them down from Lebanon to the sea. I will make them into rafts to go by sea to the place that you specify to me, and will cause them to be broken up there, and you will receive them. You will accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.”
- Genesis 43:11 Their father, Israel, said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: Take from the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry down a present for the man, a little balm, a little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts, and almonds;
- Deuteronomy 8:8 a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive trees and honey;
- Deuteronomy 32:14 butter from the herd, and milk from the flock, with fat of lambs, rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the finest of the wheat. From the blood of the grape, you drank wine.
- 2 Chronicles 2:10 Behold, I will give to your servants, the cutters who cut timber, twenty thousand cors of beaten wheat, twenty thousand baths of barley, twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.”
- Ezra 3:7 They also gave money to the masons, and to the carpenters. They also gave food, drink, and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, according to the grant that they had from Cyrus King of Persia.
- Jeremiah 8:22 Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then isn’t the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
- Acts 12:20 Now Herod was very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon. They came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus, the king’s personal aide, their friend, they asked for peace, because their country depended on the king’s country for food.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Where the best wheat grew.
Where the best wheat grew.
Or, turpentine, or, treacle.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Eze 27:17 Judah, and the land of Israel, they…
Eze 27:17 Judah, and the land of Israel, they [were] thy merchants: they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm.
Ver. 17. Wheat of Minnith.] Where the best grew, even the kidneys of wheat, as Moses hath it. {Deu 32:14 cf. Jdg 11:33 Act 12:20}
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Pannag.] Rosin or balsam, whereof Judea yielded the best in the whole world.
For the wine of Helbon,] i.e., Of Aleppo, say some, famous then for wine, now for milk, whence also it hath its name, for the Turks call milk alep; and if the Via lactea Milky Way were on earth, it would be found there, saith one.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Judah; the two tribes, or kingdom of Judah.
Judah; the two tribes, or kingdom of Judah.
The land of Israel; the kingdom of Israel, or the ten tribes until their dispersion.
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Minnith; the name of some rich and excellent wheat country; it is mentioned in Jdg 11:33, on occasion of Jephthah’s slaying the Ammonites, as lying on their borders, and it is said there is a town of that name still in being about four miles from Esbus, (or Sabasant as now called,) in the way toward Philadelphia, formerly Rubbath.
Pannag: some doubt whether this be a proper name of any country or region, but if it is, they conclude it must be Phenicia, but do not tell us how Judah and Israel should trade their wheat in Tyre market; it may be it was some more obscure place, which now is forgotten. Honey; with which Canaan flowed.
Oil; in making and selling whereof the labour, care, and profit of that country did lie.
Balm; the choicest balms were those of Gilead, whence it is probable it was carried to Tyre; or it may be it was rosin, of which they had great use. The Chaldee paraphrast interprets it by the word that denotes wax, and so it may possibly be; a good commodity in Tyre.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the…
Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy making,.... Of the many things manufactured at Tyre, the inhabitants of Damascus, once the chief city of Syria, took some:
for the multitude of all riches: in lieu of the vast quantity of rich things there made, they traded with them for them:
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in the wine of Helbon, and white wool; Helbon very probably is the same with the Chalybon of Ptolemy (p), which he places in Syria; a place famous for wine, as Strabo (q) reports; the kings of Persia, he says, through riches fell into luxury, so that they would have wheat brought from Assos in Aeolia, and Chalybonian wine out of Syria, and water from Eulaeus (the river Ulai in Dan 8:2), which was lightest of all; and so Athenaeus (r) says, the kings of the Persians drink only Chalybonian wine; which, says Posidonius, was made at Damascus in Syria, from whence the Persians transplant vines: Helbon is thought to be the same with Aleppo; the grapes there are all white, and make a strong wine, as Monsieur Thevenot (s) relates; and who also observes, that the wines of Damascus are treacherous and strong: and the wool they bought was such as it came off of the backs of the sheep, and the purer and whiter sort of it; which was brought to Tyre, and by them bought, and dyed purple, for which dye the Tyrians were famous.
(p) Geograph. l. 5. c. 15. (q) Ibid. l. 12. p. 505. (r) L. 1. c. 22. (s) Travels, part 2. B. 1. c. 5. p. 25. & c. 7. p. 33.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Minnith - The name of an excellent wheat country.…
Minnith - The name of an excellent wheat country. Pannag - Some obscure place, which now is forgotten.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 17. Judah, and the land of Israel -…
Verse 17. Judah, and the land of Israel - traded in thy market wheat] The words have been understood as articles of merchandise, not names of places. So the Jews traded with the Tyrians in wheat, stacte, balsam, honey, oil, and resin.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Rosin. Our version generally renders this, balm. (Haydock) ---…
Rosin. Our version generally renders this, balm. (Haydock) --- It was much used to heal, Jeremias viii. 22., and Genesis xxxvii. 25.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Minnith . . . Pannag--names of places in Israel…
Minnith . . . Pannag--names of places in Israel famed for good wheat, wherewith Tyre was supplied (Kg1 5:9, Kg1 5:11; Ezr 3:7; Act 12:20); Minnith was formerly an Ammonite city (Jdg 11:33). "Pannag" is identified by GROTIUS with "Phenice," the Greek name for "Canaan." "They traded . . . wheat," that is, they supplied thy market with wheat.
balm--or, "balsam."
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 17. Minnith, and Pannag — The Minnith mentioned here…
17. Minnith, and Pannag — The Minnith mentioned here is probably not the Amorite town mentioned in Jdg_11:33 (vs. Bertholet, etc.), but may be the thing after which the town was named. (Compare note Eze_27:16.) What it was no one knows. The Syrian translates “millet;” LXX., “ointment,” while many scholars would suggest “spices,” because these are prominent in other lists of the productions of the land of Canaan. (Compare Gen_43:11.) It is possible that it was the technical name for a species of wheat — which was the greatest necessity supplied by Judah to Tyre (1Ki_5:9-11; Act_12:20). As R.V. suggests (margin), following the Mishna, pannag may be a species of confection, or Cornill may be right in reading donag (wax), but nothing is certain. The prophets did not like their countrymen to imitate the habits of the Canaanites (Old Hebrews, “traders”) in leaving the quiet simple life of agriculture for the more speculative, luxurious, and often dissolute career of the “traveling men” who were engaged in trade.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 17. Judah and the land of Israel furnished Tyre…
17. Judah and the land of Israel furnished Tyre with wheat, honey, oil and balsam.
traded in thy market wheat] they brought as thy wares wheat. Minnith is supposed to be the Ammonitish place of that name (Jdg_11:33). There is something unnatural, however, in Judah and Israel bringing an Ammonitish product to Tyre. It is their own productions that the nations bring, or at least the articles are assumed to be their own. LXX. renders “ointments;” and Corn, conjectures “spices” (Gen_43:11; Isa_39:2; 2Ki_20:13). The term “pannag” is otherwise unknown; R.V. marg. suggests a kind of confection (Targ.), while Corn, conjectures “wax” (donag). The “honey” referred to is no doubt that of bees, not grape honey. The “balm” mentioned, a product of Gilead (Jer_8:22), and of Palestine (Gen_43:11), was not the genuine balm, which was peculiar to Arabia, but an odoriferous resin (LXX. Vulg.) exuding from the mastix tree (Pistaccia lentiscus).
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (17) Minnith, and Pannag.—Minnith was in Ammon (Jdg_11:33), rich…
(17) Minnith, and Pannag.—Minnith was in Ammon (Jdg_11:33), rich in wheat (2Ch_27:5), and the Tyrians obtained its products through the Israelites. Pannag is unknown; it is even uncertain whether it is a proper name at all, or some sweet confection, as grape syrup.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Judah and the land of Israel. The narrow strip…
Judah and the land of Israel. The narrow strip of land occupied by the Phoenicians was unable to supply its crowded population. It was dependent on Israel for its corn and oil and the like in the days of Solomon (1Ki_5:9-11) and continued to be so to those of Herod Agrippa. (Act_12:20) Minnith appears in Jud_1:11:33 as a city of the Ammonites near Heshbon, and the region of Ammon was famous for its wheat. (2Ch_27:5) Minnith wheat probably fetched the highest price in the Tyrian markets. Pannag is found here only. The versions, Targum, LXX, give "ointments" (muroi), Vulgate, balsam. Most modern commentators take it as meaning sweetmeats, the syrup of grape-juice, possibly something like the modern rahat-la-koum of Turkish commerce. Possibly, like Minnith, it may have been a proper name the significance of which is lost to us. Honey was at all times one of the famous products of Palestine (Jud_1:14:8; 1Sa_14:27; Psa_19:10; Exo_33:3)
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 27:17 Minnith, located in Transjordan (the area east of…
27:17 Minnith, located in Transjordan (the area east of the Jordan River), was a well-known source of wheat.
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