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"Your merchants in choice items"

Text: Ezekiel 27:24

FAR-FLUNG OUTREACHES

Tyre had trading partners in far-flung places. It is amazing to note just how far Tyre was able to expand its trade.

“The merchants of Sheba and Raamah were your merchants.
They traded for your wares the choicest spices,
all kinds of precious stones, and gold.
Haran, Canneh, Eden, the merchants of
Sheba, Assyria, and Chilmad were your merchants.
These were your merchants in choice items—
in purple clothes, in embroidered garments,
in chests of multicoloured apparel,
in sturdy woven cords, which were in your marketplace.”
Ezekiel 27:22-24

1. Sheba

a) Technically, this is not a female name.

b) It simply means “oath”.

c) Sheba was the son of Raamah.

d) They came from the line of Cush, the son of Ham.

2. Raamah

a) Raamah was the father of Sheba.

b) Both father and son were merchants (trading partners) of Tyre.

c) They traded in the following things:

i) The choicest spices.

ii) All kinds of precious stones.

iii) And gold.

d) Tyre’s reach was extensive.

3. Haran, Canneh, Eden, the merchants of Sheba.

a) This was a different Sheba from the one named in the previous verse.

b) The three cities named were in Mesopotamia, the original home of Abraham.

c) They too were trading partners of Tyre.

4. Assyria and Chilmad

a) Assyria was an old trading partner of Tyre long before it became an empire.

b) Chilmad was an Assyrian city.

c) Both were mentioned as trading partners of Tyre.

d) They traded in choice items:

i) In purple clothes.

ii) In embroidered garments.

iii) In chests of multicoloured apparel.

iv) In sturdy woven cords.

e) These were traded in the cities of Assyria and Chilmad.