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class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/bsb/ezekiel/27.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#001320" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/niv/ezekiel/27.htm">New International Version</a></span><br />&#8220&#8217Harran, Kanneh and Eden and merchants of Sheba, Ashur and Kilmad traded with you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/ezekiel/27.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />“Haran, Canneh, Eden, Sheba, Asshur, and Kilmad came with their merchandise, too.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/ezekiel/27.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />Haran, Canneh, Eden, traders of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad traded with you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/ezekiel/27.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />Haran, Canneh, and Eden traded with you, and so did the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/ezekiel/27.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, <i>and</i> Chilmad, <i>were</i> thy merchants.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/ezekiel/27.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />Haran, Canneh, Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Assyria, <i>and</i> Chilmad <i>were</i> your merchants.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/ezekiel/27.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />Haran, Canneh, Eden, the traders of Sheba, Asshur, <i>and</i> Chilmad traded with you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/ezekiel/27.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8220Haran, Canneh, Eden, the traders of Sheba, Asshur and Chilmad traded with you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/ezekiel/27.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />“Haran, Canneh, Eden, the traders of Sheba, Asshur, <i>and</i> Chilmad traded with you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/ezekiel/27.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />Haran, Canneh, Eden, the traders of Sheba, Asshur, <i>and</i> Chilmad traded with you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/ezekiel/27.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />Haran and Canneh and Eden [in Mesopotamia], the merchants of Sheba [on the Euphrates], Asshur and Chilmad traded with you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/ezekiel/27.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Haran, Canneh, Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad traded with you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/ezekiel/27.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Haran, Canneh, Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad traded with you. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/ezekiel/27.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traffickers of Sheba, Asshur and Chilmad, were thy traffickers.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/ezekiel/27.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />You also did business with merchants from the cities of Haran, Canneh, Eden, Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/ezekiel/27.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traffickers of Sheba, Asshur and Chilmad were they traffickers.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/ezekiel/27.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />Haran, Canneh, Eden, the merchants from Sheba, Assyria, and Kilmad traded with you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/ezekiel/27.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />The cities of Haran, Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, the cities of Asshur and Chilmad--they all traded with you. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/ezekiel/27.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />Haran, Canneh, Eden, merchants from Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad did business with you, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/ezekiel/27.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />Haran, Canneh, and Eden traded with you, and so did the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/ezekiel/27.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />Haran, Kanneh, Eden, merchants from Sheba, Asshur, and Kilmad were your clients.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/ezekiel/27.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traffickers of Sheba, Asshur and Chilmad, were your traffickers.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/ezekiel/27.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad, were thy merchants.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/ezekiel/27.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />“‘“Haran, Canneh, Eden, the traders of Sheba, Asshur and Chilmad, were your traders. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/ezekiel/27.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, merchants of Sheba, Asshur—Chilmad—[are] your merchants,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/ezekiel/27.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, merchants of Sheba, Asshur -- Chilmad -- are thy merchants,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/ezekiel/27.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />Haran and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Assur, and Chilmad, thy merchants.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/ezekiel/27.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Haran, and Chene, and Eden were thy merchants; Saba, Assur, and Chelmad sold to thee. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/ezekiel/27.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />Haran, and Canneh, and Eden were your merchants. Sheba, Assur, and Chilmad were your sellers.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/ezekiel/27.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Haran, Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/ezekiel/27.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Haran, Canneh, Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad traded with you.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/ezekiel/27.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />Haran and Canneh and Eden, the merchants of Sheba and Assyria, were your merchants.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/ezekiel/27.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />Kharan and Caneh and Eden, the Merchants of Sheba and Assyria were in the place of your trade<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/ezekiel/27.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traffickers of Sheba, Asshur was as thine apprentice in traffic.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/ezekiel/27.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />Charra, and Chanaa, these were thy merchants: Assur, and Charman, were thy merchants:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/ezekiel/27-23.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vET3Gmwku4s?start=7863" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/ezekiel/27.htm">A Lament for Tyre</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">22</span>The merchants of Sheba and Raamah traded with you; for your wares they exchanged gold, the finest of all spices, and precious stones. <span class="reftext">23</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/2771.htm" title="2771: ḥā·rān (N-proper-fs) -- Haran -- crossroads, a city in northern Mesopotamia. From charar; parched; Charan, the name of a man and also of a place.">Haran,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3656.htm" title="3656: wə·ḵan·nêh (Conj-w:: N-proper-fs) -- Probably a place in Bab. For Kalneh; Canneh, a place in Assyria.">Canneh,</a> <a href="/hebrew/5729.htm" title="5729: wā·‘e·ḏen (Conj-w:: N-proper-fs) -- A territory conquered by Assyr. From adan; pleasure; Eden, a place in Mesopotamia.">and Eden</a> <a href="/hebrew/7402.htm" title="7402: rō·ḵal·têḵ (V-Qal-Prtcpl-fsc:: 2fs) -- Probably to go about. A primitive root; to travel for trading.">traded with you,</a> <a href="/hebrew/7402.htm" title="7402: rō·ḵə·lê (V-Qal-Prtcpl-mpc) -- Probably to go about. A primitive root; to travel for trading.">and so did the merchants</a> <a href="/hebrew/7614.htm" title="7614: šə·ḇā (N-proper-ms) -- Of foreign origin; Sheba, the name of three early progenitors of tribes and of an Ethiopian district.">of Sheba,</a> <a href="/hebrew/804.htm" title="804: ’aš·šūr (N-proper-fs) -- Ashshur, the second son of Shem; also his descendants and the country occupied by them, its region and its empire.">Asshur,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3638.htm" title="3638: kil·maḏ (N-proper-fs) -- A place of unc. location. Of foreign derivation; Kilmad, a place apparently in the Assyrian empire.">and Chilmad.</a> </span><span class="reftext">24</span>In your marketplace they traded with you fine garments of blue, embroidered work, and multicolored rugs with cords tightly twisted and knotted.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/18-11.htm">Revelation 18:11-13</a></span><br />And the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her, because there is no one left to buy their cargo— / cargo of gold, silver, precious stones, and pearls; of fine linen, purple, silk, and scarlet; of all kinds of citron wood and every article of ivory, precious wood, bronze, iron, and marble; / of cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, and frankincense; of wine, olive oil, fine flour, and wheat; of cattle, sheep, horses, and carriages; of bodies and souls of slaves.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/23-8.htm">Isaiah 23:8</a></span><br />Who planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose traders are princes, whose merchants are renowned on the earth?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/25-24.htm">Jeremiah 25:24</a></span><br />all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mixed tribes who dwell in the desert;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_kings/10-15.htm">1 Kings 10:15</a></span><br />not including the revenue from the merchants, traders, and all the Arabian kings and governors of the land.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/47-15.htm">Isaiah 47:15</a></span><br />This is what they are to you—those with whom you have labored and traded from youth—each one strays in his own direction; not one of them can save you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/18-15.htm">Revelation 18:15-17</a></span><br />The merchants who sold these things and gained their wealth from her will stand at a distance, in fear of her torment. They will weep and mourn, / saying: “Woe, woe to the great city, clothed in fine linen and purple and scarlet, adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls! / For in a single hour such fabulous wealth has been destroyed!” Every shipmaster, passenger, and sailor, and all who make their living from the sea, will stand at a distance<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/13-20.htm">Isaiah 13:20</a></span><br />She will never be inhabited or settled from generation to generation; no nomad will pitch his tent there, no shepherd will rest his flock there.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/50-37.htm">Jeremiah 50:37</a></span><br />A sword is against her horses and chariots and against all the foreigners in her midst, and they will become like women. A sword is against her treasuries, and they will be plundered.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/18-3.htm">Revelation 18:3</a></span><br />All the nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her immorality. The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown wealthy from the extravagance of her luxury.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/21-13.htm">Isaiah 21:13</a></span><br />This is the burden against Arabia: In the thickets of Arabia you must lodge, O caravans of Dedanites.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/49-7.htm">Jeremiah 49:7</a></span><br />Concerning Edom, this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Is there no longer wisdom in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom decayed?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/38-13.htm">Ezekiel 38:13</a></span><br />Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish with all its villages will ask, ‘Have you come to capture the plunder? Have you assembled your hordes to carry away loot, to make off with silver and gold, to take cattle and goods, to seize great spoil?’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/60-6.htm">Isaiah 60:6</a></span><br />Caravans of camels will cover your land, young camels of Midian and Ephah, and all from Sheba will come, bearing gold and frankincense and proclaiming the praises of the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/9-26.htm">Jeremiah 9:26</a></span><br />Egypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, Moab, and all the inhabitants of the desert who clip the hair of their temples. For all these nations are uncircumcised, and the whole house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/18-19.htm">Revelation 18:19</a></span><br />Then they will throw dust on their heads as they weep and mourn and cry out: “Woe, woe to the great city, where all who had ships on the sea were enriched by her wealth! For in a single hour she has been destroyed.”</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad, were your merchants.</p><p class="hdg">Haran</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/genesis/11-31.htm">Genesis 11:31,32</a></b></br> And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/genesis/12-4.htm">Genesis 12:4</a></b></br> So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram <i>was</i> seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/2_kings/19-12.htm">2 Kings 19:12</a></b></br> Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; <i>as</i> Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which <i>were</i> in Thelasar?</p><p class="hdg">Charran.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/genesis/10-10.htm">Genesis 10:10,22</a></b></br> And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar… </p><p class="hdg">Calneh</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/10-9.htm">Isaiah 10:9</a></b></br> <i>Is</i> not Calno as Carchemish? <i>is</i> not Hamath as Arpad? <i>is</i> not Samaria as Damascus?</p><p class="hdg">Calno</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/amos/6-2.htm">Amos 6:2</a></b></br> Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: <i>be they</i> better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border?</p><p class="hdg">Eden</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/genesis/2-8.htm">Genesis 2:8</a></b></br> And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/amos/1-5.htm">Amos 1:5</a></b></br> I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith the LORD.</p><p class="hdg">Sheba</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/genesis/25-3.htm">Genesis 25:3</a></b></br> And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/job/1-15.htm">Job 1:15</a></b></br> And the Sabeans fell <i>upon them</i>, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.</p><p class="hdg">Asshur</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/genesis/32-22.htm">Genesis 32:22</a></b></br> And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/numbers/24-22.htm">Numbers 24:22</a></b></br> Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted, until Asshur shall carry thee away captive.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/83-8.htm">Psalm 83:8</a></b></br> Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/ezekiel/23-12.htm">Asshur</a> <a href="/isaiah/51-3.htm">Eden</a> <a href="/isaiah/37-12.htm">Haran</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-28.htm">Medes</a> <a href="/ezekiel/27-22.htm">Merchants</a> <a href="/ezekiel/27-22.htm">Sheba</a> <a href="/ezekiel/27-22.htm">Traded</a> <a href="/ezekiel/27-22.htm">Traders</a> <a href="/ezekiel/27-19.htm">Traffic</a> <a href="/ezekiel/27-22.htm">Traffickers</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/ezekiel/31-3.htm">Asshur</a> <a href="/ezekiel/28-13.htm">Eden</a> <a href="/acts/7-2.htm">Haran</a> <a href="/daniel/5-28.htm">Medes</a> <a href="/ezekiel/27-24.htm">Merchants</a> <a href="/ezekiel/38-13.htm">Sheba</a> <a href="/ezekiel/27-24.htm">Traded</a> <a href="/ezekiel/27-24.htm">Traders</a> <a href="/ezekiel/27-25.htm">Traffic</a> <a href="/ezekiel/27-24.htm">Traffickers</a><div class="vheading2">Ezekiel 27</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ezekiel/27-1.htm">The riches and commerce of Tyrus</a></span><br><span class="reftext">26. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ezekiel/27-26.htm">The great and irrecoverable fall thereof</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <br /><br /> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/ezekiel/27.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/ezekiel/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/ezekiel/27.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div><b>Haran, Canneh, and Eden traded with you</b><br>Haran: Haran was an ancient city located in what is now southeastern Turkey. It is historically significant as the place where Abraham's family settled after leaving Ur (<a href="/genesis/11-31.htm">Genesis 11:31</a>). Haran was a major trade center due to its strategic location on trade routes connecting Mesopotamia with the Mediterranean. This reference highlights the extensive trade network of Tyre, emphasizing its economic power and influence.<br><br>Canneh: Canneh is less well-known, but it is believed to be a city in Mesopotamia, possibly connected to Calneh mentioned in <a href="/genesis/10-10.htm">Genesis 10:10</a>. This city was part of Nimrod's kingdom, indicating its ancient roots and significance in trade and commerce. The mention of Canneh underscores the wide-ranging connections Tyre had with various regions.<br><br>Eden: This is not the Garden of Eden but likely refers to a region or trading center in Mesopotamia. Some scholars associate it with the "Beth-Eden" mentioned in <a href="/amos/1-5.htm">Amos 1:5</a>, which was a part of the Aramean kingdom. The inclusion of Eden in this list suggests the wealth and variety of goods that flowed into Tyre from distant lands.<p><b>and so did the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad</b><br>Sheba: Sheba is often associated with the Sabaeans, a wealthy kingdom in what is now Yemen. Known for their trade in spices, gold, and precious stones, the Sabaeans are famously connected to the Queen of Sheba, who visited King Solomon (<a href="/1_kings/10.htm">1 Kings 10:1-13</a>). This reference highlights the luxury goods that were part of Tyre's trade.<br><br>Asshur: Asshur was the capital of the Assyrian Empire, located in modern-day Iraq. The Assyrians were known for their military prowess and extensive trade networks. Their inclusion here indicates the political and economic interactions between Tyre and the powerful empires of the time.<br><br>Chilmad: Chilmad is a location that remains somewhat obscure, with limited historical records. Some suggest it may have been a trading post or region in Mesopotamia. Its mention alongside more prominent cities and regions suggests that even lesser-known places contributed to Tyre's vast trade network.<br><br>This verse collectively illustrates the extensive and diverse trade relationships that Tyre maintained, showcasing its role as a central hub in the ancient world. The cities and regions mentioned reflect a network that spanned from the Arabian Peninsula to Mesopotamia, highlighting Tyre's economic strength and the interconnectedness of ancient civilizations.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/h/haran.htm">Haran</a></b><br>An ancient city located in Mesopotamia, known for its trade routes and historical significance in the Bible, including being a place where Abraham sojourned.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/c/canneh.htm">Canneh</a></b><br>Likely a trading city or region, though its exact historical location is uncertain. It is mentioned in the context of trade, indicating its economic importance.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/e/eden.htm">Eden</a></b><br>While often associated with the Garden of Eden, in this context, it likely refers to a region or trading partner known for its wealth and resources.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/m/merchants_of_sheba.htm">Merchants of Sheba</a></b><br>Refers to traders from the region of Sheba, known for their wealth and luxury goods, such as spices and gold.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/a/asshur_and_chilmad.htm">Asshur and Chilmad</a></b><br>Asshur is a reference to the Assyrian Empire, a dominant power known for its military and economic strength. Chilmad is less well-known but is included among significant trading partners.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_trade_and_economy.htm">The Importance of Trade and Economy</a></b><br>The passage highlights the interconnectedness of ancient economies and the role of trade in societal development. Christians can reflect on the importance of ethical business practices and stewardship in today's global economy.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/g/god's_sovereignty_over_nations.htm">God's Sovereignty Over Nations</a></b><br>The inclusion of various nations and cities in Ezekiel's prophecy underscores God's control over all nations. Believers are reminded to trust in God's sovereignty over world events and political powers.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_transience_of_earthly_wealth.htm">The Transience of Earthly Wealth</a></b><br>The trading partners of Tyre, though wealthy and powerful, are ultimately subject to God's judgment. This serves as a reminder to prioritize spiritual wealth over material possessions.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/cultural_and_historical_context_in_scripture.htm">Cultural and Historical Context in Scripture</a></b><br>Understanding the historical and cultural background of biblical texts enriches our comprehension and application of Scripture. Christians are encouraged to study the Bible with an awareness of its historical context.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_ezekiel_27.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Ezekiel 27</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_does_'lord_of_the_sabbath'_mean.htm">What does 'Lord of the Sabbath' mean?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/is_ezekiel_44's_temple_purely_symbolic.htm">Ezekiel 44's temple regulations appear highly specific, yet no archaeological site conclusively matches this description--could this be evidence the prophecy was purely symbolic or never fulfilled?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/is_there_evidence_for_tarshish's_existence.htm">Jonah 1:3 - Is there any archaeological or historical evidence confirming Tarshish as a real destination matching the account?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_to_verify_ezekiel_12_3-7_acts.htm">How can we confirm Ezekiel's dramatic acts in Ezekiel 12:3-7 if no archaeological or historical records corroborate these public demonstrations?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/ezekiel/27.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(23) <span class= "bld">Haran, and Canneh, and Eden.--</span>The description now turns from Arabia to the Tyrian trade with Mesopotamia. Haran, important in the story of Abraham (<a href="/context/genesis/11-31.htm" title="And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran, and dwelled there.">Genesis 11:31-32</a>; <a href="/genesis/12-4.htm" title="So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken to him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.">Genesis 12:4</a>), the Charrae of the Romans, was in north-western Mesopotamia, at the junction of two great caravan routes, the one along the Tigris, the other along the Euphrates. Canneh, a contraction for the Calneh of <a href="/genesis/10-10.htm" title="And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.">Genesis 10:10</a>, was the most important commercial city on the former, and was later known as Ctesiphon. Eden was an unknown town on the Euphrates (<a href="/2_kings/19-12.htm" title="Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar?">2Kings 19:12</a>; <a href="/isaiah/37-12.htm" title="Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Telassar?">Isaiah 37:12</a>), and is to be distinguished from the Syrian Eden.<p><span class= "bld">Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad.--</span>Sheba is still the same Sheba before mentioned; for Pliny (<span class= "ital">Hist. Nat.,</span> xii. 40) says that the Sab?ans brought their goods from the spice country to Carrhae, where they held markets, and went thence to Syria and Ph?nicia. They were, therefore, traders between Mesopotamia and Ph?nicia. Asshur is here not the country of Assyria, but the commercial city Sura (modern Essurieh), on the banks of the Euphrates, above Thapsacus. Chilmad is supposed to be the Charmande of Xenophon (<span class= "ital">Anab.,</span> i. 5, 10), "a great city beyond the Euphrates, in the neighbourhood of the desert." Others identify it with Kalwada, near Bagdad. It is mentioned only here. . . . <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/ezekiel/27.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 23.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Haran and Canaeh</span>, etc. From Arabia we pass to Mesopotamia. Haran (<a href="/genesis/11-31.htm">Genesis 11:31</a>) stands for the Carrhae of the Romans, situated at the point where the old military and commercial roads bifurcated Cowards Babylon and the Delta of the Persian Gulf in the one direction, and Canaan in the other. It appears in <a href="/genesis/24-10.htm">Genesis 24:10</a> and Genesis 29:4 as the city of Nahor, in Mesopotamia (Aram-Naharaim, equivalent to "Syria of the two rivers"), or, more definitely, in Parian-Atom, which lies below Mount Masius, between the Khabour and the Euphrates. It is famous in Roman history for the defeat of Crassus by the Parthians. <span class="cmt_word">Caaneh</span>. The eastern of the two roads just mentioned ran on to Calneh (of which Cauneh is a variant), named in <a href="/genesis/10-10.htm">Genesis 10:10</a> as one of the cities built by Nimrod. It is probably represented by the modern <span class="accented">Niffer</span>, about sixty miles southeast of Babylon. It is named in <a href="/isaiah/10-9.htm">Isaiah 10:9</a> in connection with Carehemish, in <a href="/amos/6-2.htm">Amos 6:2</a> with Hamath the great, as conquered by the Assyrians. It has been conjecturally identified by the Targum and other ancient writers with Ctesiphon, but (?). <span class="cmt_word">Eden</span>; spelt differently in the Hebrew from the Eden of <a href="/genesis/2-8.htm">Genesis 2:8</a>. It is probably identical with the Eden near Thelassar (<span class="accented">Td</span>. <span class="accented">Assar</span>) of <a href="/isaiah/37-12.htm">Isaiah 37:12</a> and <a href="/2_kings/19-12.htm">2 Kings 19:12</a>, where, as here, it is connected with Haran as among the Assyrian conquests. Its site has not been determined, and it has been placed by some geographers in the hill-country above the Upper Mesopetamian plains; by others near the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates. The position of the Eden of <a href="/amos/1-5.htm">Amos 1:5</a>, near Damascus, points to a Syrian town of the same name. <span class="cmt_word">The merchants of Sheba.</span> The recurrence of the name after the full mention of the people in Ver. 22 arises probably from the fact that they were the carriers in the commerce between the Mesopotamian cities just named and Tyre. <span class="cmt_word">Asshur</span>. The name may stand (Smend), as it commonly does, for Assyria as a country; but its juxtaposition with the names of cities has led some geographers (Movers, p. 252, in Keil) to identify with a city Sum (<span class="accented">Essurieh</span>) on the west bank of the Euphrates, above Thapsacus (the <span class="accented">Tiphsah</span> of <a href="/1_kings/4-24.htm">1 Kings 4:24</a>), and on the caravan-route which runs from Palmyra (the <span class="accented">Tadmor</span> of <a href="/2_chronicles/8-4.htm">2 Chronicles 8:4</a>) to Haran. <span class="cmt_word">Chilmad</span>. The name is not found elsewhere. The LXX. gives Charman, a town near the Euphrates, mentioned in Xenophon, 'Anab.,' 1:5. 10, as Charmaude. It can scarcely have been a place of much general note, but may have had some special reputation which made it prominent in Tyrian commerce. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/ezekiel/27-23.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">Haran,</span><br /><span class="heb">חָרָ֤ן</span> <span class="translit">(ḥā·rān)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2771.htm">Strong's 2771: </a> </span><span class="str2">Haran -- 'crossroads', a city in northern Mesopotamia</span><br /><br /><span class="word">Canneh,</span><br /><span class="heb">וְכַנֵּה֙</span> <span class="translit">(wə·ḵan·nêh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3656.htm">Strong's 3656: </a> </span><span class="str2">Canneh -- probably a place in Babylon</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and Eden,</span><br /><span class="heb">וָעֶ֔דֶן</span> <span class="translit">(wā·‘e·ḏen)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5729.htm">Strong's 5729: </a> </span><span class="str2">Eden -- a territory conquered by Assyr</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and the merchants</span><br /><span class="heb">רֹכְלֵ֖י</span> <span class="translit">(rō·ḵə·lê)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7402.htm">Strong's 7402: </a> </span><span class="str2">To travel for, trading</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of Sheba,</span><br /><span class="heb">שְׁבָ֑א</span> <span class="translit">(šə·ḇā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7614.htm">Strong's 7614: </a> </span><span class="str2">Sheba -- a territory in soutwest Arabia, also the name of one or more descendant of Noah</span><br /><br /><span class="word">Asshur,</span><br /><span class="heb">אַשּׁ֖וּר</span> <span class="translit">(’aš·šūr)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_804.htm">Strong's 804: </a> </span><span class="str2">Ashshur</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and Chilmad</span><br /><span class="heb">כִּלְמַ֥ד</span> <span class="translit">(kil·maḏ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3638.htm">Strong's 3638: </a> </span><span class="str2">Chilmad -- a place of uncertain location</span><br /><br /><span class="word">traded with you.</span><br /><span class="heb">רֹכַלְתֵּֽךְ׃</span> <span class="translit">(rō·ḵal·têḵ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine singular construct | second person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7402.htm">Strong's 7402: </a> </span><span class="str2">To travel for, trading</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/ezekiel/27-23.htm">Ezekiel 27:23 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/ezekiel/27-23.htm">Ezekiel 27:23 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/ezekiel/27-23.htm">Ezekiel 27:23 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/ezekiel/27-23.htm">Ezekiel 27:23 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/ezekiel/27-23.htm">Ezekiel 27:23 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/ezekiel/27-23.htm">Ezekiel 27:23 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/ezekiel/27-23.htm">Ezekiel 27:23 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/ezekiel/27-23.htm">Ezekiel 27:23 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/ezekiel/27-23.htm">Ezekiel 27:23 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/ezekiel/27-23.htm">Ezekiel 27:23 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/ezekiel/27-23.htm">OT Prophets: Ezekiel 27:23 Haran and Canneh and Eden the traffickers (Ezek. 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