Ezekiel 27:19
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in your fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in your market.
American King James Version (AKJV)
Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in your fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in your market.
American Standard Version (ASV)
Vedan and Javan traded with yarn for thy wares: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were among thy merchandise.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
... for your goods: they gave polished iron and spices for your goods.
Webster's Revision
Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market.
World English Bible
Vedan and Javan traded with yarn for your wares: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were among your merchandise.
English Revised Version (ERV)
Vedan and Javan traded with yarn for thy wares: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were among thy merchandise.
Clarke's Ezekiel 27:19 Bible Commentary
Dan also and Javan - It is probable that both these words mean some of the Grecian islands.
Going to and fro - They both took and brought - imported and exported: but מאוזל meuzal, from uzal, may be a proper name. What place is signified I cannot tell, unless it be Azal, a name, according to Kamoos, of the capital of Arabia Felix.
Barnes's Ezekiel 27:19 Bible Commentary
Dan also - Hebrew Vedan, a place in Arabia, not elsewhere mentioned.
Going to and fro - Better as in the margin, a proper name, "Meuzal," or rather, "from Uzal" which was the ancient name of Senaa the capital of Yemen in Arabia. Greek merchants would carry on commerce between Uzal and Tyre.
Bright iron - literally, "wrought iron;" iron worked into plates smooth and polished. Yemen was famous for the manufacture of sword-blades.
Cassia - The inner bark of an aromatic plant.
Calamus - A fragrant reed-like plant (see Exodus 30:23-24). Both are special products of India and Arabia.
Wesley's Ezekiel 27:19 Bible Commentary
27:19 Javan - In the isle of Meroe, in Egypt.