Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 27:6
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6. Bashan —celebrated for its oaks, as Lebanon was for its cedars. the company of . . . Ashurites —the most skilful workmen summoned from Assyria. Rather, as the Hebrew orthography requires, "They have made thy (rowing) benches of ivory inlaid in the daughter of cedars " [MAURER], or, the best boxwood. FAIRBAIRN, with BOCHART, reads the Hebrew two words as one: "Thy plankwork ( deck: instead of 'benches,' as the Hebrew is singular ) they made ivory with boxes. " English Version, with MAURER'S correction, is simpler. Chittim —Cyprus and Macedonia, from which, PLINY tells us, the best boxwood came [GROTIUS]. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-7" class="com-number"
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