Ezekiel 27:6

6. The company of the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of Chittim R.V., “they have made thy benches [deck] of ivory inlaid in boxwood [larch], from the isles of Kittim.” Kittim, or Chittim, is generally connected with Kition in Cyprus and supposed to mean in a general sense “Cyprians.” (Compare Numbers 24:24.) Hommel, however, connects the word with the well-known Kheta, or Hittites, though specially applied to Cilicia or Cyprus; Jensen, with a Phoenician word, Kitti, referring to a people dwelling west of Cyprus; “perhaps the Greeks of Europe in Greece as well as in the regions west of it, perhaps all the other inhabitants of Italy included.” The isles of Chittim “certainly had a broad meaning in later times, being used much as ‘the Indies’ in the time of Elizabeth” (Daniel 11:30). Phoenicia enjoyed a great reputation for its work in ivory (1 Kings 22:39; Psalms 45:8). The “oaks of Bashan” were always celebrated (Isaiah 2:13; Zechariah 11:2).