Ezekiel 27:24

24. All sorts of things Rather, fabrics of beauty. R.V., “choice wares.”

Blue clothes R.V., “wrappings [bales] of blue.” (Compare Ezekiel 23:12.) The description is so vivid as to give the impression that Ezekiel had seen the merchants of Sheba unloading their camels and bringing out their treasures as they arrived at Tyre (Plumptre). Davidson translates chests by “treasures,” and shows that the term corresponding to rich apparel is used by the Assyrians of fabrics woven of different colored materials. In this case the “cords twined and durable” ( bound with cords, and made of cedar) would be one of the articles of commerce. (See Ezekiel 16:10; Ezekiel 23:6; Esther 1:6; Joshua 7:21.) Toy translates “ strangely bound skeins.”