The men of Dedan were your merchants; many coastlands were the markets of your hand: they brought you for a present tusks of ivory and ebony.
All Commentaries on Ezekiel 27:15 Go To Ezekiel 27
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Dedan. Septuagint, "Rhodians "or rather Arabs are meant, ver. 20. They might receive ivory from Ethiopia.
Teeth. Hebrew, "horns or tusks "which the elephant casts every year. The ivory is less brittle, 3 Kings x. 18. (Calmet)
Ebony; a hard black wood, like horn. (Bo chart)
