Ezekiel 27:9
Good News Translation
The ship's carpenters Were well-trained men from Byblos. Sailors from every seagoing ship Did business in your shops.

New Revised Standard Version
The elders of Gebal and its artisans were within you, caulking your seams; all the ships of the sea with their mariners were within you, to barter for your wares.

Contemporary English Version
Experienced men from Byblos repaired any damages. Sailors from all over shopped at the stores in your port.

New American Bible
The elders and sages of Gebal were with you to caulk your seams. Every ship and sailor on the sea came to you to carry on trade.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The ancients of Gebal, and the wise men thereof furnished mariners for the service of thy various furniture: all the ships of the sea, and their mariners were thy factors.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The ancients of Gebal, and the wise men thereof furnished mariners for the service of thy various furniture: all the ships of the sea, and their mariners were thy factors.

Gebal

Joshua 13:5 And his confines. The country also of Libanus towards the east from Baalgad under mount Hermon to the entering into Emath.

1 Kings 5:18 And the masons of Solomon, and the masons of Hiram, hewed them: and the Giblians prepared timber and stones to build the house.

Psalm 83:7 Gebal, and Ammon and Amalec: the Philistines, with the inhabitants of Tyre.

calkers.

Ezekiel 27:27 Thy riches, and thy treasures, and thy manifold furniture, thy mariners, and thy pilots, who kept thy goods, and were chief over thy people: thy men of war also, that were in thee, with all thy multitude that is in the midst of thee: shall fall in the heart of the sea in the day of thy ruin.

Context
A Lament for Tyre
8The inhabitants of Sidon, and the Arabians were thy rowers: thy wise men, O Tyre, were thy pilots. 9The ancients of Gebal, and the wise men thereof furnished mariners for the service of thy various furniture: all the ships of the sea, and their mariners were thy factors.10The Persians, and Lydians, and the Libyans were thy soldiers in thy army: they hung up the buckler and the helmet in thee for thy ornament.…
Cross References
Revelation 18:3
Because all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication: and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her; And the merchants of the earth have been made rich by the power of her delicacies.

Revelation 18:11
And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her: for no man shall buy their merchandise any more.

Joshua 13:5
And his confines. The country also of Libanus towards the east from Baalgad under mount Hermon to the entering into Emath.

1 Kings 5:18
And the masons of Solomon, and the masons of Hiram, hewed them: and the Giblians prepared timber and stones to build the house.

Psalm 83:7
Gebal, and Ammon and Amalec: the Philistines, with the inhabitants of Tyre.

Psalm 104:26
There the ships shall go. This sea dragon which thou hast formed to play therein.

Ezekiel 27:8
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