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John Gill's Exposition on Ezekiel 27:17
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants, &c.] The inhabitants of Judah and Israel; the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin, and the other ten tribes of Israel, they all merchandised with the Tyrians, being near unto them: they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith; the name of a place, (<071133>Judges 11:33), where probably the best wheat grew; so the Targum renders it; the Tyrians were supplied with wheat from the land of Israel, in the times of Solomon, long before this, (<110511>1 Kings 5:11) as they were in the times of Herod, long after, (<441220>Acts 12:20), it was four miles from Esbus or Heshbon, in the way to Philadelphia, according to Eusebius: and Pannag; which some take to be the name of a place, where the best wheat also was; which some say was Phoenicia, or the land of Canaan. The Septuagint render it “ointments”: and the Latin interpreter of the Targum “balsam”; with which agrees Josephus ben Gorionf461, who says that at Jericho grew the balsam tree, from whence came a precious oil, which oil is “pannag”: and Hillerusf462 translates it balsam: it follows, and honey, and oil: with which the land of Canaan abounded; for it was a land of oil olive and honey, a land that flowed with milk and honey, (<050808>Deuteronomy 8:8) so that they had enough for themselves, and to spare for their neighbours, and which they carried to the market of Tyre: and balm; or balsam, of which there was plenty at Gilead, and near Jericho, however at the latter; we read of the balm of Gilead, (<240822>Jeremiah 8:22 46:11). The Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions render it “rosin”; and so the Targum; and this the Tyrians might make use of in their shipsf463. The balm, or balsam plant, was peculiar to Judea, as Plinyf464; at least it was the place of it until transplanted into other countries; and so says Solinusf465.
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