Ezekiel 27:15

27:15 The Dedanites ¹  were your clients. Many coastlands were your customers; they paid ²  you with ivory tusks and ebony.

Ezekiel 27:3

27:3 Say to Tyre, who sits at the entrance ³  of the sea, ⁴  merchant to the peoples on many coasts, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says:

“‘O Tyre, you have said, “I am perfectly beautiful.”

[27:15]  ¹ tn Heb “sons of Dedan.”

[27:15]  ² tn Heb “they returned as your gift.”

[27:3]  ³ tn Heb “entrances.” The plural noun may reflect the fact that Tyre had two main harbors.

[27:3]  ⁴ sn Rome, another economic power, is described in a similar way in Rev 17:1.