Bible Strands
Ezekiel 27:17
Judah and the land of Israel traded with you; they exchanged wheat from Minnith, cakes and honey, oil and balm for your merchandise.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Ezekiel delivers a prophetic oracle detailing the commercial supply chain that sustained the maritime city of Tyre, listing the foreign and domestic partners who fed its markets.
The words — The text names יְהוּדָה (Judah) and אֶרֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל (land of Israel) as רֹכְלֶיךָ (your traders) who exchange בְּחִטֵּי מִנִּית (wheat of Minnith) and פַּנֶּג (cakes) for Tyre’s merchandise.
The thread — Minnith appears in Judges 11:33 as a Moabite border city, the phrase "best products of the land" mirrors Genesis 43:11, and the trade inventory continues in Ezekiel 27:18 with Damascus.
Why it lands — The passage records how Judah and Israel directly supplied luxury provisions to a pagan commercial hub, showing that covenant territory functioned as a direct economic partner in Tyre’s wealth.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm.
Cross-references
- Judges 11:33 With a great blow he devastated twenty cities from Aroer to the vicinity of Minnith, as far as Abel-keramim. So the Ammonites were subdued before the Israelites.
- 1 Kings 5:9 My servants will haul the logs from Lebanon to the Sea, and I will float them as rafts by sea to the place you specify. There I will separate the logs, and you can take them away. And in exchange, you can meet my needs by providing my household with food.”
- Genesis 43:11 Then their father Israel said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: Put some of the best products of the land in your packs and carry them down as a gift for the man—a little balm and a little honey, spices and myrrh, pistachios and almonds.
- Deuteronomy 8:8 a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey;
- Deuteronomy 32:14 with curds from the herd and milk from the flock, with the fat of lambs, with rams from Bashan, and goats, with the choicest grains of wheat. From the juice of the finest grapes you drank the wine.
- 2 Chronicles 2:10 I will pay your servants, the woodcutters, 20,000 cors of ground wheat, 20,000 cors of barley, 20,000 baths of wine, and 20,000 baths of olive oil.”
- Ezra 3:7 They gave money to the masons and carpenters, and food and drink and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre to bring cedar logs from Lebanon to Joppa by sea, as authorized by Cyrus king of Persia.
- Jeremiah 8:22 Is there no balm in Gilead? Is no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?
- Acts 12:20 Now Herod was in a furious dispute with the people of Tyre and Sidon, and they convened before him. Having secured the support of Blastus, the king’s chamberlain, they asked for peace, because their region depended on the king’s country for food.