Commerce

Commerce

The barter of one commodity for another - 1Ki 5:8,11

The exchange of commodities for money - 1Ki 10:28,29

CALLED

• Trade
- Ge 34:10; Mt 25:16
• Traffic
- Ge 42:34; Eze 17:4
• Buying and selling
- Jas 4:13

ARTICLES OF, CALLED

• Merchandise
- Eze 26:12; Mt 22:5
• Wares
- Jer 10:17; Eze 27:16; Jon 1:5

PERSONS ENGAGED IN, CALLED

• Merchants
- Ge 37:28; Pr 31:24
• Chapmen
- 2Ch 9:14
• Traffickers
- Isa 23:8
• Sellers and buyers
- Isa 24:2

Carried on in fairs, &c - Eze 27:12,19; Mt 11:16

Inland, by caravans - Job 6:19; Isa 21:13

Maritime, by ships - 2Ch 8:18; 9:21

Persons of distinction engaged in - Isa 23:8

Increased the wealth of nations and individuals - 2Ch 9:20-22; Pr 31:14-18; Eze 28:4,5

CARRIED ON BY

• Ishmaelites
- Ge 37:25
• Egyptians
- Ge 42:2-34
• Ethiopians
- Isa 45:14
• Ninevites
- Na 3:16
• Syrians
- Eze 27:16,18
• People of Tarshish
- Eze 27:25
• People of Tyre
- Eze 28:5,13,16
• Jews
- Eze 27:17

OF THE JEWS

• Under strict laws
- Le 19:36,37; 25:14,17
• Commenced after their settlement in Canaan
- Ge 49:13; Jud 5:17
• Greatly extended by Solomon
- 1Ki 9:26,27; 2Ch 9:21
• Checked in Jehoshaphat's time
- 1Ki 22:48,49

Success in, led to pride, &c - Eze 28:2,16-18

Evil practices connected with - Pr 20:14; Eze 22:13; Ho 12:7

Denunciations connected with abuses of - Isa 23:11; Eze 7:12,13; 27:32-36; 28:16-18

ARTICLES OF

• Blue cloth
- Eze 27:24
• Brass
- Eze 27:13
• Corn
- 1Ki 5:11; Eze 27:17
• Cattle
- Eze 27:21
• Chests of rich apparel
- Eze 27:24
• Chariots
- 1Ki 10:29
• Clothes for chariots
- Eze 27:20
• Embroidery
- Eze 27:16,24
• Gold
- 2Ch 8:18
• Honey
- Eze 27:17
• Horses
- 1Ki 10:29; Eze 27:14
• Ivory
- 2Ch 9:21; Eze 27:15
• Iron and steel
- Eze 27:12,19
• Land
- Ge 23:13-16; Ru 4:3
• Lead
- Eze 27:12
• Linen
- 1Ki 10:28
• Oil
- 1Ki 5:11; Eze 27:17
• Perfumes
- So 3:6
• Precious stones
- Eze 27:16,22; 28:13,16
• Purple
- Eze 27:16
• Slaves
- Ge 37:28,36; De 24:7
• Silver
- 2Ch 9:21
• Timber
- 1Ki 5:6,8
• Tin
- Eze 27:12
• White wool
- Eze 27:18
• Wine
- 2Ch 2:15; Eze 27:18

Illustrative of intercourse with the apostasy - Re 18:3-19