This whole passage should be compared with Ezekiel 27, where the wealth and trade of Tyre is described in detail.

and scarlet Thus far the goods enumerated have been expressed by genitives, "merchandise of gold … and of scarlet." Here they cease to be so, as far as the word "sheep."

thyine wood Wood of the thyiaor thyion, a kind of cypress or arbor vitae: apparently the same that was called citrusby the Romans, and used for the costliest furniture.

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