Eze 27:6 | JFB | STEP | 6. Bashan —celebrated for its oaks, as Lebanon was for its cedars. the company of . . . Ashurites —the most skilful workmen summoned from Assyria. Rather, as the Hebrew orthography requires, "They have made thy (rowing) benches of ivory inlaid in the daughter of cedars " [MAURER ], or, the best boxwood. FAIRBAIRN , with BOCHART , reads the Hebrew two words as one: "Thy plankwork ( deck: instead of 'benches,' as the Hebrew is singular ) they made ivory with boxes. " English Version, with MAURER'S correction, is simpler. Chittim —Cyprus and Macedonia, from which, PLINY tells us, the best boxwood came [GROTIUS ].

Ezekiel 27:6

6. Bashan—celebrated for its oaks, as Lebanon was for its cedars.

the company of . . . Ashurites—the most skilful workmen summoned from Assyria. Rather, as the Hebrew orthography requires, "They have made thy (rowing) benches of ivory inlaid in the daughter of cedars" [MAURER], or, the best boxwood. FAIRBAIRN, with BOCHART, reads the Hebrew two words as one: "Thy plankwork (deck: instead of 'benches,' as the Hebrew is singular) they made ivory with boxes." English Version, with MAURER'S correction, is simpler.

Chittim—Cyprus and Macedonia, from which, PLINY tells us, the best boxwood came [GROTIUS].