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].