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upon EZEKIEL. 215
Ver. 1 $. Javan, Tubal and Mejhech were thy Chapter
Merchants.] By Javan is to he underftood Greece, XXVII.
in which Senfe (Alexander is ftyled King of Javan iyv*\J
or Greece, "Dan. viii. 21*. So the LXX tranflate^ cr * l l*
it here, and in that place of "Daniel. And all
Greece, except Teloponnefus, was anciently called
Jonia. Tubal and Mejhech are Names ufually
c
joined together in Scripture : Bochart fuppofes them
to be the fame with thofe People afterward called
Mojchi and Tibareni, whofe Habitation was near
the Euxine Sea.
Ibid. They traded in the Terfons of Men.] In
buying and felling Slaves in the Markets. The
Hebrew reads /// the Souls of Men, the Word Nefhejh
Soul, fometimes fignifying a Slave. Comp.
1 Chron. v. 21. Numb. xxxi. 35. Revel, xviii. 13.
In which Senfe fome underftand the Word Gen.
xii. 1 5.
Ibid. oAud FeJJels of "Brafs in thy Markets.']
Criticks obferve that the Word Nehofteth, commonly
tranflated "Brafs, does likewife fignify Steel,
and fo it is rendered by our Interpreters, Tfal. xviii.
34. a 'Bow of Steel is broken by my oArms. And
we may very well underftand it fo here, for the
Chalybes, a People fo called from their Steel Manufactures,
lived near Tontus, in the Neighbourhood
of the Mofchi and Tibareni ; for which Rea-
fon Steel is called the Northern Iron, Jer. xv. iz.
Ver. 14. They of the Houfe of Togarmah trade^ Ver. 14.
in thy Fairs.] By Togarmah 'Bochart underftands
Cappadocia: The LXX read the Word ®o§jafJ,
Gen. x. 14. which comes near in Sound to Trogma
oxTrocma, 3. part ofCappadocia.
F f Ver.