Ezekiel 27:20 - Exposition

Dedan (see Ezekiel 27:15 ). Here probably we have another portion of the same race. The precious clothes for riding (Revised Version) were probably of the nature of the carpets used then as now as saddle-cloths—the ephippia of the Greeks—in Persia and other parts of Asia. Compare "ye that sit on rich carpels," in 5:10 (Revised Version). So the Vulgate, tapetibus ad sedendum . The LXX . gives κτήνη ἔκλετα , as though it referred to horses.