Nave’s Topical Bible
Commerce
102 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- Laws concerning
- Carried on by means of caravans
- Carried on by means of ships
1 Kings 9:27-28; 1 Kings 10:11; 1 Kings 22:48; Psalms 107:23-30; Proverbs 31:11; Revelation 18:19
- Conducted in fairs
- Of the Arabians
- Egyptians
- Ethiopians
- Ishmaelites
- Israelites
- Ninevites
- Syrians
- Tyrians
2 Samuel 5:11; 1 Kings 5:6; Isaiah 23:8; Ezekiel 27; Ezekiel 28:5
- Zidonians
- Babylonians
- Jews
- From Tarshish
- Evil practices connected with
- Articles of
- Apes
- Balm
- Blue cloth
- Brass
- Cinnamon
- Corn
- Cattle
- Chest of rich apparel
- Chariots
- Clothes for chariots
- Embroidery
- Frankincense
- Gold
1 Kings 9:28; 1 Kings 10:22; 2 Chronicles 8:18; Isaiah 60:6; Revelation 18:12
- Honey
- Horses
- Ivory
1 Kings 10:22; 2 Chronicles 9:21; Ezekiel 27:15; Revelation 18:12
- Iron and steel
- Land
- Lead
- Linen
- Oil
- Pearls
- Peacocks
- Perfumes
- Precious stones
- Purple
- Sheep
- Slaves
- Silk
- Silver
- Sweet cane
- Thyine wood
- Timber
- Tin
- Wheat
- White wool
- Wine
- Bodies and souls of men
- Transportation of passengers
See MERCHANT
See TARSHISH
See TRADE
See TRAFFIC
Bible verses about “Commerce”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Leviticus 19:36Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the Lord your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.
- Leviticus 19:37Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I am the Lord.
- Leviticus 25:14And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour’s hand, ye shall not oppress one another:
- Leviticus 25:17Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am the Lord your God.
- Genesis 37:25And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
- Genesis 37:27Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmeelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for he is our brother and our flesh. And his brethren were content.
- Isaiah 60:6The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring gold and incense; and they shall shew forth the praises of the Lord.
- 1 Kings 9:27And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.
- 1 Kings 9:28And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
- 1 Kings 10:11And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees, and precious stones.
- 1 Kings 22:48Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at Ezion–geber.
- Psalms 107:23They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters;
- Psalms 107:24These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
- Psalms 107:25For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.
- Psalms 107:26They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.
- Psalms 107:27They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits’ end.
- Psalms 107:28Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.
- Psalms 107:29He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.
- Psalms 107:30Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.
- Proverbs 31:11The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.
- Revelation 18:19And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
- Ezekiel 27:12Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs.
- Ezekiel 27:19Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market.
- Matthew 11:16But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows,
- Jeremiah 6:20To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.
- Ezekiel 27:21Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with thee in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these were they thy merchants.
- Ezekiel 27:22The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were thy merchants: they occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold.
- Ezekiel 27:23Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad, were thy merchants.
- Ezekiel 27:24These were thy merchants in all sorts of things, in blue clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among thy merchandise.
- Genesis 42:2And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.
- Genesis 42:3And Joseph’s ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.
- Genesis 42:4But Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.
- Genesis 42:5And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
- Genesis 42:6And Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it was that sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph’s brethren came, and bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth.
- Genesis 42:7And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.
- Genesis 42:8And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.
- Genesis 42:9And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them, Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.
- Genesis 42:10And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come.
- Genesis 42:11We are all one man’s sons; we are true men, thy servants are no spies.
- Genesis 42:12And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.