22 Verses About Merchants from 9 Books

1 Kings 10:15

besides [that which] the traders [brought], and the traffic of the merchants, and of all the kings of the mixed people, and of the governors of the country.

1 Kings 10:28

The horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt; and the king's merchants received them in droves, each drove at a price.

2 Chronicles 1:16

The horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt and from Kue; the king's merchants purchased them from Kue.

2 Chronicles 9:14

besides that which the traders and merchants brought: and all the kings of Arabia and the governors of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon.

Ezekiel 16:29

You have moreover multiplied your prostitution to the land of merchants, to Chaldea; and yet you weren't satisfied with this.

Ezekiel 17:4

he cropped off the topmost of the young twigs of it, and carried it to a land of traffic; he set it in a city of merchants.

Ezekiel 27:21

Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they were the merchants of your hand; in lambs, and rams, and goats, in these were they your merchants.



Ezekiel 27:36

The merchants among the peoples hiss at you; you are become a terror, and you shall nevermore have any being.

Ezekiel 38:13

Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions of it, shall tell you, Have you come to take the spoil? have you assembled your company to take the prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to take great spoil?

Genesis 23:16

Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants' standard.

Genesis 37:28

Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. They brought Joseph into Egypt.

Isaiah 23:2

Be still, you inhabitants of the coast, you whom the merchants of Sidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.

Isaiah 23:8

Who has planned this against Tyre, the giver of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honorable of the earth?

Job 41:6

Will traders barter for him? Will they part him among the merchants?



Nahum 3:16

You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips, and flees away.

Nehemiah 3:31

After him repaired Malchijah one of the goldsmiths to the house of the Nethinim, and of the merchants, over against the gate of Hammiphkad, and to the ascent of the corner.

Nehemiah 3:32

Between the ascent of the corner and the sheep gate repaired the goldsmiths and the merchants.

Nehemiah 13:20

So the merchants and sellers of all kinds of wares lodged outside of Jerusalem once or twice.

Revelation 18:3

For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality, the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from the abundance of her luxury."

Revelation 18:11

The merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her, for no one buys their merchandise any more;

Revelation 18:15

The merchants of these things, who were made rich by her, will stand far away for the fear of her torment, weeping and mourning;



Revelation 18:23

The light of a lamp will shine no more at all in you. The voice of the bridegroom and of the bride will be heard no more at all in you; for your merchants were the princes of the earth; for with your sorcery all the nations were deceived.





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