5587 trade
Dictionary of Bible Themes

Fair business transactions are essential to distribute the benefits of God's goodness between individuals and nations. Scripture insists on honesty in trade and warns against abuses.

Leviticus 25:14

Trade in ancient Israel

2 Kings 4:7; 7:1
Nehemiah 3:31-32

Land transactions required the approval of the ruler of the state

Proverbs 31:13-18,24
Zephaniah 1:11

The good wife's trade:

Matthew 21:12

pp Mk 11:15-16

pp Lk 19:45

pp Jn 2:14-16

trade in Jerusalem in Jesus Christ's day

1 Kings 9:26-28

International trade

Under Solomon

See also

1 Kings 10:14-15

pp 2Ch 8:17-18

1 Kings 10:28-29

pp 2Ch 9:13-14

Transit taxes were imposed on inter-state trade. Also some taxes were owed to the state by merchants for some kinds of trade

2 Chronicles 9:21
Songs 3:6-7

pp 2Ch 1:16-17

1 Kings 22:48

Under Jehoshaphat

pp 2Ch 20:35-37

Psalms 107:23

Soon afterwards the port of Ezion Geber passed back into the hands of Edom (see 2Ki 8:20).

In the Psalms

Genesis 23:16

Trade among the nations

Hittites

Genesis 34:10,21

Shechemites

Genesis 37:25

Ishmaelites

See also

Genesis 37:28

Midianites

Genesis 42:34
Isaiah 45:14

Egypt

Job 6:19
Jeremiah 6:20

Sheba

1 Kings 20:34

Damascus

Isaiah 23:8

See also

Tyre and the surrounding nations

Ezekiel 27:1-36
Ezekiel 38:13
Jonah 1:3-5

Tarshish

Nahum 3:16

Nineveh

Ezekiel 16:29; 17:4

Ancient Babylon

Revelation 18:9-24

See also

Babylon the Great

Revelation 18:2-3
Leviticus 19:35-36

Honesty is essential in trade

See also

Deuteronomy 25:13-16
Proverbs 11:1; 16:11; 20:10,23
Amos 8:4-5

Warnings against abuses in trade

See also

Dishonesty

Ezekiel 28:18
Hosea 12:7
Micah 6:10-11
Job 20:18-19
Ezekiel 28:16

Oppression

James 4:13-16

Overconfidence

Ezekiel 28:5

See also

Pride

Isaiah 2:12,16; 23:17-18
Nehemiah 10:31; 13:15-22

Sabbath trading

Genesis 37:26-28,36; 39:1
Amos 2:6; 8:6

The slave trade

1 Timothy 1:10
Revelation 18:13
John 2:14-16

Sacrilegious trade

Joel 3:3

Immoral trade

Matthew 13:45-46

The imagery of trade applied to spiritual matters

See also

Proverbs 23:23
Matthew 25:14-18
Luke 19:13
1 Corinthians 6:20

See also

5242 buying & selling
5310 exploitation
5361 justice, human
5403 masons
5408 messenger
5434 officer
5513 sceptre
5518 seal
5615 weights
7428 Sabbath
8275 honesty
8714 dishonesty
Dictionary of Bible Themes
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