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Reference: Occupy
Hastings
The 'occupier' of Eze 27:27 is a 'trader,' and 'to occupy' (Eze 27:9; Lu 19:13) is 'to trade.' The original meaning of the Eng. word is to be engaged in anything.
The 'occupier' of Eze 27:27 is a 'trader,' and 'to occupy' (Eze 27:9; Lu 19:13) is 'to trade.' The original meaning of the Eng. word is to be engaged in anything.
The responsible men of Gebal and its wise men were in you, making your boards watertight: all the ships of the sea with their seamen were in you trading in your goods.
Your wealth and your goods, the things in which you do trade, your seamen and those guiding your ships, those who make your boards watertight, and those who do business with your goods, and all your men of war who are in you, with all who have come together in you, will go down into the heart of the seas in the day of your downfall.
And he sent for ten of his servants and gave them ten pounds and said to them, Do business with this till I come.
Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain