21 Bible Verses about Merchants

And when they had sat down to eat bread, they lifted up their eyes and looked, and lo! a caravan of Ishmaelites, coming in from Gilead, - and, their camels, were bearing tragacanth gum, and balsam and cistus-gum, they were going their way, to take them down to Egypt. So Judah said unto his brethren, - What profit that we slay our brother, and conceal his blood? Come and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites; but let not, out own hand, be upon him, for our own brother, our own flesh, is he And his brethren hearkened.read more.
And there passed by certain Midianites travelling merchants, so they drew forth and uplifted Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites, for twenty pieces of silver, - and they brought Joseph into Egypt.

Mine own brethren, have proved treacherous like a torrent, like a channel of torrents which disappear: Which darken by reason of the cold, over them, is a covering made by the snow: By the time they begin to thaw, they are dried up, as soon as it is warm, they have vanished out of their place.read more.
Caravans turn aside by their course, they go up into a waste, and are lost: The caravans of Tema looked about, the travelling companies of Sheba, hoped for them: They are ashamed that they had trusted, They have come up to one of them, and are confounded. For, now, ye have come to him, ye see something fearful, and fear.

She is like the ships of the merchant, from afar, she bringeth in her food;

A fleet also, did King Solomon build in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom. And Hiram sent in the fleet his servants, seamen, having knowledge of the sea, - with the servants of Solomon; and they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence, gold, four hundred and twenty talents, - and brought it to King Solomon.

Then, went Solomon to Ezion-geber, and unto Eloth on the seashore in the land of Edom. And Huram sent him - by the hand of his servants - ships, and servants skilled in the sea, and they came, with the servants of Solomon, towards Ophir, and took from thence, four hundred and fifty talents of gold, - and brought unto King Solomon.

Moreover also, the fleet of Hiram, which brought gold from Ophir, brought in, from Ophir sandal-wood in great abundance, and precious stones. So the king made of the sandal-wood a footpath to the house of Yahweh, and to the house of the king, lyres also and harps, for the singers, - there hath neither come in such sandal-wood, nor been seen, unto this day.

Moreover also, the servants of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, who brought gold from Ophir, brought sandal-wood and precious stones. And the king made of the sandal-wood, stairs unto the house of Yahweh, and unto the house of the king, also lyres and harps, for the singers, - and there were none seen like them before, in the land of Judah.

Jehoshaphat, made ships of Tarshish, to go to Ophir, for gold; but they went not, - for ships had been broken to pieces in Ezion-geber.

Yet, after this, did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join himself with Ahaziah king of Israel, - he, was lawless in his doings; and he joined with him, to make ships to go unto Tarshish, - and they made ships in Ezion-geber, Then prophesied, Eliezer son of Dodavahu of Mareshah, against Jehoshaphat, saying, - Because thou hast joined thyself with Ahaziah, Yahweh hath broken in pieces thy works. So the ships were wrecked, and were not able to go unto Tarshish.

Men who go down to the sea, in ships, doing business through mighty waters;

Be dumb, ye inhabitants of the Coast, - Whom the merchants of Zidon, passing over the sea, once replenished; Yea on mighty waters, was the grain of Shihor, The harvest of the Nile, was her increase, - And so she became a mart of nations.

the ships of Tarshish, were thy masts Carrying on thy barter, So wast thou fled and becamest very glorious In the heart of the seas.

Howl, ye inhabitants of the lower city, - because destroyed are all the people of traffic, cut off are all they who were laden with silver.

after him, repaired, Malchijah son of Zorphi, as far as the house of the Nethinim, and the traders, - over against the muster-gate, even unto the ascent of the pinnacle; and, between the ascent of the pinnacle and the sheep-gate, repaired, the goldsmiths, and the traders.

The crown of its young twigs, plucked he off, and brought it into a land of traffic, :in a city of merchants, he t it.

And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron, and Abraham weighed out to Ephron the silver of which he had spoken in the ears of the sons of Heth, - four hundred shekels of silver, current with the merchant,

A trafficker! in his hand, are balances of deceit, to oppress, he loveth.

Hear this, ye who pant after the needy, and to make an end of the oppressed of the land: Who say, When will the new moon, pass away, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath that we may open grain? who diminish the ephah, and increase the shekel, and who falsify by deceitful weights: Who buy - for silver - the poor, and the needy for a pair of shoes, - and that the refuse of the grain we may sell.

Fine linen wraps, she maketh and selleth, and, girdles, doth she deliver to the trader:

And there passed by certain Midianites travelling merchants, so they drew forth and uplifted Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites, for twenty pieces of silver, - and they brought Joseph into Egypt.

She tasteth, whether, good, be her merchandise, and her lamp, goeth not out by night: Her hands, she putteth forth to the distaff, and, her palms, lay hold of the spindle: