John Gill Commentary Ezekiel 27:22

"The traffickers of Sheba and Raamah, they were thy traffickers; they traded for thy wares with the chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold." — Ezekiel 27:22 (ASV)

The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were your merchants ,
&c.] This Sheba was the son of Raamah, (Genesis 10:7) who settled in Arabia Felix; where, according to Ptolemy ^F24 , is a city called Rhegma; and so Raamah is pronounced in the Septuagint version of (Genesis 10:7) :

they occupied in your fairs with chief of all spices ;
as with myrrh and frankincense, with which they abounded: Pliny ^F25 says that the Arabians paid annually to the kings of Persia a thousand talents of frankincense; and that the Sabaeans ^F26 boiled their food, some with wood of frankincense, and others with wood of myrrh:

and with all precious stones, and gold ;
as jaspers, emeralds, carbuncles, and others, which Pliny ^F1 says are found in Arabia; and mention is made of the gold of Sheba, (Psalms 72:15) and Bochart thinks that Ophir, from where the famous gold of that name was fetched, was in Arabia Felix; and it may be observed, that the queen of Sheba gave great quantities of gold, of spices, and of precious stones, to Solomon; and that he had much of these kinds yearly from the spice merchants, and kings of Arabia, (1 Kings 10:10 1 Kings 10:14 1 Kings 10:15) , (See Gill on Isaiah 60:6).

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FOOTNOTES:

• F24: Geograph. l. 6. c. 7.
• F25: Nat. Hist. l. 12. c. 17.
• F26: "----Solis est thurea virga Sabaeis". Virgil. Georgic. l. 2.
• F1: Nat. Hist. l. 37.