John Gill Commentary Ezekiel 27:23

"Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traffickers of Sheba, Asshur [and] Chilmad, were thy traffickers." — Ezekiel 27:23 (ASV)

Haran, and Canneh, and Eden
Haran was a city of Mesopotamia, the same with Haran, where Abraham dwelt awhile, (Acts 7:2), the Charrae of the Parthians, famous for the defeat of Crassus. Canneh is thought to be the same with Calneh, (Genesis 10:10), afterwards called Ctesiphon; and here, by the Targum, Netzibin, a place not far from Tigris; and Eden also was between Tigris and Euphrates. All three places seem to be in Mesopotamia, and not far from each other; the latter is thought by some to be the place where the garden of Eden was.

The merchants of Sheba ; this was another Sheba, distinct from that in (Ezekiel 27:22), this Sheba was the son of Jokshan, a son of Abraham by Keturah, (Genesis 25:3), these were the Sabaeans, who were not far from the former, and dwelt near the Persian sea.

Ashur and Chilmad were your merchants ; or dealt in "your merchandise"; took goods of them. Ashur designs the Assyrians, who had their name from Ashur, the builder of Nineveh, (Genesis 10:11) and Chilmad is by the Targum rendered Media; and by Grotius thought to be the Gaala of Media in Ptolemy ^F2 ; and so Hillerus ^F3 takes it to be a city of Media.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F2: Geograph. l. 6. c. 2.
• F3: Onomastic. Sacr. p. 108.