The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were thy merchants,.... This Sheba was the son of Raamah, Ge 10:7 who settled in Arabia Felix; where, according to Ptolemy , is a city called Rhegma; and so Raamah is pronounced in the Septuagint version of Ge 10:7:they occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices; as with myrrh and frankincense, with which they abounded: Pliny says that the Arabians paid annually to the kings of Persia a thousand talents of frankincense; and that the Sabaeans 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 says are found in Arabia; and mention is made of the gold of Sheba, Ps 72:15 and Bochart thinks that Ophir, from whence 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, 1Ki 10:10,See Gill on "Isa 60:6".
Geograph. l. 6. c. 7. Nat. Hist. l. 12. c. 17. "----Solis est thurea virga Sabaeis". Virgil. Georgic. l. 2. Nat. Hist. l.