they sat: Esther 3:15; Psalms 14:4; Proverbs 30:20; Amos 6:6
Ishmeelites: Genesis 37:28, Genesis 37:36, Genesis 16:11-12, Genesis 25:1-4, Genesis 25:16-18, Genesis 31:23; Psalms 83:6
Gilead: Genesis 31:21, Genesis 43:11; Jeremiah 8:22
spicery: Nechoth:, is rendered by the LXX "incense;" Syriac, "resin;" Samaritan, "balsam;" Acquila, "storax;" which is followed by Bochart. This drug is abundant in Syria, and here Moses joins with it resin, honey, and myrrh; which agrees with the nature of the storax, which is the resin of a tree of the same name, of a reddish colour, and peculiarly pleasant fragrance.
balm: Tzeri:, which in Arabic, as a verb, is to flow, seems to be a common name, as balm or balsam with us, for many of those oily, resinous substances, which flow spontaneously, or by incision, from various trees or plants; accordingly the ancients have generally interpreted it resin.
myrrh: Lot:, is probably, as Junius, Deut. Dieu, Celsius, and Ursinus contend, the same as the Arabic ladan:, Greek λαδανον:, and Latin ladanum:.