Verses with the word merchants in the Apocrypha (3 verses):
Baruch 3:23
The Agarenes that seek wisdom upon earth, the merchants of Meran and of Theman, the authors of fables, and searchers out of understanding; none of these have known the way of wisdom, or remember her paths.
1 Maccabees 3:41
And the merchants of the country, hearing the fame of them, took silver and gold very much, with servants, and came into the camp to buy the children of Israel for slaves: a power also of Syria and of the land of the Philistines joined themselves unto them.
2 Maccabees 8:34
As for that most ungracious Nicanor, who had brought a thousand merchants to buy the Jews,
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