Jeremiah 49:8

49:8 Turn and flee! Take up refuge in remote places, ¹ 

you people who live in Dedan. ² 

For I will bring disaster on the descendants of Esau.

I have decided it is time for me to punish them. ³ 

Genesis 10:7

10:7 The sons of Cush were Seba, ⁴  Havilah, ⁵  Sabtah, ⁶  Raamah, ⁷  and Sabteca. ⁸  The sons of Raamah were Sheba ⁹  and Dedan. ¹⁰ 

Genesis 22:21

22:21 Uz the firstborn, his brother Buz, Kemuel (the father of Aram), ¹¹ 

Genesis 25:15

25:15 Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.

Genesis 25:1

The Death of Abraham

25:1 Abraham had taken ¹²  another ¹³  wife, named Keturah.

Genesis 1:30

1:30 And to all the animals of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to all the creatures that move on the ground – everything that has the breath of life in it – I give ¹⁴  every green plant for food.” It was so.

Job 6:19

6:19 The caravans of Tema ¹⁵  looked intently ¹⁶  for these streams; ¹⁷ 

the traveling merchants ¹⁸  of Sheba hoped for them.

Isaiah 21:13-14

The Lord Will Judge Arabia

21:13 Here is a message about Arabia:

In the thicket of Arabia you spend the night,

you Dedanite caravans.

21:14 Bring out some water for the thirsty.

You who live in the land of Tema,

bring some food for the fugitives.

Ezekiel 25:13

25:13 So this is what the sovereign Lord says: I will stretch out my hand against Edom, and I will kill the people and animals within her, ¹⁹  and I will make her desolate; from Teman to Dedan they will die ²⁰  by the sword.

Ezekiel 27:20

27:20 Dedan was your client in saddlecloths for riding.

[49:8]  ¹ tn Heb “make deep to dwell.” The meaning of this phrase is debated. Some take it as a reference for the Dedanites who were not native to Edom to go down from the heights of Edom and go back home (so G. L. Keown, P. J. Scalise, T. G. Smothers, Jeremiah 26-52 [WBC], 330). The majority of commentaries, however, take it as a reference to the Dedanites disassociating themselves from the Edomites and finding remote hiding places to live in (so J. A. Thompson, Jeremiah [NICOT], 718). For the options see W. L. Holladay, Jeremiah (Hermeneia), 2:375.

[49:8]  ² sn Dedan. The Dedanites were an Arabian tribe who lived to the southeast of Edom. They are warned here to disassociate themselves from Edom because Edom is about to suffer disaster.

[49:8]  ³ tn Heb “For I will bring the disaster of Esau upon him, the time when I will punish him.” Esau was the progenitor of the tribes and nation of Edom (cf. Gen 36:1, 8, 9, 19).

[10:7]  ⁴ sn The descendants of Seba settled in Upper Egypt along the Nile.

[10:7]  ⁵ sn The Hebrew name Havilah apparently means “stretch of sand” (see HALOT 297 s.v. חֲוִילָה). Havilah’s descendants settled in eastern Arabia.

[10:7]  ⁶ sn The descendants of Sabtah settled near the western shore of the Persian Gulf in ancient Hadhramaut.

[10:7]  ⁷ sn The descendants of Raamah settled in southwest Arabia.

[10:7]  ⁸ sn The descendants of Sabteca settled in Samudake, east toward the Persian Gulf.

[10:7]  ⁹ sn Sheba became the name of a kingdom in southwest Arabia.

[10:7]  ¹⁰ sn The name Dedan is associated with àUla in northern Arabia.

[22:21]  ¹¹ sn This parenthetical note about Kemuel’s descendant is probably a later insertion by the author/compiler of Genesis and not part of the original announcement.

[25:1]  ¹² tn Or “took.”

[25:1]  ¹³ tn Heb “And Abraham added and took.”

[1:30]  ¹⁴ tn The phrase “I give” is not in the Hebrew text but has been supplied in the translation for clarification.

[6:19]  ¹⁵ sn Tema is the area of the oasis SE of the head of the Gulf of Aqaba; Sheba is in South Arabia. In Job 1:15 the Sabeans were raiders; here they are traveling merchants.

[6:19]  ¹⁶ tn The verb נָבַט (navat) means “to gaze intently”; the looking is more intentional, more of a close scrutiny. It forms a fine parallel to the idea of “hope” in the second part. The NIV translates the second verb קִוּוּ (qivvu) as “look in hope.” In the previous verbs the imperfect form was used, expressing what generally happens (so the English present tense was used). Here the verb usage changes to the perfect form. It seems that Job is narrating a typical incident now – they looked, but were disappointed.

[6:19]  ¹⁷ tn The words “for these streams” are supplied from context to complete the thought and make the connection with the preceding context.

[6:19]  ¹⁸ tn In Ps 68:24 this word has the meaning of “processions”; here that procession is of traveling merchants forming convoys or caravans.

[25:13]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “and I will cut off from her man and beast.”

[25:13]  ²⁰ tn Heb “fall.”