Discovery Box| (1.00) | (Eze 27:15) | 1 tn Heb “sons of Dedan.” |
| (0.62) | (Gen 10:7) | 7 sn The name Dedan is associated with ʿUla in northern Arabia. |
| (0.35) | (Jer 25:23) | 1 sn Dedan and Tema are mentioned together in Isa 21:13-14 and located in the desert. They were in the northern part of the Arabian peninsula, south and east of Ezion Geber. Buz is not mentioned anywhere else, and its location is unknown. Judgment against Dedan and Tema is mentioned in conjunction with the judgment on Edom in Jer 49:7-8. |
| (0.31) | (Jer 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. |
| (0.25) | (Gen 25:3) | 1 sn The names Sheba and Dedan appear in Gen 10:7 as descendants of Ham through Cush and Raamah. Since these two names are usually interpreted to be place names, one plausible suggestion is that some of Abraham’s descendants lived in those regions and took names linked with it. |
