The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim.
Parallel translations
- WEB The burden on Arabia. In the forest in Arabia you will lodge, you caravans of Dedanites.
- BSB This is the burden against Arabia: In the thickets of Arabia you must lodge, O caravans of Dedanites.
- NKJV The burden against Arabia. In the forest in Arabia you will lodge, O you traveling companies of Dedanites.
- NASB The pronouncement about Arabia: In the thickets of Arabia you must spend the night, You caravans of Dedanites.
- NLT This message came to me concerning Arabia: O caravans from Dedan, hide in the deserts of Arabia.
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Quick answer
An oracle concerning Arabia pictures caravans driven to lodge in the wilderness. It matters because it foretells disruption and danger coming upon the Arabian trade routes.
Overview
The 'burden on Arabia' addresses the Dedanite caravans forced to take refuge in the desert thickets. The image suggests flight and insecurity rather than the safety of established routes. Even the prosperous trading peoples of Arabia fall within God's announced judgments. It signals that the coming upheaval will reach far and wide.
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- Jer 25:23–24Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that are in the utmost corners,
- 1 Chr 1:32Now the sons of Keturah, Abraham’s concubine: she bare Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan; Sheba, and Dedan.
- Ezek 27:15The men of Dedan were thy merchants; many isles were the merchandise of thine hand: they brought thee for a present horns of ivory and ebony.
- Gen 25:3And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.
- Gal 4:25For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
- Isa 13:1The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
- 1 Kgs 10:15Beside that he had of the merchantmen, and of the traffick of the spice merchants, and of all the kings of Arabia, and of the governors of the country.
- Ezek 27:20–21Dedan was thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots.
- 1 Chr 1:9And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raamah, and Sabtecha. And the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.
- Jer 49:28–33Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon shall smite, thus saith the LORD; Arise ye, go up to Kedar, and spoil the men of the east.
- Isa 13:20It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.
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