Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who cut the corners of their hair;
Parallel translations
- WEB Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all who have the corners of their beard cut off;
- KJV Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that are in the utmost corners,
- NKJV Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who are in the farthest corners;
- NASB and to Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who trim the corners of their hair;
- NLT I gave it to Dedan, Tema, and Buz, and to the people who live in distant places.
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Quick answer
Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who clip the corners of their beards must drink. Various Arabian tribes are included in the judgment.
Overview
The list continues with remote desert peoples, identified partly by a distinctive grooming custom. Even obscure and distant tribes are accountable to the LORD. The thoroughness of the enumeration reinforces that God's judgment encompasses all nations without exception.
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Cross-references · 11
- Jer 9:26Egypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, Moab, and all the inhabitants of the desert who clip the hair of their temples. For all these nations are uncircumcised, and the whole house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart.”
- Jer 49:8Turn and run! Lie low, O dwellers of Dedan, for I will bring disaster on Esau at the time I punish him.
- Jer 49:32Their camels will become plunder, and their large herds will be spoil. I will scatter to the wind in every direction those who shave their temples; I will bring calamity on them from all sides,” declares the LORD.
- Job 6:19The caravans of Tema look for water; the travelers of Sheba hope to find it.
- Gen 22:21Uz the firstborn, his brother Buz, Kemuel (the father of Aram),
- Isa 21:13–14This is the burden against Arabia: In the thickets of Arabia you must lodge, O caravans of Dedanites.
- 1 Chr 1:30Mishma, Dumah, Massa, Hadad, Tema,
- Ezek 27:20Dedan was your merchant in saddlecloths for riding.
- Gen 10:7The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
- Ezek 25:13therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I will stretch out My hand against Edom and cut off from it both man and beast. I will make it a wasteland, and from Teman to Dedan they will fall by the sword.
- Gen 25:15Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.
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