Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that are in the utmost corners,
Parallel translations
- WEB Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all who have the corners of their beard cut off;
- BSB Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who cut the corners of their hair;
- 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, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.
- Jer 49:8Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I will visit him.
- Jer 49:32And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter into all winds them that are in the utmost corners; and I will bring their calamity from all sides thereof, saith the LORD.
- Job 6:19The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.
- Gen 22:21Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram,
- Isa 21:13–14The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim.
- 1 Chr 1:30Mishma, and Dumah, Massa, Hadad, and Tema,
- Ezek 27:20Dedan was thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots.
- Gen 10:7And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtechah: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.
- Ezek 25:13Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also stretch out mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword.
- Gen 25:15Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:
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