And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the desert,
Parallel translations
- WEB and all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mixed people who dwell in the wilderness;
- BSB all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mixed tribes who dwell in the desert;
- NKJV all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of the mixed multitude who dwell in the desert;
- NASB and to all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of the foreign people who live in the desert;
- NLT I gave it to the kings of Arabia, the kings of the nomadic tribes of the desert,
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All the kings of Arabia and the mixed desert peoples must drink the cup. The nomadic tribes of the wilderness share in God's wrath.
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The wide-ranging Arabian and desert-dwelling peoples are added to those who drink judgment. The sweep of the catalog leaves no region untouched. God's controversy with sin reaches even the scattered tribes of the wilderness, displaying His universal sovereignty.
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- 2 Chr 9:14Beside that which chapmen and merchants brought. And all the kings of Arabia and governors of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon.
- Jer 25:20And all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,
- Ezek 30:5Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the mingled people, and Chub, and the men of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword.
- Jer 50:37A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.
- Isa 21:13The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim.
- 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.
- 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.
- Gen 25:2–4And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.
- Ezek 27:21Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with thee in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these were they thy merchants.
- Gen 25:12–16Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s handmaid, bare unto Abraham:
- Gen 37:25–28And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
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