Your mighty men, Teman, will be dismayed, to the end that everyone may be cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter.
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- KJV And thy mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end that every one of the mount of Esau may be cut off by slaughter.
- BSB Then your mighty men, O Teman, will be terrified, so that everyone in the mountains of Esau will be cut down in the slaughter.
- NKJV Then your mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, To the end that everyone from the mountains of Esau May be cut off by slaughter.
- NASB “Then your warriors will be filled with terror, Teman, So that everyone will be eliminated from the mountain of Esau by murder.
- NLT The mightiest warriors of Teman will be terrified, and everyone on the mountains of Edom will be cut down in the slaughter.
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Edom's warriors from Teman will be terrified, and the whole people will be cut off by slaughter.
Overview
With her wisdom gone, Edom's military strength also collapses, her mighty men paralyzed by fear. Teman, a prominent Edomite center, stands for the nation's finest, all of whom face being cut off. The verse shows that neither wisdom nor might can deliver a people set against God; deliverance comes only from him.
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- Isa 63:1–3Who is this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? Who this who is glorious in his clothing, marching in the greatness of his strength? “It is I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.”
- Amos 1:12but I will send a fire on Teman, and it will devour the palaces of Bozrah.”
- Ezek 25:13therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, I will stretch out my hand on Edom, and will cut off man and animal from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; even to Dedan shall they fall by the sword.
- Jer 49:22Behold, he will come up and fly as the eagle, and spread out his wings against Bozrah. The heart of the mighty men of Edom at that day will be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
- Gen 36:11The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz.
- Isa 34:5–8For my sword has drunk its fill in the sky. Behold, it will come down on Edom, and on the people of my curse, for judgment.
- Job 2:11Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.
- Jer 49:7Of Edom. Yahweh of Armies says: “Is wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished?
- Ps 76:5–6Valiant men lie plundered, they have slept their last sleep. None of the men of war can lift their hands.
- Obad 1:21Saviors will go up on Mount Zion to judge the mountains of Esau, and the kingdom will be Yahweh’s.
- Amos 2:16and he who is courageous among the mighty will flee away naked on that day,” says Yahweh.
- Isa 19:16–17In that day the Egyptians will be like women. They will tremble and fear because of the shaking of Yahweh of Armies’s hand, which he shakes over them.
- 1 Chr 1:45Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his place.
- Jer 50:36–37A sword is on the boasters, and they will become fools. A sword is on her mighty men, and they will be dismayed.
- Jer 49:20Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh, that he has taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely they will drag them away, the little ones of the flock. Surely he will make their habitation desolate over them.
- Nah 3:13Behold, your troops among you are women. The gates of your land are set wide open to your enemies. The fire has devoured your bars.
- Deut 2:5Don’t contend with them; for I will not give you any of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on; because I have given Mount Seir to Esau for a possession.
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