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Dedan
Town or city mentioned in 7 verses of the Bible, most often in Ezekiel.
Where it appears
Ezekiel (4), Jeremiah (2), Isaiah (1)
Key verses
- Isaiah 21:13 first mention — The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim.
- Jeremiah 25:23 — Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that are in the utmost corners,
- Jeremiah 49:8 — Flee 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.
- Ezekiel 25:13 — Therefore 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.
- Ezekiel 27:15 — The 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.
- Ezekiel 27:20 — Dedan was thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots.
- Ezekiel 38:13 — Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?
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