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Jokshan was the father of Sheba and Dedan. Dedan’s descendants were the Asshurites, Letushites, and Leummites.

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Jokshan was the father of Sheba(A) and Dedan;(B) the descendants of Dedan were the Ashurites, the Letushites and the Leummites.

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13 Therefore, says the Sovereign Lord, I will raise my fist of judgment against Edom. I will wipe out its people and animals with the sword. I will make a wasteland of everything from Teman to Dedan.

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13 therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will stretch out my hand(A) against Edom and kill both man and beast.(B) I will lay it waste, and from Teman(C) to Dedan(D) they will fall by the sword.(E)

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20 “Dedan sent merchants to trade their expensive saddle blankets with you.

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20 “‘Dedan(A) traded in saddle blankets with you.

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They carved your oars
    from the oaks of Bashan.
Your deck of pine from the coasts of Cyprus[a]
    was inlaid with ivory.

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Footnotes

  1. 27:6 Hebrew Kittim.

Of oaks(A) from Bashan
    they made your oars;
of cypress wood[a] from the coasts of Cyprus(B)
    they made your deck, adorned with ivory.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 27:6 Targum; the Masoretic Text has a different division of the consonants.

Turn and flee!
    Hide in deep caves, you people of Dedan!
For when I bring disaster on Edom,[a]
    I will punish you, too!

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Footnotes

  1. 49:8 Hebrew Esau; also in 49:10.

Turn and flee, hide in deep caves,(A)
    you who live in Dedan,(B)
for I will bring disaster on Esau
    at the time when I punish him.

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23 I gave it to Dedan, Tema, and Buz, and to the people who live in distant places.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 25:23 Or who clip the corners of their hair.

23 Dedan,(A) Tema,(B) Buz(C) and all who are in distant places[a];(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 25:23 Or who clip the hair by their foreheads

19 The caravans from Tema search for this water;
    the travelers from Sheba hope to find it.

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19 The caravans of Tema(A) look for water,
    the traveling merchants of Sheba(B) look in hope.

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Visit of the Queen of Sheba

10 When the queen of Sheba heard of Solomon’s fame, which brought honor to the name of the Lord,[a] she came to test him with hard questions.

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Footnotes

  1. 10:1 Or which was due to the name of the Lord. The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.

The Queen of Sheba Visits Solomon(A)

10 When the queen of Sheba(B) heard about the fame(C) of Solomon and his relationship to the Lord, she came to test Solomon with hard questions.(D)

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10 The western kings of Tarshish and other distant lands
    will bring him tribute.
The eastern kings of Sheba and Seba
    will bring him gifts.

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10 May the kings of Tarshish(A) and of distant shores(B)
    bring tribute to him.
May the kings of Sheba(C) and Seba
    present him gifts.(D)

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There he proclaimed Ishbosheth king over Gilead, Jezreel, Ephraim, Benjamin, the land of the Ashurites, and all the rest of Israel.

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He made him king over Gilead,(A) Ashuri(B) and Jezreel, and also over Ephraim, Benjamin and all Israel.(C)

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