Isaiah 21:13

The word about Arabia. In the thick woods of Arabia will be your night's resting-place, O travelling bands of Dedanites!

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In The King James Version

The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim.

In Context

12The watchman says, The morning has come, but night is still to come: if you have questions to put, put them, and come back again.

14Give water to him who is in need of water; give bread, O men of the land of Tema, to those in flight.

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Cross References

1 Kings 10:15In addition to what came to him from the business of the traders, and from all the kings of the Arabians, and from the rulers of the country.

1 Chronicles 1:32And the sons of Keturah, Abraham's servant-wife: she was the mother of Zimran and Jokshan and Medan and Midian and Ishbak and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.

Isaiah 13:20People will never be living in it again, and it will have no more men from generation to generation: the Arab will not put up his tent there; and those who keep sheep will not make it a resting-place for their flocks.

Jeremiah 25:24And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mixed people living in the waste land;

Jeremiah 49:28About Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, overcame. This is what the Lord has said: Up! go against Kedar, and make an attack on the children of the east.

Ezekiel 27:20Dedan did trade with you in cloths for the backs of horses.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 21:12-13

The Watchman Interrogated. ( b. c. 714.) 11 The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night? 12 The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come. This prophecy concerning Dumah is very short, and withal dark and hard to be understood. Some think that Dumah is a part of Arabia, and that the inhabitants descended from Dumah the sixth son of Ishmael, as those of Kedar ( v. 16, 17 ) from Ishmael's second… Read the whole commentary →

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