Jokshan became the father of Sheba, and Dedan. The sons of Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim.
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Jokshan became the father of Sheba, and Dedan. The sons of Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim.
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And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.
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And Jokshan begot Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.
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- Ezekiel 25:13 therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “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. They will fall by the sword even to Dedan.
- 1 Kings 10:1 When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning Yahweh’s name, she came to test him with hard questions.
- Job 6:19 The caravans of Tema looked. The companies of Sheba waited for them.
- Jeremiah 25:23 Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who have the corners of their beard cut off;
- Jeremiah 49:8 Flee! Turn back! Dwell in the depths, inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau on him when I visit him.
- Ezekiel 27:6 They have made your oars of the oaks of Bashan. They have made your benches of ivory inlaid in cypress wood from the islands of Kittim.
- Ezekiel 27:20 “ ‘ “Dedan was your trafficker in precious cloths for riding.
- 2 Samuel 2:9 and he made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel.
- Psalms 72:10 The kings of Tarshish and of the islands will bring tribute. The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 25:3 And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And…
Gen 25:3 And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And Jokshan begat Sheba and Dedan,.... Bochart (o) is…
And Jokshan begat Sheba and Dedan,.... Bochart (o) is of opinion, that the posterity of this Sheba are the same with the Sabeans who inhabited at the entrance of Arabia Felix, not far from the Nabathaeans; and who, by Strabo (p), are mentioned together as near to Syria, and used to make excursions on their neighbours; and not without some colour of reason thought to be the same that plundered Job of his cattle, Job 1:15. From Dedan came the Dedanim or Dedanites, spoken of with the Arabians in Isa 21:13; Junius thinks Adada in Palmyrene of Syria had its name from this man, and in which country is the mountain Aladan or Alladadan. Bochart (q) more probably takes Dedan, a city in Idumea, to derive its name from him. There is a village called Adedi in the country of the Cassanites, a people of Arabia Felix, which Ptolemy (r) makes mention of, and seems to have some appearance of this man's name:
and the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim; these names being plural are thought not to be proper names of men, but appellatives, descriptive of their places of abode, or of their business: hence the Targum of Onkelos represents them as such that dwelt in camps, in tents, and in islands; and the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem call them merchants, artificers and heads of the people: however, Cleodemus (s) the Heathen historian is wrong in deriving Assyria from Asshurim, whom he calls Ashur; since Assyria and Assyrians are so called from Ashur, the son of Shem, Gen 10:22.
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(o) Phaleg. l. 2. c. 9. col. 227. (p) Geograph. l. 16. p. 536. (q) Phaleg. l. 4. c. 6. col. 219. (r) Ut supra. (Geograph. l. 6. c. 7.) (s) Apud Euseb. ut supra. (Praepar. Evangel. 9. c. 20. p. 432.)
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 3. Sheba] From whom sprang the Sabeans, who…
Verse 3. Sheba] From whom sprang the Sabeans, who robbed Job of his cattle. See Bochart and Calmet.
Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.] We know not who these were, but as each name is plural they must have been tribes or families, and not individuals. Onkelos interprets these words of persons dwelling in camps, tents, and islands; and Jonathan ben Uzziel calls them merchants, artificers, and heads or chiefs of people.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 3. Sheba … Dedan] These places have already been…
3. Sheba … Dedan] These places have already been mentioned by P in a different connexion (Gen_10:7). The identity of the names illustrates the fact, that there were different Israelite traditions explaining the relation of the different members of the Hebrew-speaking families.
Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim] These plural names are noticeable as obviously denoting, not individuals, but peoples. The Asshurim are probably to be connected with the “Asshur” (R.V. “Assyria”) of Psa_83:8, and possibly with the mention of Asshur in the present chapter (Gen_25:18) and in Num_24:22. In both instances, an allusion to obscure tribes on the Arabian borders of Palestine is more suitable than to the Assyrian empire.
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Ephah] Cf. Isa_60:6, “the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah,” a passage confirming the probability that the present group of names is Arabian.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (3) Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan.—But Sheba and Dedan…
(3) Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan.—But Sheba and Dedan are also described as the sons of Raamah, the son of Cush (Gen_10:7). We have here proof that these genealogies are to a certain extent geographical, and that whereas these districts at first were peopled by a Hamitic race, they were subsequently conquered by men of the Semitic stock, who claimed Abraham for their ancestor. Most probably, therefore, we ought not to regard Sneba and Dedan as the names here of men. As men they were the sons of Raamah, but when the sons of Jokshan wrested these two countries from the family of Cush, they called them sons of their progenitor, because the dominant portion of the population had sprung from him. They appear as countries in Jer_6:20; Jer_49:8; Eze_25:13; Eze_27:15; Eze_27:22; Eze_38:13, &c.
Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.—These are certainly not the names of men, but of the three tribes into which the Dedanites were divided.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And Jokshan begat Sheba, probably the Sabeans: (Job_1:15 Job_6:19)…
And Jokshan begat Sheba, probably the Sabeans: (Job_1:15 Job_6:19) (Keil) and Dedan probably the trading people mentioned. (Jer_25:23) (Keil) And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, who have been associated with the warlike tribe of the Asir, to the south of Hejas (Keil)and Letu-shim, the Bann Leits in Hejas (Keil)and Leummim the tribe Bann Lam, which extended even to Babylon and Mesopotamia (Keil).
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 25:3 Sheba and Dedan: Cp. 10:7. Abraham’s descendants probably…
25:3 Sheba and Dedan: Cp. 10:7. Abraham’s descendants probably settled in these regions and became identified by their names, along with people of other lineage.
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