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Dedan was the son of Jokshan, 1Ch_1:32, from which it is probable that the city
Dedan had its name; it is reckoned, Jer_25:23, with Tema and Buz, and is mentioned Eze_27:15,20 38:13. It was a city of Arabia joining on Idumea, Isa_21:13. They being neighbours to the Edomites, are called to flee, and to get into caves and holes of the earth, where they might dwell deep in the earth, and be in some security, which they would not be in their own city, so near to the Edomites’ country, for God was resolved to bring misery upon the Edomites, a time of calamity in which he would visit them with his judgments. There are other critical readings of these words, but this seemeth to be the plain sense of them.