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DEDAN.—A north Arabian people, according to Gen_10:7 descended from Cush, and according to Gen_25:3 from Abraham through Keturah. The combination is not difficult to understand when we remember the Arabian affiliations of the Cushites (cf. Isa_21:13). In Eze_25:13 Dedan is placed almost within the Edomite territory, which it must have bordered on the southeast (cf. Jer_25:23; Jer_49:8). The Dedanites were among the Arabian peoples who sent their native wares to the markets of Tyre (Eze_27:20). In Eze_27:15 read ‘Rodan’ (Rhodians) for ‘Dedan.’
J. F. McCurdy.