Dedan
Where Dedan sits on the map, and the 7 verses where it appears, in biblical order and linked to the full chapter.
- Identified with
- Al Khuraybah
- Coordinates
- 26.6500, 37.9167
- Mentions
- 7 mentions
Coordinates and the modern identification come from the open atlas at OpenBible.info. For regions, peoples and large features there is no identification: the marked point only places the area on the map, and stands for neither a particular site nor its boundaries.
Passages where it appears
7 verses, in biblical order.
Isaiah
- Isaiah 21:13
The burden in Arabia. In the forest you shall sleep, in the evening on the paths of Dedanim.
Jeremiah
- Jeremiah 25:23
and Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all those who have shaved off their hair,
- Jeremiah 49:8
Flee and turn your backs! Descend into the chasm, O inhabitants of Dedan! For I have brought the perdition of Esau over him, the time of his visitation.
Ezekiel
- Ezekiel 25:13
therefore, thus says the Lord God: I will extend my hand over Idumea, and I will take from it both man and beast, and I will make it desolate from the south. And those who are in Dedan will fall by the sword.
- Ezekiel 27:15
The sons of Dedan were your merchants. The many islands were the marketplace of your hand. They traded teeth of ivory and of ebony for your price.
- Ezekiel 27:20
The men of Dedan were your peddlers of tapestries used as seats.
- Ezekiel 38:13
Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, and all its lions will say to you: ‘Could you have arrived in order to purchase from the spoils? Behold, you have gathered your multitude in order to plunder a prey, so that you may take silver and gold, and carry away equipment and substance, and plunder immeasurable wealth.’