John Gill's Exposition on Ezekiel 27:20

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Dedan was thy merchant in precious cloths for chariots.] Or, “cloths of freedom”f471; such as freemen and even nobles wore; and yet so extravagant were the Tyrians, that they bought these to line or cover their chariots with; this is different from the Dedan in (<262715>Ezekiel 27:15), and is either Dedan in Edom or Idumea, (<244908>Jeremiah 49:8), or in Arabia, the inhabitants of which descended from Dedan, a grandson of Abraham, (<012503>Genesis 25:3), which agrees with the following.

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