Isaiah 21:13

The burden upon Arabia The Oracle "In Arabia " (or, " In the evening "). The catchword of the heading is taken from the second word of the oracle. LXX. omits the title and in the text renders, with a different pointing, "in the evening," which gives a good sense (Psalms 30:5). The Massoretic reading may be translated "in Arabia" (Jeremiah 25:24) or "in the desert," although the word occurs nowhere else in this sense. Forestmust here mean either "scrub" or (like the corresponding Arab. wa-r) "rough, stony ground."

travelling companies caravans, as Genesis 37:25.

Dedanim Dedanites (R.V.). Dedan (Genesis 10:7; Genesis 25:3) was an important trading tribe of Arabia (Ezekiel 27:20; Ezekiel 38:13). Since it is mentioned in connexion with Edom (Jeremiah 49:8; Ezekiel 25:13), its possessions were probably somewhere near the north end of the Gulf of Akaba.