Dedan was thy merchant in precious cloths for chariots. Or, "cloths of freedom" u; 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

Ezekiel 27:15, and is either Dedan in Edom or Idumea, Jeremiah 49:8, or in Arabia, the inhabitants of which descended from Dedan, a grandson of Abraham, Genesis 25:3, which agrees with the following.

u בבגדי חפש "pannis libertatis", Vatablus, Piscator; "ingenuorem", Junius Tremellius. So Ben Melech, and R. Sol. Urbin. Ohel Moed, fol. 30. 2.

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