Isaiah 21:14 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁴The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled.

Isaiah 21:14 —

Old words in this verse

prevent: — go before, come ahead of.

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Cross-References

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Genesis 25:15
Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:
Job 6:19
The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.
Proverbs 25:21
If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink:
Romans 12:20
Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.
Judges 8:4-8
And Gideon came to Jordan, and passed over, he, and the three hundred men that were with him, faint, yet pursuing them. …

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Arabians Tema

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 13-17)

Arabia was a large country, that lay eastward and southward of the land of Canaan. Much of it was possessed by the posterity of Abraham. The Dedanim, here mentioned (Isa. 21:13), descended from Dedan, Abraham’s son by Keturah; the inhabitants of Tema and Kedar descended from Ishmael, Gen. 25:3, 13, 15. The Arabians generally lived in tents, and kept cattle, were a hardy people, inured to labour; p…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 14)

14. Tema--a kindred tribe: an oasis in that region (Jr 25:23). The Temeans give water to the faint and thirsting Dedanites; the greatest act of hospitality in the burning lands of the East, where water is so scarce. prevented--that is, anticipated the wants of the fugitive Dedanites by supplying bread (Ge 14:18). their bread--rather, “his (the fugitive’s) bread”; the bread due to him, necessary fo…