14The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled.
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Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:
The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.
If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink:
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.
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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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 labou…
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