From Nave’s Topical Bible
Dumah
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 5Passages listed
- 4Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- 1. Son of IshmaelGenesis 25:141 Chronicles 1:30Isaiah 21:11Isaiah 21:12
- 2. A city of Canaan assigned to JudahJoshua 15:52
The passages, in Bible order (5)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 5 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Genesis 25:14
Mishma, Dumah, Massa,
Commentary on Genesis 25:142 voices
And Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa. Of Mishma and Massa, and of their posterity, there is not anything said elsewhere, unless the Masani, Ptolemy (p) places near Arabia Felix, came from Massa. Dumah seems to be the same Isaiah speaks of in Gen 21:11; and in Arabia Deserta, where some of Ishmael's posterity settled, is a place called Dumaetha, by Ptolemy (q), which perhaps had its name from this son of his.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa - Where the first and last of these settled is not known; but it is probable that Dumah gave his name to a place called Dumah in Arabia. See a prophecy concerning this place, Isa 21:11 (note), from which we find that it was in the vicinity of Mount Seir. These three names have passed into a proverb among the Hebrews, because of their signification. משמע mishma signifies Hearing; דומה dumah, Silence; and משא massa, Patience.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832Evangelical
- Joshua 15:52
Arab, Dumah, Eshan,
Commentary on Joshua 15:521 voice
Arab,.... Arab is the same Jerom (i) calls Ereb, and was in his time a village in the south, and was called Heromith: and Dumah; Duma, Jerom says (k), was a large village in the south, also on the borders of Eleutheropolis, seventeen miles from it: and Eshean, of which we have no account. (i) De loc. Heb. fol. 91. B. (k) Ibid. fol. 90. K.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- 1 Chronicles 1:30
Nebaioth the firstborn of Ishmael, then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam, Mishma, Dumah, Massa, Hadad, Tema,
Commentary on 1 Chronicles 1:302 voices
Hadad here and in 1Ch 1:50 is the well-known Syrian name, of which Hadar (margin) is an accidental corruption, consequent on the close resemblance between d (daleth) and r (resh) in Hebrew, the final letters of the two names.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical
We shall have little to say of the Midianites, who descended from Abraham's children by Keturah. They were children of the east (probably Job was one of them), and were separated from Isaac, the heir of the promise ( Gen. xxv. 6 ), and therefore they are only named here,
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710Puritan
- Isaiah 21:11
This is the burden against Dumah: One calls to me from Seir, “Watchman, what is left of the night? Watchman, what is left of the night?”
Commentary on Isaiah 21:112 voices
He - The people of Dumah, one of them in the name and by the appointment of the rest. Me - To the watchman: the prophet delivers his prophecy in the form of a dialogue between the people and the watchman. Seir - Out of Edom, which is frequently called Seir.
John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament, 1765Evangelical
VITRINGA thinks "Dumah," Hebrew, "silence," is here used for Idumea, to imply that it was soon to be reduced to silence or destruction. Seir--the principal mountain in Idumea, south of the Dead Sea, in Arabia-Petræa. "He calleth" ought to be rather, "There is a call from Seir." to me--Isaiah.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871Reformed
- Isaiah 21:12
The watchman replies, “Morning has come, but also the night. If you would inquire, then inquire. Come back yet again.”
Commentary on Isaiah 21:122 voices
(Verse 11, 12.) Oracle concerning Dumah. One calls to me from Seir: 'Watchman, what time of the night? Watchman, what time of the night?' The watchman says: 'Morning comes, and also the night. Seek if you will, inquire if you will, come.' For Dumah they set seventy idols, not over the entire Idumean province, but in a certain region that extends towards the south and is twenty miles distant from the city of Palestine, which is now called Eleutheropolis. Near it are the mountains of Seir, taking their name from Seir, the hairy and shaggy one, that is, Esau.
Jerome· Commentary on Isaiah, 420Patristic
The night - The night is past without any mischief, and the light of the morning is approaching; but tho' the morning is coming, it will be gone, and the night will return, and your fears with it.
John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament, 1765Evangelical