“The men of Dedan (LXX and some MSS have Rhodes, very similar in Hebrew, and see Ezekiel 27:20) traded with you, many coastlands were your markets (‘the market of your hand'),
They brought you in payment ivory tusks and ebony.”
The placing here among northern nations may suggest that we should read the island of Rhodes which was in an important position on the sea trade routes. In Ezekiel 27:20 Dedan is rightly placed in Arabia. In Hebrew r and d are easily confused, being almost identical. The Hebrew texts used by LXX may well have read an r. Or there may have been a Dedan in that area.