Zedad
(mountain side), one of the landmarks on the north border of the land of Israel, as Promised by Moses, (Numbers 34:8) and as restored by Ezekiel. (Ezekiel 47:15) A place named Sudud exists to the east of the northern extremity of the chain of Anti-Libanus, about fifty miles east-northeast of Baalbec . This may be identical with Zedad.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia on Zedad
Zedad ze'-dad (tsedhadhah, only found with He locale; Samaritan tseradhah; Septuagint Saradak, Sadadak, Saddak): A town or district named in Nu 34:8; Eze 47:15 as on the ideal northern boundary of Israel. The uncertainty of the reading has led to two different identifications being proposed. The form "Zerad" was accepted by yon Kasteren, and his identification was Khirbet Serada in the Merj `Ayun, West of the Hasbany branch of the Jordan and North of `Abil. This identification, however, would compel us to draw the ideal boundary along the Qasmiyeh valley and thence eastward to Hermon, and that is much too far South If with Dillmann, Wetzstein, Muehlau and others we read "Zedad," then it is clearly identical with Sadad, a village on the road between Ribleh and Qaryetain. It has been objected that Sadad is too far to the East; but here, as in the tribal boundaries also, the references are rather to the district or lands possessed than to their central town or village. ⇒See a list of verses on ZEDAD in the Bible. W. M. Christie ⇒See also the McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible on Zedad
One of the points mentioned in defining the Northern border of the Promised Land in Nu 34', and again in Ezekiel's ideal picture, Ezk 47'^. The reading is uncertain, the Sam. having in Numbers mns ; LXX in Numbers, B and Luc. ZapddaK, A Zadd3aK, F 2d5daK ; in Ezekiel, BA ^(Xda/jifia. If the reading lis is followed, the site ia unknown ; for, as Dillmann points out, the Sadad, on the road from Riblah to ^iaryaten (accepted by Wetzstein, Miihlau, Furrer, et al.), is much too far to the east and north. If we read tim, as we should probably do, the place may perhaps be identified (so van Kasteren, RB, 1895, p. oU) with Khirbet Seradd, N. of Abil, E. of Merj 'Ajdn, towards Hermon. ZEDEKIAH (5n;p-ix, .i.-p-is only in 1 K 22", Jer 27''- '28' '29^ ' righteousness of J" ' ; LX.\ i:eoeKii, -(3eKLat, ZeSeKioii ; A'^ulg. Sedecias). — 1. Son of Chenaanah, and one of Ahab's four hundred court prophets (1 K 22'i- "•^- ==, 2 Ch W- ^- "). When Jehoshaphat demanded that a prophet of J" should be consulted about the proposed expedition to Kamotli-gilead, Zedekiah came forward in that character in order…
Fausset's Bible Dictionary on Zedad
A landmark on the N. of Israel (Num 24:8; Eze 47:15). Grove conjectures the present Sudud, E. of the N. end of Antilibanus, 50 miles E.N.E. of Baalbek.
References
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