Gen 15:15, 25:8-17, 35:29, Heb 12:23 | TSK | STEP | And thou. in peace. buried. good.

Nebajoth.From Nebajoth sprang the Nabatheans, who inhabited Arabia Petraea; from Kedar, the Cedreans, who dwelt near the Nabatheans; and from Jetur, the Itureans, who inhabited a small tract of country east of Jordan, which afterwards belonged to Manasseh.

36:3; Isa 60:7

Kedar.

Ps 120:5; So 1:5; Isa 21:16,17; 42:11

Dumah.

Isa 21:11,16

Hadar. or, Hadad.More than 300 MSS. and printed editions read Hadad, as in 1 Ch 1:30.

Tema.

1Ch 5:19; Job 2:11

Naphish.These are evidently the same people mentioned in 1 Ch 5:19, who, with the Itureans, assisted the Hagarenes against the Israelites, but were overcome by the two tribes of Reuben and Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

castles.The word {tiroth,} rendered "castles," is supposed by some to denote here "towers," fortified rocks, or mountain-tops, and fastnesses of various kinds in woods and hilly countries; but it rather means, "shepherds' cots," surrounded by sufficient enclosures to prevent the cattle from straying, as the cognate Syriac word {teyaro,} and Arabic {tawar,} signify "a sheep-fold."

twelve.

17:20,23

A.M. 2231. B.C. 1773. these are.

7,8

gathered.

15:15