Gen 25:2-4, 12-16, 37:25-28, Jer 25:20, 49:28-33, 50:37, Eze 30:5 | TSK | STEP | A.M. cir. 2152. B.C. cir. 1852. she bare. Zimri. Midian. Shuah.

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

Genesis 37:25-28

they sat.

Es 3:15; Ps 14:4; Pr 30:20; Am 6:6

Ishmeelites.

28,36; 16:11,12; 25:1-4,16-18; 31:23; Ps 83:6

Gilead.

31:21; 43:11; Jer 8:22

spicery.{Nechoth,} is rendered by the LXX. "incense;" Syriac, "resin;" Samaritan, "balsam;" Acquila, "storax;" which is followed by Bochart. This drug is abundant in Syria, and here Moses joins with it resin, honey, and myrrh; which agrees with the nature of the storax, which is the resin of a tree of the same name, of a reddish colour, and peculiarly pleasant fragrance.

balm{Tzeri,} which in Arabic, as a verb, is to flow, seems to be a common name, as balm or balsam with us, for many of those oily, resinous substances, which flow spontaneously, or by incision, from various trees or plants; accordingly the ancients have generally interpreted it resin.

myrrh.{Lot,} is probably, as Junius, De Dieu, Celsius, and Ursinus contend, the same as the Arabic {ladan}, Greek [ladanon,] and Latin {ladanum}.

What profit.

25:32; Ps 30:9; Jer 41:8; Mt 16:26; Ro 6:21

conceal.

20; 4:10; De 17:8; 2Sa 1:16; Job 16:18; Eze 24:7

sell him.

22; Ex 21:16,21; Ne 5:8; Mt 16:26; 26:15; 1Ti 1:10; Re 18:13

let not.

1Sa 18:17; 2Sa 11:14-17; 12:9

he is our.

29:14; 42:21

were content. Heb. hearkened.

Midianites.

25; 25:2; Ex 2:16; Nu 25:15,17; 31:2,3,8,9; Jud 6:1-3; Ps 83:9

Isa 60:6

sold.

45:4,5; Ps 105:17; Zec 11:12,13; Mt 26:15; 27:9; Ac 7:9

Jeremiah 25:20

the mingled.

24; 50:37; Ex 12:38; Eze 30:5

Uz.

Ge 10:23; 22:21; 1Ch 1:17; Job 1:1; La 4:21

Philistines.

47:1-7; Eze 25:15-17; Am 1:6-8; Zep 2:4-7; Zec 9:5-7

Ashkelon.

1Sa 6:17

Askelon, Gaza. remnant.

Isa 20:1; Am 1:8; Ne 13:23-27

Jeremiah 49:28-33

Kedar.

2:10; Ge 25:13; 1Ch 1:29; So 1:5; Isa 21:13,16,17; 42:11; Eze 27:21

Hazor.

30,33

Arise.

14,31; 50:14-16; Isa 13:2-5

spoil.

Ge 25:6; Jud 6:3; Job 1:3; Isa 11:14

tents.

Ps 120:5; Isa 13:20; 60:7

curtains.

4:20; 10:20; Hab 3:7

camels.

Ge 37:25; Jud 6:5; 7:12; 8:21,26; 1Ch 5:20,21; Job 1:3

Fear.

24; 6:25; 20:3,4; *marg:

46:5; Ps 31:13; 2Co 4:8; 7:5

get you far off. Heb. flit greatly. dwell.

for.

25:9,24,25; 27:6; Isa 10:7

wealthy nations. or, nation that is at ease.

48:11; Ps 123:4; Isa 32:9,11

that.

Jud 18:7-10,27; Isa 47:8; Eze 30:9; 38:11; 39:6; Na 1:12; Zep 2:15

which dwell.

Nu 23:9; De 33:28; Jud 18:28; Mic 7:14

their camels.

I will scatter.

36; De 28:64; Eze 5:10,12; 12:14,15

in the utmost corners. Heb. cut off into corners, or, thathave the corners of their hair polled.

9:26; 25:23; *margins

Hazor.Hazor as well as Kedar, with which it is joined, (ver. 28,) was no doubt situated in Arabia, and a place of considerable importance; but it is now no more, and its very name seems to have perished.

a dwelling.

17,18; 9:11; 10:22; 50:39,40; 51:37; Isa 13:20-22; 14:23; 34:9-17

Zep 2:9,13-15; Mal 1:3; Re 18:2,21,22