Difference between revisions of "Ishmael"

== American Tract Society Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_16355" /> ==

== American Tract Society Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_16355" /> ==

<p> 1. [[Genesis]] 16:1-16 21:1-34 , son of [[Abraham]] and Hagar, B. C. 1910. [[He]] was at first regarded as "the son of the promise;" but after the birth and weaning of [[Isaac]] he was driven from his father's house, at the age of about seventeen, and took with his mother the way to [[Egypt]] her native land. [[Overcome]] with heat and thirst, and then miraculously relieved, he remained in the wilderness of Paran, took a wife from Egypt, and was the father of twelve sons, heads of [[Arab]] tribes. He seems to have become on friendly terms with Isaac, and to have attended at the bedside of their dying father. At his own death, he was one hundred and thirty-seven years old, Genesis 25:9,17 . </p> <p> The Ishmaelites, his posterity, were said, in the days of Moses, to dwell "from [[Havilah]] unto [[Shur]] that is before Egypt," that is, in the northwestern part of Arabia. [[See]] HAVILAH 2. [[Subsequently]] they, with the descendants of Joktan, the fourth from Shem, Genesis 10:26-29 , and Jokshan, the son of Abraham by Keturah, Genesis 25:3 , and perhaps also of some of the brethren of [[Joktan]] and Jokshan, occupied the whole peninsula of Arabia. See Genesis 17:16 . The prediction also in Genesis 16:12 , has been fully verified in their history. [[Located]] near their "brethren" the Jews, they have always led a roving, wild, and predatory life. To a great degree unchanged, they are to this day the untamed though tributary masters of the desert. See [[Midianites]] . </p> <p> 2. A prince of Judah, who fled to the [[Ammonites]] when [[Jerusalem]] was destroyed by the Chaldeans. [[Soon]] after, he returned and assassinated [[Gedaliah]] the governor and many others; but was obliged to flee for his life, [[Jeremiah]] 40:1-41:18 . </p>

<p> 1. [[Genesis]] 16:1-16 21:1-34 , son of [[Abraham]] and Hagar, B. C. 1910. [[He]] was at first regarded as "the son of the promise;" but after the birth and weaning of [[Isaac]] he was driven from his father's house, at the age of about seventeen, and took with his mother the way to [[Egypt]] her native land. [[Overcome]] with heat and thirst, and then miraculously relieved, he remained in the wilderness of Paran, took a wife from Egypt, and was the father of twelve sons, heads of [[Arab]] tribes. He seems to have become on friendly terms with Isaac, and to have attended at the bedside of their dying father. At his own death, he was one hundred and thirty-seven years old, Genesis 25:9,17 . </p> <p> The Ishmaelites, his posterity, were said, in the days of Moses, to dwell "from [[Havilah]] unto [[Shur]] that is before Egypt," that is, in the northwestern part of Arabia. [[See]] HAVILAH 2. [[Subsequently]] they, with the descendants of Joktan, the fourth from Shem, Genesis 10:26-29 , and Jokshan, the son of Abraham by Keturah, Genesis 25:3 , and perhaps also of some of the brethren of [[Joktan]] and Jokshan, occupied the whole peninsula of Arabia. See Genesis 17:16 . The prediction also in Genesis 16:12 , has been fully verified in their history. [[Located]] near their "brethren" the Jews, they have always led a roving, wild, and predatory life. To a great degree unchanged, they are to this day the untamed though tributary masters of the desert. See [[Midianites]] . </p> <p> 2. A prince of Judah, who fled to the [[Ammonites]] when [[Jerusalem]] was destroyed by the Chaldeans. [[Soon]] after, he returned and assassinated [[Gedaliah]] the governor and many others; but was obliged to flee for his life, [[Jeremiah]] 40:1-41:18 . </p>