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  2. Extinct Arabs - Wikipedia

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    The Extinct Arabs (Arabic: عرب بائدة, al-Arab al-Ba'ida) or the Perished Arabs, are the tribes of Arabia that are no longer existent in today's world and have no surviving descendants. The origins and history of such tribes are obscure, although tales from them have been narrated by historians and scholars from later periods of time.

  3. Midian - Wikipedia

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    The World around the Old Testament: The People and Places of the Ancient Near East. Baker Academic. pp. 417– 466. ISBN 978-1-4934-0574-9. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "Midian and Midianites". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.

  4. Kenite hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    The Kenites, like Cain, were nomadic. The Kenites were metalworkers, a science which the Book of Genesis states the descendants of Cain invented. Immediately after Cain is expelled to the wilderness by Yahweh for Abel's murder, the biblical narrative states that in the times of the children of Adam and Eve's new son, Seth , people began to call ...

  5. Midian, son of Abraham - Wikipedia

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    According to the Hebrew Bible, Midian (Hebrew: מִדְיָן Miḏyān) is the fourth son of Abraham and Keturah, [1] the woman Abraham married after Sarah's death. His brothers are Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Ishbak and Shuah.

  6. Kenites - Wikipedia

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    According to the Hebrew Bible, the Kenites/Qenites (/ ˈ k iː n aɪ t / or / ˈ k ɛ n aɪ t /; Hebrew: קֵינִי ‎, romanized: Qēni) were a tribe in the ancient Levant. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] They settled in the towns and cities in the northeastern Negev in an area known as the "Negev of the Kenites" near Arad , and played an important role in the ...

  7. Numbers 31 - Wikipedia

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    Poole on the other hand affirms the connection between the Midianites and Moabites but argues that the Moabites were spared due to being descendants of Lot. Alternatively, he argues that the Midianites sinned more egregiously than the Moabites in the Peor incident, thus warranting their extermination. [ 29 ]

  8. Shuaib - Wikipedia

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    It is said they were a wandering tribe, and that their principal territory at the time of Moses was the Sinai Peninsula. According to the Book of Genesis, the Midianites were the descendants of Midian, a son of Abraham and his wife Keturah: "Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah.

  9. Gideon - Wikipedia

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    Gideon (/ ˈ ɡ ɪ d i ə n /; Hebrew: גִּדְעוֹן, Modern: Gīdʿōn, Tiberian: Gīḏəʿōn) also named Jerubbaal [a] and Jerubbesheth, [b] [1] was a military leader, judge and prophet whose calling and victory over the Midianites are recounted in Judges 6–8 of the Book of Judges in both the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Bible.