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John Gill's Exposition on Genesis 25:15
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Hadar and Tema, etc.] From the first of these the city Adra in Arabia Petraea, and from the other the city Themma in Arabia Deserta, both mentioned by Ptolemy f1384, may be thought to have their names; or the city Adari and the Athritae in Arabia Felix f1385; and the inhabitants of the land of Tema are mentioned as Arabians, (<232113>Isaiah 21:13,14); and Pliny f1386 speaks of a people called Thimaneans, whom he says the ancients joined to the Nabathaeans: the troops of Tema mentioned in Job were of this people, (<180619>Job 6:19); and Eliphaz the Temanite, (<180211>Job 2:11), is thought by some not to be the descendant of Teman the grandson of Esau, but to be of this man’s people and country. The three last sons follow: Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah; the two first of these are reckoned among the Hagarites, as the Ishmaelites were sometimes called, (<130519>1 Chronicles 5:19); from Jetur came the Itureans, whom Pliny f1387 places in Coelesyria; and their country Iturea is reckoned by Strabo f1388 along with Arabia; and the Ithyreans with Virgil f1389 are famous for their bows, as Ishmael and his posterity were for archery in all ages, and still are, (see Gill on “<012120>Genesis 21:20”). As for the posterity of Naphish and Kedomah, we have no account elsewhere, nor any traces of their names, unless those of the latter should be meant by the men of the east, or the men of Kedem, (<244928>Jeremiah 49:28), which is not improbable, since they are mentioned with the posterity of Kedar the second son of Ishmael; and the Nubaeans by Lebanon may be from Naphish.
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