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When Abraham sent the sons of Hagar and Keturah “away from Isaac his son...eastward, unto the east country” (Gen.25:6), he was sending them to their cousins, the descendants of Eber through Joktan, who had been established in Arabia for more than two centuries. According to Unger’s Bible Dictionary, all of the thirteen sons of Joktan became heads of tribes which settled in Arabia. Havilah was one of them, and when Moses wrote the Book of Genesis he mentioned the land of Havilah: “where there is gold; and the gold of that land is good” (Gen.2:11-12). He also stated that “bdellium and the onyx stone” were to be found there (Gen.2:12). Ophir was another of Joktan’s sons, and we know that the goldfields at Ophir were located in southern Arabia, now Yemen. Servants of Solomon and Hiram sent ships to the goldfields at Ophir and brought 450 talents of gold for the Temple (2Chron.8:18). Sheba was a son of Joktan, and Abraham also had a grandson named Sheba. Archeologists have established that the kingdom of Sheba, 85 The Russian/Muslim Alliance
The Basics of Bible Prophecy namely the Sabaeans, who took Job’s oxen (Job 1:15), were well established in Arabia. The Queen of Sheba, who was described by the Lord as “the queen of the south”(Matt.12:42), came by camel with a great company to witness the wisdom of Solomon. She brought “spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones” (2Chron.9:1). We may safely say that over the past 4,000 years the sons of Abraham to Hagar and Keturah have mingled with the descendants of Joktan and now comprise the Arab people. Jeremiah refers to the “kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the desert”(Jer.25:24). The secular history of the Arabs, recorded by Josephus in the first century and by Greek and Roman historians, describes the original dwellers of Arabia in the main as nomadic people living in tents and refusing to be involved in agriculture or construction of cities. For this reason they have left few records. The Rechabites referred to in Jeremiah chapter 35 appear to have been Arabs (Nabataeans), for they were faithful to their father who commanded them: “Ye shall drink no wine, neither ye, nor your sons for ever: neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any: but all your days ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers” (Jer.35:6-7). It seems there were three types of Arabs who made up the Nabatu kingdom and were known as Nabataeans. All were traders. In the south of Arabia there was the kingdom of Sheba (Sabaeans) that engaged in trade as far afield as India and China, and imported spices, frankincense, myrrh, animals, ivory, pearls, cotton, ginger, cinnamon, sugar, medicines, gold and silk (Ezek.27:20-22). The seafaring Nabataeans were well known in the Red Sea as pirates who plundered commercial vessels. The desert Nabataeans took the imported goods northward by camel train to the western markets of Tyre, where they were transhipped to Greece and Rome (Ezek.27:20-22). The northern Nabataeans settled in the land of Edom after 586BC when Nebuchadnezzar’s armies swept through as foretold by Ezekiel (Ezek.25:12-14). Nabataeans replaced the Edomites and established a city called Rekem or Rekmu, which was renamed by the Romans, Petra. Its narrow entrance extends for over a kilometre and is no more than a few metres wide. This remarkable city carved out of the rock became a trading metropolis, and was so famous that mention of it is found in ancient Chinese writings. 86
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