BRAHMAN: THE DISCOVERY OF THE GOD OF ABRAHAM: M. M. NINAN The descendants of Abraham and Keturah from Genesis 25 http://coatofmanycolors.net/2013/06/16/keturah-andabrahams-other-children/ Six children of Keturah distributed all over this region. 35
BRAHMAN: THE DISCOVERY OF THE GOD OF ABRAHAM: M. M. NINAN Mystic Arabia By Sri Gregory Alexander aka. Ananda writes: “..................In the Young’s Literal Translation, we read that Abraham sent the sons of Keturah “eastward, unto the east country” (Gen 25:6), Because Abrahma was originally from Ur of the Chaldeans, further East is India. Although Midan, the son of Keturah, is usually associated with Ishmael in Arabia (Gen 37:28), of all of Abraham’s children through Keturah the son Joksan, the father of Sheba and Dedan, would indicate a migration in the direction of India. According to scholarly research, the descendants of Shem, through Joktan, were placed by God in India after the tower of Babel (Gen 10-11). In Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible we read, “The Arabs say....that several of the sons of Joktan went to India”. Using this as our reference point, we can go and look for clues that would associate any Keturah’s off-spring to Joktan. In comparing the sons of Shem in Genesis 10 to the sons of Keturah in Gen 25 we read: Sons of Keturah Keturah ......bore him ....Jokshan ......(and) Jokshan begot Sheba and Dedan......Abraham sent them eastward, away from Isaac his son, to the country of the east (Gen 25:1-6)..... To Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg, for his days the earth was divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan. Joktan begot ... Sheba (and) Ophir.... And their dwelling place Notice an interesting correlation, for Keturah has a son named Jokshan who begot a son named Sheva, and similar to this, Shem had a descendant named Joktan who had also begotten a son named Sheba. Remember, scholars believe that Joktan, from the line of Shem “went into India”, and in the Orthodox Jewish Bible, translated by Artists for Israel International, both the sons here named Sheba in English are translated from the Hebrew as “Sheva”” Alice Linsley http://jandyongenesis.blogspot.com/2008/10/abrahams-first-born-son.html “Following the custom of his Horite forefathers, Abraham had two wives. Sarah was his halfsister wife and Keturah was his patrilineal cousin wife. Isaac ascended to the throne of Abraham as the firstborn of the sister wife and Joktan ruled in the territory of his maternal grandfather, after whom he was named. Though Isaac ruled after Abraham, he was not the first son born to Abraham. Jews insist that Isaac was Abraham's firstborn son while Muslims insist that Ishmael was Abraham's firstborn son. Risking the anger of both Jews and Muslims, my guess, based on the evidence of Scripture, is that Joktan was the first in the birth order of Abraham's nine sons. This means that he was likely born before Sarah conceived Isaac and before Sarah attempted to gain a son by using Hagar as a surrogate. So who was Abraham's first-born son? My guess is Joktan, the first-born of Keturah, and that Abraham acquired Keturah as a wife when he went to the Negev (Gen. 12:9) after consulting the Seer at Shechem (Gen. 12:6). 36