“And as they sat down to eat a meal, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were carrying spices, balm, and myrrh on their way down to Egypt.”
Genesis 37:25
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Connection with Ishmael's descendants
These Ishmaelites descended from Abraham's son Ishmael, whose family appears all through the Old Testament. Job speaks of "The caravans of Tema" (Job 6:19), and a psalmist far from home groans, "I live among the tents of Kedar!" (Psalms 120:5). Tema and Kedar were two of Ishmael's sons.
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