Ishbak
Ishbak(Hebrew:יִשְׁבָּ֣קYīšbāq,"he will leave; leaving" ), also spelledJisbak[1]andJosabak,[2]was, according to theBible,the fifth son ofAbrahamandKeturah.[3][4]Ishbak had five brothers,Zimran,Jokshan,Medan,MidianandShuah.[5]
Josephus tells us that "Abraham contrived to settle them in colonies; and they took possession ofTroglodytisand the country ofArabia the Happy,as far as it reaches to theRed Sea."[6]Little else is known about him, but his descendants may be the people identified in a cuneiform inscription to a people known asJasbuqu.[7][neutralityisdisputed]
References
[edit]- ^Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, Hebrew Dictionary, 3435
- ^Josephus,Flavius,Antiquities,1.15.1
- ^Genesis 25:2–6
- ^1Chronicles 1:32
- ^Genesis 25:1–6
- ^Josephus, Flavius,Antiquities,1.15.1
- ^Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary, Volume 1,Review and Herald Publishing Association (Washington, D.C., USA), 1953, p.367
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