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Ishmael was born to Abraham's mistress.Hagar at Mamre.(a place midway between Jerusalem and Beersheba), when Abraham was eighty six years of age, eleven years after his arrival in Canaan. Ishmael was the beginning of the Arab nations.

Abraham had another son, called.Midian, his fourth son, this son by Keturah.(1Chronicles 1:32,33):.Genesis 25:1-4. Her sons were the ancestors of many Arabian tribes:.Genesis 15:19-21. Through the offshoots of the.Hagar.and.Keturah.line came many Arab nations and in this way Abraham became the."father of many nations":.Genesis 17:4; Romans 4:17. About the Midianites.
At the age of thirteen Ishmael was circumcised. He grew up a true child of the desert, wild and wayward.

On the occasion of the weaning of Abraham's son Isaac, Ishmael's rude and wayward spirit broke out in expressions of insult and mockery:.Genesis 21:9,10. He obviously was one having what's called mankind.(kinda like man).genes. Sarah, Abraham's wife, discovering this, said to Abraham "Expel this slave and her son".

Influenced by a divine admonition, Abraham dismissed Hagar and her son with no more than a skin of water and some bread. The narrative describing this act is one of the most touching incidents of patriarchal life:.Genesis 21:1-21.

Ishmael settled in the land of Paran, a region lying between Canaan and the mountains of Sinai:.Deuteronomy 33:2. He became a great desert chief, but of his history little is recorded. He was about ninety years of age when his father Abraham died, in connection with whose burial he once more for a moment reappears.

On this occasion the two brothers met after being long separated. Isaac with his hundreds of household servants, Ishmael with his troops of wild retainers and half-savage allies, in all, the state of a Bedouin prince gathered before the cave of Machpelah, in the midst of the men of Heth to pay the last duties to Abraham, the 'father of the faithful':.Romans 4:12. Of the after events of his life but little is known.

Ishmael died at the age of one hundred and thirty seven years, but where and when are unknown:.Genesis 25:17,18.

He had twelve sons, who became the founders of so many Arab tribes and colonies and into full nations.


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