Genesis 25:16
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New International Version (©2011)
These were the sons of Ishmael, and these are the names of the twelve tribal rulers according to their settlements and camps.

New Living Translation (©2007)
These twelve sons of Ishmael became the founders of twelve tribes named after them, listed according to the places they settled and camped.

English Standard Version (©2001)
These are the sons of Ishmael and these are their names, by their villages and by their encampments, twelve princes according to their tribes.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
These are the sons of Ishmael and these are their names, by their villages, and by their camps; twelve princes according to their tribes.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their towns, and by their castles; twelve princes according to their nations.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
These are Ishmael's sons, and these are their names by their villages and encampments: 12 leaders of their clans.

International Standard Version (©2012)
These were Ishmael's children, listed by their names according to their villages and their camps. There were a total of twelve tribal chiefs, according to their clans.

NET Bible (©2006)
These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names by their settlements and their camps--twelve princes according to their clans.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
These are the sons of Ishmael and their names listed by their settlements and camps-12 leaders of their tribes.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their towns, and by their encampments; twelve princes according to their nations.

American King James Version
These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their towns, and by their castles; twelve princes according to their nations.

American Standard Version
These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their villages, and by their encampments. Twelve princes according to their nations.

Douay-Rheims Bible
These are the sons of Ismael: and these are their names by their castles and towns, twelve princes of their tribes.

Darby Bible Translation
These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, in their hamlets and their encampments twelve princes of their peoples.

English Revised Version
these are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their villages, and by their encampments; twelve princes according to their nations.

Webster's Bible Translation
These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their towns, and by their castles; twelve princes according to their nations.

World English Bible
These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their villages, and by their encampments: twelve princes, according to their nations.

Young's Literal Translation
these are sons of Ishmael, and these their names, by their villages, and by their towers; twelve princes according to their peoples.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

25:11-18 Ishmael had twelve sons, whose families became distinct tribes. They peopled a very large country that lay between Egypt and Assyria, called Arabia. The number and strength of this family were the fruit of the promise, made to Hagar and to Abraham, concerning Ishmael.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 16. - These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their towns, - unwalled encampments, from hatzar, to surround; used of the movable villages of nomadic tribes (cf. Isaiah 42:11) - and by their castles; - fortified keeps (Murphy); tent villages (Keil); nomadic camps (Kalisch). Cf. Numbers 31:10; 1 Chronicles 6:39; Psalm 69:26; Ezekiel 25:4) - twelve princes - this does not imply that Ishmael had only twelve sons, like Israel - a very suspicious circumstance (De Wette); but only that these twelve became phylarchs (Havernick). The Egyptian dedecarchy rested on a like earlier division of names. Homer mentions a similar case among the Phoenicians (Odyss., 8. 390); Thucydides another in ancient Attica (2. 15); vide Havernick's 'Introch,' § 18 - according to their nations (or tribe divisions).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

These are the sons of Ishmael,.... The twelve before mentioned, Genesis 25:13,

these are their names, by their towns and by their castles; their towns and their castles being called after their names, some of which we are able to trace at this distance, as the above notes show:

twelve princes according to their nations; these were princes, or heads of tribes, and there were twelve of them, and continued so, see Genesis 17:20; where is the prophecy, and here an accomplishment of it.

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The Descendants of Ishmael
…15Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah: 16These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their towns, and by their castles; twelve princes according to their nations. 17And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, an hundred and thirty and seven years: and he gave up the ghost and died; and was gathered to his people.

Genesis 17:20 And as for Ishmael, I have heard you: I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and will greatly increase his numbers. He will be the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation.
Genesis 25:15 Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish and Kedemah.
Numbers 31:10 They burned all the towns where the Midianites had settled, as well as all their camps.
1 Chronicles 6:54 These were the locations of their settlements allotted as their territory (they were assigned to the descendants of Aaron who were from the Kohathite clan, because the first lot was for them):