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Genesis 37:25
And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
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Ezekiel 27:20,21
Dedan was your merchant in precious clothes for chariots.
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The Nations of the South-East
... The Hebrew of Palestine doubtless included it in the country of "the children
of the East.". ... The Ishmaelites were merchants and traders. ...
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The First Chaldaean Empire and the Hyksos in Egypt
... over the province of Kadima, a word which in Semitic denotes the East. ... the seaboard,
taking to piracy when hard pressed; Egyptian merchants were accustomed to ...
/.../chapter ithe first chaldaean empire.htm

Scriptural Poems; Being Several Portions of Scripture Digested ...
... their camels lading, From Gilead came, and were to Egypt ... d by me, Let's sell him
to these Ishmaelites, for he ... the pit they hale, And to these merchants offer'd ...
/.../scriptural poems being several portions.htm

Subtopics

Ishmaelites

Ishmaelites: Called Midianites

Ishmaelites: Enemies to Israel

Ishmaelites: Merchants of, Buy Joseph

Ishmaelites: Region Occupied By

The Ishmaelites were the Merchants of the East

The Ishmaelites: Called: Arabians

The Ishmaelites: Called: Hagarenes

The Ishmaelites: Called: Hagarites

The Ishmaelites: Descended from Abraham's Son, Ishmael

The Ishmaelites: Divided Into Twelve Tribes