Abraham lived for thirty-eight years after taking Isaac up Mount Moriah. At some point, we are not sure exactly when, Abraham took another wife, Keturah. I recognize these kinds of details are painfully boring and dry but there is a point to it all, mostly in correcting our understanding of biblical history. Keturah was a Canaanite. Sarah and Hagar had died and I suppose Abraham was lonely. Josephus puts the information of Abraham taking Keturah as a wife before Isaac married Rebekah. But the bible and the book of Jasher don’t mention Keturah until after Rebekah comes from Haran. Yet there were three years between the Mount Moriah incident and Isaac marrying Rebekah, making it possible for Abraham to marry Keturah at that time. Remember Abraham left Isaac with Shem and Eber for three years. Now this certainly mixes things up. I don’t believe I’ve ever heard a church service on Abraham and Keturah’s children. In fact most people argue with me because they don’t believe this story is in their bible. It is, but it is just not preached. What is more interesting is that now Abraham’s seed is mixed with the Canaanites. So the descendents of the Nephilim are now mixed with Abraham. While Isaac married from Abraham’s line, Abraham himself married an Egyptian and a Canaanite as well as his brother Harans’ daughter Sarah.
I would say that it is God’s plan not to worry about the mixing of families or nationalities. This again seems to be a theme of the Melchizedek Priesthood. Today if people want to point out how pure their lineage is to a particular nationality or race, one might mention that that is not necessarily the plan of God. I think what we misunderstand is the Levitical laws. Then there are some that don’t recognize the age of the Holy Spirit, where anyone can receive and be saved, they believe there are rules and laws and that one would have to be born a certain nationality to qualify as sons and daughters of God.
Jubilees 19:11. And Abraham took to himself a third wife, and her name was Keturah, from among the daughters of his household servants, for Hagar had died before Sarah. 12. And she bare him six sons, Zimram, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah, in the two weeks of years.
Josehpus 15.HOW THE NATION OF THE TROGLODYTES WERE DERIVED FROM ABRAHAM BY KETURAH
Josephus 15:1 Abraham after this married Keturah, by whom six sons were born to him, men of courage, and of sagacious minds: Zambran, and Jazar, and Madan, and Madian, and Josabak, and Sous. Now the sons of Sous were Sabathan and Dadan. The sons of Dadan were Latusim, and Assur, and Luom. The sons of Madiau were Ephas, and Ophren, and Anoch, and Ebidas, and Eldas. Now, for all these sons and grandsons, Abraham contrived to settle them in colonies; and they took possession of Troglodytis, and the country of Arabia the Happy, as far as it reaches to the Red Sea. It is related of this Ophren, that he made war against Libya, and took it, and that his grandchildren, when they inhabited it, called it (from his name) Africa. And indeed Alexander Polyhistor gives his attestation to what I here say; who speaks thus: "Cleodemus the prophet, who was also called Malchus, who wrote a History of the Jews, in agreement with the History of Moses, their legislator, relates, that there were many sons born to Abraham by Keturah: nay, he names three of them, Apher, and Surim, and Japhran. That from Surim was the land of Assyria denominated; and that from the other two (Apher and Japbran) the country of Africa took its name, because these men were auxiliaries to Hercules, when he fought against Libya and Antaeus; and that Hercules married Aphra's daughter, and of her he begat a son, Diodorus; and that Sophon was his son, from whom that barbarous people called Sophacians were denominated."
Abraham’s sons colonized what we know today as Saudi Arabia, Yemen, southern parts of Egypt, parts of eastern Africa such as Somalia, Sudan, Ethiopia, and then eventually Libya. They also settled in Syria, Jordan, and western Assyria as well. The Troglodytes were known as cave dwellers who mixed with the Greeks and Romans in later times in the region of the African Deserts, along the African side of the Red Sea. Troglodyate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troglodytae
Jasher 25:1And it was at that time that Abraham again took a wife in his old age, and her name was Keturah, from the land of Canaan.2And she bare unto him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak and Shuach, being six sons. And the children of Zimran were Abihen, Molich and Narim.3And the sons of Jokshan were Sheba and Dedan, and the sons of Medan were Amida, Joab, Gochi, Elisha and Nothach; and the sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Chanoch, Abida and Eldaah.4And the sons of Ishbak were Makiro, Beyodua and Tator.5And the sons of Shuach were Bildad, Mamdad, Munan and Meban; all these are the families of the children of Keturah the Canaanitish woman which she bare unto Abraham the Hebrew.6And Abraham sent all these away, and he gave them gifts, and they went away from his son Isaac to dwell wherever they should find a place.
Abraham valued his sons enough to give them gifts, before sending them away. Not mentioned was that Abraham taught all his sons the ways of the Lord as we can see people who were not of Isaac but knew the Lord in later times, such as Jethro.
Jasher 25:7And all these went to the mountain at the east, and they built themselves six cities in which they dwelt unto this day.8But the children of Sheba and Dedan, children of Jokshan, with their children, did not dwell with their brethren in their cities, and they journeyed and encamped in the countries and wildernesses unto this day.9And the children of Midian, son of Abraham, went to the east of the land of Cush, and they there found a large valley in the eastern country, and they remained there and built a city, and they dwelt therein, that is the land of Midian unto this day.
We may remember that Moses went to Midian, became a ruler there and took a wife from Midian while he was in exile from Egypt. Jethro, his father-in-law, was a priest unto God.
Jasher 25:10And Midian dwelt in the city which he built, he and his five sons and all belonging to him.11And these are the names of the sons of Midian according to their names in their cities, Ephah, Epher, Chanoch, Abida and Eldaah.12And the sons of Ephah were Methach, Meshar, Avi and Tzanua, and the sons of Epher were Ephron, Zur, Alirun and Medin, and the sons of Chanoch were Reuel, Rekem, Azi, Alyoshub and Alad.13And the sons of Abida were Chur, Melud, Kerury, Molchi; and the sons of Eldaah were Miker, and Reba, and Malchiyah and Gabol; these are the names of the Midianites according to their families; and afterward the families of Midian spread throughout the land of Midian.
JETHRO (his excellence) was priest or prince of Midian. Moses married his daughter Zipporah. ( B.C. 1530.) On account if his local knowledge he was entreated to remain with the Israelites throughout their journey to Canaan. Num 10:31,33. (He is called REUEL in Ex 2:18. And RAGUEL in Num 10:29, The same word in the original for both). Reuel is probably his proper name, and Jethro his official title. — ED.)(from Smith's Bible Dictionary, PC Study Bible formatted electronic database Copyright © 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc. All rights reserved.)
Jethro was also known as Reuel, son of Chanoch, son of Midian, three generations from Abraham. I am sure if one took the time to research all these people in their native lands and tongues, we would find many historical treasures about Abraham’s family.
Jasher 25:14And these are the generations of Ishmael the son Abraham, whom Hagar, Sarah's handmaid, bare unto Abraham.15And Ishmael took a wife from the land of Egypt, and her name was Ribah, the same is Meribah.16And Ribah bare unto Ishmael Nebayoth, Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam and their sister Bosmath.17And Ishmael cast away his wife Ribah, and she went from him and returned to Egypt to the house of her father, and she dwelt there, for she had been very bad in the sight of Ishmael, and in the sight of his father Abraham.18And Ishmael afterward took a wife from the land of Canaan, and her name was Malchuth, and she bare unto him Nishma, Dumah, Masa, Chadad, Tema, Yetur, Naphish and Kedma.19These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, being twelve princes according to their nations; and the families of Ishmael afterward spread forth, and Ishmael took his children and all the property that he had gained, together with the souls of his household and all belonging to him, and they went to dwell where they should find a place.20And they went and dwelt near the wilderness of Paran, and their dwelling was from Havilah unto Shur, that is before Egypt as thou comest toward Assyria.
Jasher 25:21And Ishmael and his sons dwelt in the land, and they had children born to them, and they were fruitful and increased abundantly.22And these are the names of the sons of Nebayoth the first born of Ishmael; Mend, Send, Mayon; and the sons of Kedar were Alyon, Kezem, Chamad and Eli.23And the sons of Adbeel were Chamad and Jabin; and the sons of Mibsam were Obadiah, Ebedmelech and Yeush; these are the families of the children of Ribah the wife of Ishmael.24And the sons of Mishma the son of Ishmael were Shamua, Zecaryon and Obed; and the sons of Dumah were Kezed, Eli, Machmad and Amed.25And the sons of Masa were Melon, Mula and Ebidadon; and the sons of Chadad were Azur, Minzar and Ebedmelech; and the sons of Tema were Seir, Sadon and Yakol.26And the sons of Yetur were Merith, Yaish, Alyo, and Pachoth; and the sons of Naphish were Ebed-Tamed, Abiyasaph and Mir; and the sons of Kedma were Calip, Tachti, and Omir; these were the children of Malchuth the wife of Ishmael according to their families.27All these are the families of Ishmael according to their generations, and they dwelt in those lands wherein they had built themselves cities unto this day.
These people were all multiplying and moving around while Rebecca was barren; therefore the sons of Abraham and Keturah were older than Isaac’s children when Esau and Jacob finally came along even though Isaac was about forty when they were all born. Ishmael’s children were all almost as old as Isaac and they all had children before Jacob and Esau were born.
Jasher 25:28And Rebecca the daughter of Bethuel, the wife of Abraham's son Isaac, was barren in those days, she had no offspring; and Isaac dwelt with his father in the land of Canaan; and the Lord was with Isaac; and Arpachshad the son of Shem the son of Noah died in those days, in the forty-eighth year of the life of Isaac, and all the days that Arpachshad lived were four hundred and thirty-eight years, and he died.
Arpachshad http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arpachshad
Arphaxad son of Shem, born the year after the Deluge. He died at the age of 438 years (Gen 11:10-13; 1 Chron 1:17,18; Luke 3:36). He dwelt in Mesopotamia, and became, according to the Jewish historian Josephus, the progenitor of the Chaldeans. The tendency is to recognize in the word the name of the country nearest the ancient domain of the Chaldeans. Some regard the word as an Egypticized form of the territorial name of Ur Kasdim, or Ur of the Chaldees. (from Easton's Bible Dictionary, PC Study Bible formatted electronic database Copyright © 2003, 2006 Biblesoft, Inc. All rights reserved.)
Gen 25:1-12 Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah.2 And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.3 And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.4 And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.5 And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac.6 But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.7 And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.8 Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.9 And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre;10 The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth: there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.11 And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed his son Isaac; and Isaac dwelt by the well Lahai-roi.12 Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bare unto Abraham:KJV
It is easy to see how integrated people groups are, there are no pure peoples and since the flood people moved and lived in many different places. The son’s of Abraham from Keturah have their names spelled differently in various `texts; here is the breakdown of what we can find in the biblical research of these men.
Jubilees: Zimram, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, Shuah
Josephus: Zambran, Jazar, Madan, Madian, Josabak, Sous
Jasher: Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak Shuach
Genesis: Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, Shuah
Zimran (celebrated), the eldest son of Keturah. Gen 25:2; 1 Chron 1:32. His descendants are not mentioned, nor is any hint given that he was the founder of a tribe. ( B.C. 1855.)(from Smith's Bible Dictionary, PC Study Bible formatted electronic database Copyright © 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc. All rights reserved.) MRAN
Zimran — vine-dressers; celebrated, one of the sons of Abraham by Keturah (Gen 25:2).(from Easton's Bible Dictionary, PC Study Bible formatted electronic database Copyright © 2003, 2006 Biblesoft, Inc. All rights reserved.)
Jokshan (fowler), a son of Abraham and Keturah, Gen 25:2,3; 1 Chron 1:32, whose sons were Sheba and Dedan.(from Smith's Bible Dictionary, PC Study Bible formatted electronic database Copyright © 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc. All rights reserved.)
Medan (contention), a son of Abraham and Keturah. Gen 23:5; 1 Chron 1:42.(from Smith's Bible Dictionary, PC Study Bible formatted electronic database Copyright © 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc. All rights reserved.)
Midian (strife), a son of Abraham and Keturah, Gen 25:2; 1 Chron 1:32, progenitor of the Midianites, or Arabians dwelling principally in the desert north of the peninsula of Arabia. Southward they extended along the eastern shore of the Gulf of Eyleh (Sinus Aelaniticus); and northward they stretched along the eastern frontier of Palestine. The "land of Midian," the place to which Moses fled after having killed the Egyptian, Ex 2:15,21, or the portion of it specially referred to, was probably the peninsula of Sinai. The influence of the Midianties on the Israelites was clearly most evil, and directly tended to lead them from the injunctions of Moses. The events at Shittim occasioned the injunction to vex Midian and smite them. After a lapse of some years, the Midianites appear again as the enemies of the Israelites, oppressing them for seven years, but are finally defeated with great slaughter by Gideon. [GIDEON] The Midianites are described as true Arabs, and possessed cattle and flocks and camels as the sand of the seashore for multitude. The spoil taken in the war of both Moses and of Gideon is remarkable. Num 31:22; Judg 8:21,24-26. We have here a wealthy Arab nation, living by plunder, delighting in finery; and, where forays were impossible, carrying ont he traffic southward into Arabia, the land of gold — if not naturally, by trade — and across to Chaldea, or into the rich plains of Egypt.(from Smith's Bible Dictionary, PC Study Bible formatted electronic database Copyright © 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc. All rights reserved.)
Midian [MID ee un] — the name of a man and a territory in the Old Testament:1. A son of Abraham by his concubine Keturah (Gen 25:1-6). Midian had four sons (1 Chron 1:33). No other information about him is recorded in the Bible.2. The land inhabited by the descendants of Midian. Situated east of the Jordan River and the Dead Sea, the land stretched southward through the Arabian desert as far as the southern and eastern parts of the peninsula of Sinai.(from Nelson's Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Copyright © 1986, Thomas Nelson Publishers)
Ishbak(left behind), a son of Abraham and Keturah, Gen 25:2; 1 Chron 1:32, and the progenitor of a tribe of northern Arabia. ( B.C. after 1856.)(from Smith's Bible Dictionary, PC Study Bible formatted electronic database Copyright © 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc. All rights reserved.)
Ishbak [ISH bak] (free) - a son of Abraham by Keturah (Gen 25:2). Ishbak was probably the ancestor of a northern Arabian tribe.(from Nelson's Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Copyright © 1986, Thomas Nelson Publishers)
Shuah (wealth).1. Son of Abraham by Keturah. Gen 25:2; 1 Chron 1:32.) ( B.C. before 1820.)2. Properly Shuchah brother of Chelub. 1 Chron 4:11.3. The father of Judah's wife, Gen 38:2,12, called also Shua in the Authorized Version. ( B.C. before 1725.)(from Smith's Bible Dictionary, PC Study Bible formatted electronic database Copyright © 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc. All rights reserved.)
Shuah — prostration; a pit. (1.) One of Abraham's sons by Keturah (Gen 25:2; 1 Chron 1:32). (2.) 1 Chron 4:11.(from Easton's Bible Dictionary, PC Study Bible formatted electronic database Copyright © 2003, 2006 Biblesoft, Inc. All rights reserved.)
These are the meanings of the names of Abraham’s sons as from above they are quite descriptive as to what we see today of the people from those areas.
Zimran celebrated, vinedresser
Jokshan fowler
Medan contention
Midian strife
Ishbak free, left behind
Shuah wealth, prostration
Now let’s look at the definitions of Abraham’s sons’ names as per Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary. If names are prophetic, as we looked at in Genesis Chapter 5, then these are the prophetic characteristics of these people.
Zimran song, singer, vine
Jokshan an offence, hardness, knocking
Medan judgment, process
Midian judgment, covering, habit
Ishbak who is empty or exhausted
Shuah ditch, swimming, humiliation
(from Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary, PC Study Bible formatted electronic database Copyright © 2003, 2006 Biblesoft, Inc. All rights reserved.)
Here is a bit more information on Jokshans’ sons.
Sheba one of the towns of the allotment of Simeon, Josh 19:2, probably the same as Shema. Josh 15:26.(seven, or all oath).1. A son of Raamah son of Cush. Gen 10:7; 1 Chron 1:9.2. A soil of Joktan. Gen 10:28; 1 Chron 1:22.3. A son of Jokshan son of Keturah. Gen 25:3; 1 Chron 1:32. We shall consider, first, the history of the Joktanite Sheba; and secondly, the Cushite Sheba and the Keturahite Sheba together.I. The Joktanites were among the early colonists of southern Arabia, and the kingdom which they there founded was for many centuries called the kingdom of Sheba, after one of the sons of Joktan. The visit of the queen of Sheba to King Solomon. 1 Kings 10:1, is one of the familiar Bible incidents. The kingdom of Sheba embraced the greater part of the Yemen, or Arabia Felix. It bordered on the Red Sea, and was one of the most fertile districts of Arabia. Its chief cities, and probably successive capitals, were Seba, San'a (Uzal), and Zafar (Sephar). Seba was probably the name of the city, and generally of the country and nation.II. Sheba, son of Raamah son of Cush settled somewhere on the shores of the Persian Gulf. It was this Sheba that carried on the great Indian traffic with Palestine, in conjunction with, as we hold, the other Sheba, son of Jokshan son of Keturah, who like Dedan appears to have formed, with the Cushite of the same name, one tribe.(from Smith's Bible Dictionary, PC Study Bible formatted electronic database Copyright © 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc. All rights reserved.)
Dedan, [DEE dun] (low) - the name of two men and a geographical region in the Bible:1. A descendant of Cush (Gen 10:7; 1 Chron 1:9).2. A son of Jokshan and a grandson of Abraham and Keturah (Gen 25:3; 1 Chron 1:32).3. A district near Edom and the Dead Sea (Jer 25:23; Ezek 25:13; 27:15).(from Nelson's Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Copyright © 1986, Thomas Nelson Publishers)
Dedan — low ground. (1.) A son of Raamah (Gen 10:7). His descendants are mentioned in Isa 21:13, and Ezek 27:15. They probably settled among the sons of Cush, on the north-west coast of the Persian Gulf.(2.) A son of Jokshan, Abraham's son by Keturah (1 Chron 1:32). His descendants settled on the Syrian borders about the territory of Edom. They probably led a pastoral life.(from Easton's Bible Dictionary, PC Study Bible formatted electronic database Copyright © 2003, 2006 Biblesoft, Inc. All rights reserved.)
Now let’s put this all together. Abraham had eight sons in total that moved and lived in the Arabian Peninsula, Africa, Egypt, North, South and East of Israel. That is a lot of people and a lot of territory. Who was living in the land Abraham’s son’s moved into? Mostly the Hamites, as well as Shemites, that was the land allotted to them by Noah.
What did these people look like? The Hamites were dark skinned dark, smooth haired people. According to Zondervan’s Pictorial Bible Dictionary, (“Zondervan’s Pictorial Bible Dictionary”, Merrill C Tenney, General Editor, Copyright1963,1964,1967, by Zondervan All rights reserved.)
Ham1. The youngest son of Noah, born probably a out 96 years before the Flood; and the one of the eight persons to live through the Flood. He became the progenitor of the dark races; not the Negroes, but the Egyptians, Ethiopians, Libyans and Canaanites (Gen10:6-20). His indecency, when his father lay drunken, brought a curse upon Canaan (Gen9:20-27).
2.A City of the Zuzim, E of the Jordan (Gen 14:5). This is not the same word as the son of Noah.
3The descendents of the original Ham (Ps 78:51;105:23;106:22). In these passages “Ham” is used as another mane for Egypt as representing Ham’s principal descendants.
We see that distinctive physical characteristics of the Hamites. Now let’s look at Shem from Zondervans’. (“Zondervan’s Pictorial Bible Dictionary”, Merrill C Tenney, General Editor, Copyright1963,1964,1967, by Zondervan All rights reserved.)
Shem second son of Noah, and progenitor of the Semitic race, was born 98 years before the Flood (Gen 11:10) and lived six hundred years, out living his descendants for nine generation excepting Eber and Abraham. In the racial prophecy Noah made after the event of his drunkenness (Gen 9:25-27), he mentions “Jehovah, God of Shem.” The three great monotheistic religions, Judaism Christianity, and Islam, all had Semitic origins, and Noah added concerning Japheth that his descendants would “dwell in the tents of Shem,” indicating that the Aryan peoples to a large extent have derived their civilization form the Semites. In the “Table of Nations”(Gen 10) Shem is given five sons, of whom Arpachshad (KJV ”Arphaxad”) was clearly an individual and the others are peoples of progenitors of peoples: e.g. “Lud” refers to the Lydians in Asia Minor, “Elam” points to the Elamites who lived E of the Tigris river; “Aram” means the Aramaeans of Syrians who lived in Syria and Mesopotamia nsd “Asshur” is Assyria. Scoffer pointed out a century ago that “Asshur” is mentioned also in the Hamite list (10:11), but Semitic ruins of Assyrian cities. Shem, Ham and Japeth probably differed only as brothers do, but their descendants are quite distinct.
Now let’s look at Japheth according to Zondervans. (“Zondervan’s Pictorial Bible Dictionary”, Merrill C Tenney, General Editor, Copyright1963,1964,1967, by Zondervan All rights reserved.)
Japheth a son of Noah. He was older than Shem (Gen 10:21), but comes third in some lists of the three sons (Gen 6:10;9:18). Shem, however is usually named first (Gen 5;32; 11:10). Japheth and his wife were saved in the ark (Gen 7:7); he aided Shem in covering the naked body of their drunken father (Gen 9:20-27). He si the progenitor of the more remote northern peoples of southeastern Europe. That he was to occupy the tents of Shem is thought to refer to conquests of the Greeks who were descendants of Japheth. This he did during the days of Assyrian power. He had seven sons whose descendants occupied the isles of the Gentiles, Hellenes, of Greeks (Gen 10:5), an area including Asia Minor and upper Greece.
What we see is from Shem’s definition of Japheth is that his races were Aryan looking. We have seen that so far in our historical timeline of Abraham, he and his people mixed with the Hamites, the Canaanites, the Egyptians, and the Philistines’. Many years later at the time of the Greek conquests, the Japhethites moved south into Shem and Ham mixed territory. It is most likely that the blond haired blue eyed Jews we see today are Japhethites, not that any people group is pure. We see from Thomas Jefferson’s children, whom he fathered with his black maid, that it took three generations for a dark skinned person to become light. A mixed marriage that produces a child who married a light skinned person that produces a child, who then marries a light skin person, will have children that are light skinned. In Ethiopian history, people who lived there were mixed skin colors, light, medium and dark. But this brings up one other point that I will close with.
Moses many years later prophesied regarding the children of Jacob/Israel. He declared blessings and curses dependent of their obedience to God. It is almost frightening to read these and because we have the benefit of hindsight, we can see that yes Israel was scattered, and yes the people were sent everywhere, all over the earth. But there is something we may not realize, let’s explore.
Deut 28:15 But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:
Deut 28:62 And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the Lord thy God.
Deut 28:64 And the Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.
Deut 28:68 And the Lord shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.
Deut 28:68 'And Jehovah hath brought thee back to Egypt with ships, by a way of which I said to thee, Thou dost not add any more to see it, and ye have sold yourselves there to thine enemies, for men-servants and for maid-servants, and there is no buyer.'YLT
We know the Israelites were scattered, but here Moses says they will be sent away to the land of bondage, on ships, as slaves and servants and no one would buy them. No one got payment for the selling of the Israelites as slaves. As taught in schools I attended in the United States, tribal people in Africa sold their own slaves to traders for the slave trade in America. Where did these tribal people get the slaves to sell? Furthermore, when the African slaves came to Northern America, they all sang spiritual songs. They did not go to church, they were slaves, yet the slaves had songs about God, and Canaan Land and many had Hebraic traditions. Is it possible that some of the slaves sold in the Americas’ were descendants of Abraham? Mixed as slaves among the other sons of Abraham and sons of Ham? I am not saying that all black people are true Israelites; however I would say that there are many who are.
Moses was ridiculed for taking a Midian wife, who was dark skinned. Yet Jethro, his father-in-law was a priest of God, a third generation descendant of Abraham. And as we see Abraham taught all his sons the ways of the Lord our God, and for three generations at least, the Midianites adhered to those ways. Hopefully we now have a clearer picture of the muddy waters of biblical integrated races. If we look at the Israelites today we also have to factor in modern history of the Khazar and the Ashkenazi tribes which converted to Judaism, both tribes are descendants of Japheth, now dwelling in the tents of Shem, in the land of Shem. What we have to remember is that there was nothing wrong with being a Jew by conversion until the Romans made that an unpopular idea. Yet even after the first century, conversion to Judaism was widely accepted until modern times, when the argument of whose land Israel belongs to hinges on the very question of family lineage.
At the time of the Exodus, many in the tribe of Dan left and went to Greece, then later to Spain, and eventually some went to England. They were seafaring traders. Also at the time of Judges more people from the tribe of Dan left in ships, as well as cultural history that tells us some of the tribe of Issachar went to Spain. It is evident that the children of Israel were scattered all over the world as Moses prophesied. We have Native American tribes that have Jewish customs and traditions. Also a few years ago Fox News reported that the largest population of Jewish immigrants moving into Israel was from Iran. There is evidence of Jewish communities in England, Scotland, the Americas, Turkey, Iran Iraq, all throughout Africa, and some Islands. The land was given to Shem. He did not keep Levitical law, he was Melchizedek, a King Priest. Ham’s people moved in, and later Japheth’s people also moved in. Abraham was also given the land and dwelt in it with all his sons. It is easy to see why Jesus came to provide a better way. Today we look forward to a one world government called the millennial reign of Christ, where the kingdoms of this world will become the kingdoms of our Lord and Christ. Jesus reconciled God and Man and He shall reign forever.
End Notes
THE ORIGIN OF RACE
By Cooper P. Abrams, III
*All rights reserved.
By Cooper P. Abrams, III
*All rights reserved.
Zipporah
Khazars
Ashkenazi
Zimran
Jokshan
Medan
Midian
Ishbak
Shuah
