"So we bypassed our brothers, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. [We turned] away from the Arabah road and from Elath and Ezion-geber. We traveled along the road to the Wilderness of Moab.

Some of the Philistines also brought gifts and silver as tribute to Jehoshaphat, and the Arabs brought him flocks: 7,700 rams and 7,700 male goats.

God helped him against the Philistines, the Arabs that live in Gur-baal, and the Meunites.

When Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard [about this], they mocked and despised us, and said, "What is this you're doing? Are you rebelling against the king?"

When all our enemies heard this, all the surrounding nations were intimidated and lost their confidence, for they realized that this task had been accomplished by our God.

Like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go out to their task of foraging for food; the wilderness provides nourishment for their children.

I made the wilderness its home, and the salty wasteland its dwelling.

It will never be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation; a nomad will not pitch his tent there, and shepherds will not let [their flocks] rest there.

An oracle against Arabia: You will camp for the night in the scrublands of the desert, you caravans of Dedanites.

The wilderness and the dry land will be glad; the desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose.

Look to the barren heights and see. Where have you not been immoral? You sat waiting for them beside the highways like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.

all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mixed peoples who have settled in the desert;

Arabia and all the princes of Kedar were your business partners, trading with you in lambs, rams, and goats.

Cretans and Arabs-we hear them speaking in our own languages the magnificent acts of God."

I did not go up to Jerusalem to those who had become apostles before me; instead I went to Arabia and came back to Damascus.

Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.