Reference: Arabia, Arabs
Hastings
In the present article we have to do not with the part played by the Arabs in history, or with the geography of the Arabian peninsula, but only with the emergence of the Arab name and people in Bible times.
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And we shall pass by our brethren the sons of Esau, dwelling in Seir, from the way of the sterile region from Elath, and from Ezion-Gaber, we shall turn and shall pass over the way of the desert of Moab.
And from the rovers bringing a gift to Jehoshaphat, and silver of tribute; also the Arabians bringing to him flocks, seven thousand, and seven hundred rams, and seven thousand and seven hundred he goats.
And God will help him against the rovers, and against the Arabians inhabiting Gur-Baal, and the Mehunims.
And Sanballat the Horonite will hear, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, and they will mock to us and despise us, and say, What this word that ye do? are ye bearing rule against the king?
And it will be as all our enemies heard, and all the nations that were round about us saw, and they will fall greatly in their own eyes: and they knew that from God was done this work.
Behold, wild asses in the desert will go forth in their work, seeking for prey: the sterile region bread for him, and for the young.
To whom did I set the desert his house, and the salt land his dwellings?
It shall not be inhabited forever, and it shall not be dwelt in even to generation and generation: and the Arabian shall not go on there, and the shepherds shall not recline there.
The burden of Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, ye wayfarers of Dedanim.
The desert and the dryness shall be glad for them; and the sterile region shall rejoice and blossom as the meadow flower.
Lift up thine eyes upon the naked hills and see where thou wert not lain with. Upon the ways thou didst sit for them as the ravens in the desert; and thou wilt defile the land with thy fornications and with thine evil
And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the intermingled dwelling in the desert,
Arabia and all the princes of Kedar, they the merchants of thy hand with lambs and rams and he goats: in them thy merchants.
Cretes and Arabians, we hear them speaking in our tongues the great things of God.
Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them sent before me; but I went away to Arabia, and again returned to Damascus.
For Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and now stands in the same rank With Jerusalem, and is in a servile condition with her children.