And when we left our brothers the sons of Esau who lived in Seir, through the way of the Arabah from Elath, and from Ezion-geber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.

And from the Philistines they brought Jehoshaphat presents and silver for tribute. Also the Arabians brought him flocks, seven thousand and seven hundred rams, and seven thousand and seven hundred he-goats.

And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians who lived in Gurbaal, and the Meunites.

But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us. And they said, What is this that you do? Will you rebel against the king?

And it happened when all our enemies heard, and all the nations around us saw, they were very much lowered in their own eyes. For they saw that this work was done by our God.

Behold, like wild asses in the desert, they go forth to their work, rising early for a prey. The wilderness yields food for them and for their children.

to whom I have assigned the wilderness for its home, and the salt land for its dwellings?

It shall never be inhabited forever, nor shall it be lived in from generation to generation; nor shall the Arabian pitch his tent there; nor shall the shepherds make their flocks lie down there.

The burden against Arabia: You shall stay in the forest of Arabia, O traveling companies of Dedanites.

The wilderness and the desert shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the crocus.

Lift up your eyes to the high places, and see. Where have you not been lain with? By the highways you have sat for them, like the Arabian in the wilderness; and you have defiled the land with your fornications and with your wickedness.

and all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mixed people who dwell in the desert,

Arabia, and all the rulers of Kedar were traders of your hand, in lambs, and rams, and goats; in them was your trade.

Cretans and Arabians, we hear them speaking the great things of God in our own languages.

Nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those apostles before me, but I went into Arabia and returned again to Damascus.

For Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to Jerusalem which now is, and is in slavery with her children.