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 when we were departed from our brethren, the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir by the field way from Elath and Eziongeber, we turned and went the way to the wilderness of Moab.
And the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat gifts and tribute silver. And thereto the Arabians brought him of sheep, 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 that dwelt in Gurbaal, and against the Meunites.
But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant of the Ammonites, and Geshem the Arabian heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, "What is this that ye do? Will ye fall away again from the king?"
And when all our enemies heard thereof, all the Heathen that were about us were afraid, and their courage failed them: for they perceived, that this work came of God.
Behold, even as the wild asses in the desert go they forth to their work, and rise betimes to spoil: Yea, the very wilderness ministereth food for them and their children. by times, as their manner is, to spoil: Yea the very wilderness ministereth food for their children.
Unto whom I have given the wilderness to be their house, and the untilled land to be their dwelling place:
It shall never be more inhabited; neither shall there be any more dwelling there, from generation to generation. The Arabians shall make no more tents there; neither shall the shepherds make their folds there any more;
The heavy burden upon Arabia. At even ye shall abide in the wood, in the way toward Dedanim.
But the desert and wilderness shall rejoice, the waste ground shall be glad, and flourish as the lily.
Lift up thine eyes on every side, and look, if thou be not defiled. Thou hast waited for them in the streets, and as a murderer in the wilderness. through thy whoredoms and shameful blasphemies, is the land defiled.
all the kings of Arabia, and, generally, all the kings that dwell in the desert;
Arabia and all the princes of Cedar have occupied with thee, in sheep, wethers, and goats.
Jews and converts, Greeks and Arabians: We have heard them speak with our own tongues the great works of God."
neither returned to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me: but went my ways into Arabia, and came again unto Damascus.