Ishbak [61520]

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Ishbak (Hebrew: ish'b "he will leave; leaving"), also spelt Jisbak [1] and Josabak.[2] According to the Bible he was the fifth son of Abraham , the patriarch of the Israelites , and Keturah whom he wed after the death of Sarah .[3][4] Ishbak had five brothers, Zimran , Jokshan, Medan , Midian and Shuah . [5]

Josephus tells us that "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."[6] Abraham in all probability, tried to keep them apart from Isaac to avoid conflict while fulfilling God's commission to spread out and inhabit the globe.[7][8][9] Little else is known about him, but his descendants may be the people identified in a cuneiform inscription to a people know as Jasbuqu[10].
References
1. ^ Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, Hebrew Dictionary, 3435
2. ^ Josephus , Flavious, Antiquities, 1.15.1
3. ^ Genesis 25:2-6
4. ^ 1Chronicles 1:32
5. ^ Genesis 25:1-6
6. ^ Josephus, Flavious, Antiquities, 1.15.1
7. ^ Genesis 1:27,28
8. ^ Genesis 9:1
9. ^ Josephus, Flavious, Antiquities, 1.4.1-3
10 ^ Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary, Volume 1, Review and Herald Publishing Association (Washington, D.C., USA), 1953, p.367
External links
Easton's Bible Dictionary: Ishbak