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Hagar and the Ishmaelites’ origins
Sarai, Abram’s wife, had not been able to have children. Since she had an Egyptian servant named Hagar,
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The Lord’s messenger said to her, “You are now pregnant and will give birth to a son. You will name him Ishmael because the Lord has heard about your harsh treatment.
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Hagar gave birth to a son for Abram, and Abram named him Ishmael.
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Abram was 86 years old when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael for Abram.
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To God Abraham said, “If only you would accept Ishmael!”
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As for Ishmael, I’ve heard your request. I will bless him and make him fertile and give him many, many descendants. He will be the ancestor of twelve tribal leaders, and I will make a great nation of him.
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Abraham took his son Ishmael, all those born in his household, and all those purchased with his silver—that is, every male in Abraham’s household—and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskins that same day, just as God had told him to do.
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and his son Ishmael was 13 years old when the flesh of his foreskin was circumcised.
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That same day Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised.
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Hagar and Ishmael evicted
The boy grew and stopped nursing. On the day he stopped nursing, Abraham prepared a huge banquet.
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His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave in Machpelah, which is in the field of Zohar’s son Ephron the Hittite, near Mamre.
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Ishmael’s descendants
These are the descendants of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s servant, bore for Abraham.
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These are the names of Ishmael’s sons, by their names and according to their birth order: Nebaioth, Ishmael’s oldest son; Kedar; Adbeel; Mibsam;
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These are Ishmael’s sons. These are their names by their villages and their settlements: twelve tribal leaders according to their tribes.
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Ishmael lived to the age of 137. He took his last breath and died, and was placed with his ancestors.
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So he went to Ishmael and married Mahalath daughter of Abraham’s son Ishmael and sister of Nebaioth, in addition to his other wives.
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and Basemath the daughter of Ishmael and sister of Nebaioth.
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When they sat down to eat, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead, with camels carrying sweet resin, medicinal resin, and fragrant resin on their way down to Egypt.
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Come on, let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites. Let’s not harm him because he’s our brother; he’s family.” His brothers agreed.
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When some Midianite traders passed by, they pulled Joseph up out of the cistern. They sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver, and they brought Joseph to Egypt.
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Joseph’s rise and betrayal
When Joseph had been taken down to Egypt, Potiphar, Pharaoh’s chief officer, the commander of the royal guard and an Egyptian, purchased him from the Ishmaelites who had brought him down there.
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But Gideon said to them, “May I make one request of you? Everyone give me the earrings from their loot”; the Midianites had worn gold earrings because they were Ishmaelites.
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Absalom had put Amasa in charge of the army instead of Joab. Amasa was the son of a man named Ithra, an Ishmaelite who had married Abigail, who was Nahash’s daughter and the sister of Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.
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All the army officers and their soldiers heard that the Babylonian king had appointed Gedaliah as governor, so they came with their men to Gedaliah at Mizpah. The officers were Ishmael, Nethaniah’s son; Johanan, Kareah’s son; Seraiah, Tanhumeth’s son who was a Netophathite; and Jaazaniah, Maacathite’s son.
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But in the seventh month, Ishmael, Nethaniah’s son and Elishama’s grandson, who was from the royal family, came with ten soldiers, and they struck Gedaliah, and he died. They also killed the Judeans and the Chaldeans who were with him at Mizpah.
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