Genesis 25:16 KJV — MannaFest

Genesis 25:16

These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their towns, and by their castles; twelve princes according to their nations.

KJV

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ASV

these are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their villages, and by their encampments; twelve princes according to their nations.

WEB

These were the sons of Ishmael, and these were their names by their villages and encampments—twelve princes of their tribes.

YLT

these are sons of Ishmael, and these their names, by their villages, and by their towers; twelve princes according to their peoples.

DBT

These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, in their hamlets and their encampments — twelve princes of their peoples.

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Genesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.

Author: Moses — by traditional attribution; the book is the first of the Pentateuch
Date: Composed c. 15th–13th century BC; draws on older patriarchal sources (the toledoth framework is internal)

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Genesis 17:20
And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.
Genesis 17:23
And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham’s house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.
Genesis 37:25
And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
1 Chronicles 6:54
Now these are their dwelling places throughout their castles in their coasts, of the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites: for theirs was the lot.
Numbers 31:10
And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire.

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The names of his twelve sons are recorded. Midian and Kedar we often read of in scripture. And some very good expositors have taken notice of the signification of those three names which are put together (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Now the number and strength of this family were the fruit of the promise made to Hagar concerning Ishmael ( ch. xvi. 10 ), and to Abraham, ch. xvii. Note, Many that are strangers to the covenants of promise are yet blessed with outward prosperity for the sake of their godly ancestors.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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