Medan, son of Abraham
According to the Bible, Medan (Script error: The function "langx" does not exist. Məḏān "contention; to twist, conflict"); also spelt Madan in the Vulgate,[1] and in Josephus' writings,[2] was the third son of Abraham, the patriarch of the Israelites, and Keturah whom he married after the death of Sarah.[3][4]
Medan had five brothers, Zimran, Jokshan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.[5] Josephus states that "Abraham contrived to settle them in colonies; and they took possession of Troglodytis and the country of Arabia Felix ("Arabia the Happy"), as far as it reaches to the Red Sea."[2] Little else is known about them.[6]
There is no known connection to neither the Madan people of Iran and Iraq, nor the city of Medan in North Sumatra, Indonesia.
References
- ↑ Genesis 25:2: Vulgate
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Flavius Josephus. – via Wikisource.
- ↑ Genesis 25:2-6
- ↑ 1 Chronicles 1:32
- ↑ Genesis 25:1-6
- ↑ Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary, Volume 1, Review and Herald Publishing Association (Washington, D.C., USA), 1953, p.367
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