the nomadic tribes inhabiting the country to the east and south of Palestine, who in the early times of Hebrew history were known as Ishmaelites and descendants of Keturah.
Arabians
Arabia and its peoples turn up in Scripture mostly at the edges of the story. The LORD stirred up the Arabians, with the Philistines, against King Jehoram, and they carried off his household’s wealth (2 Chronicles 21:16-17). Geshem the Arabian laughed at Nehemiah’s rebuilding. Isaiah speaks a burden over Arabia and names Kedar, whose archers would dwindle, while elsewhere the flocks of Kedar are gathered in worship. On the day of Pentecost the crowd includes “Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.” Start with Acts 2:5-11.
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2 Chronicles
Moreover the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians, that were near the Ethiopians:
And they came up into Judah, and brake into it, and carried away all the substance that was found in the king's house, and his sons also, and his wives; so that there was never a son left him, save Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.
Nehemiah
But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?
Isaiah
The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim.
The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled.
For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail:
And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel hath spoken it.
Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.
All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee: they shall come up with acceptance on mine altar, and I will glorify the house of my glory.
Jeremiah
And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the desert,
Acts
Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.
From Smith's Bible Dictionary
William Smith, 1884