Jokshan [61512]

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Jokshan ("an offense", "hardness", or "a knocking"); most probably Josephus' Jazar.[1] According to the Bible he was the second son of Abraham and his concubine[2] Keturah , whom he wed after the death of Sarah .[3] Jokshan had five other brothers: Zimran , Medan , Midian , Ishbak and Shuah [4]; as well as two half brothers: Ismael and Isaac .

Josephus records 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."[5] 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.[6][7][8] It is thought that Jokshan peopled part of Arabia , specifically Yemen , and to be the person whom the Arabians called Qahtan and acknowledged as the head of their nation.
Jokshan became the father of Sheba and Dedan . Dedan had three sons, named Asshurim , Letushim , and Leummim.[9]
References
1. ^ Josephus , Flavious, Antiquities 1.15.1
2. ^ 1Chronicles 1:32
3. ^ Genesis 25:2-6
4. ^ Genesis 25:1-6
5. ^ Josephus, Flavious, Antiquities, 1.15.1
6. ^ Genesis 1:27,28
7. ^ Genesis 9:1
8. ^ Josephus, Flavious, Antiquities, 1.4.1-3
9. ^ Genesis 25:3
Calmet, Augustin (1837). Calmet's Dictionary of the Holy Bible. Boston: Crocker & Brewster . LCC BS440.C3

Jokshan married.