Midian
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Midian was a geographical region in the Tabuk Province of modern-day Saudi Arabia, mentioned in the Hebrew Bible and Quran. William G. Dever states that biblical Midian was in the "northwest Arabian P
Jabal Ḥubaysh (Arabic: جَبَل حُبَيْش)
Five kings of Midian slain by Israel (illustration from the 1728 Figures de la Bible)
1908 image of a mountain associated with Muhammad and Lawrence of Arabia, 40 miles (64 km) from Tabuk
Zipporah
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Zipporah is mentioned in the Book of Exodus as the wife of Moses, and the daughter of Jethro, the priest and prince of Midian.
Midian
…brothers, was sold to either Midianites or Ishmaelites. Moses spent 40 years in self-imposed exile in Midian after killing an Egyptian. There, he married Zipporah, the daughter of Midianite priest Jethro (also known as Reuel). Jethro advised Moses on establishing a system of delegated legal decision-making. Moses…
Zipporah by John Ruskin after Botticelli, 1874
The Daughters of Jethro, Théophile Hamel, c. 1850
Miriam and Aaron complain against Moses, illustration from The Bible and Its Story, Taught By One Thousand Picture Lessons (1908)
Moses and his Ethiopian wife Zipporah (Mozes en zijn Ethiopische vrouw Sippora). Jacob Jordaens, c. 1650