Qedarites
Videos
The Qedarites were an ancient Arab tribal confederation centred in their capital Dumat al-Jandal in the present-day Saudi Arabian province of Al-Jawf. Attested from the 9th century BC, the Qedarites f
Wadi Sirhan (to the east, inscribed in Arabic), the core territory of the Qedarites
Assyrian relief depicting a battle between Assyrian soldiers and Qedarite Arab warriors.
Relief from Ashurbanipal's palace depicting Assyrian soldiers pursuing camel-riding Qedarite Arab warriors.
The Neo-Babylonian king Šamaš-šuma-ukin, whose revolt against Assyria was supported by the Qedarites.
Ishmael
Videos
In the biblical Book of Genesis, Ishmael was the first son of Abraham. His mother was Hagar, the handmaiden of Abraham's wife Sarah. He died at the age of 137.
Qedarites
…the Egyptian city of Heliopolis every 500 years. The Qedarites appear in the Hebrew Bible as a tribe descended from קֵדָ֥ר (Qēḏār), the second son of Ishmael, himself the son of Abraham and Hagar, In the Bible, Ishmael's eldest son נְבָיוֹת (Nebaioth) is given prominence due to the rule of primogeniture…
Ishmael, watercolour by James Tissot, as in Genesis 21:20: "And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer."
The dismissal of Hagar, by Pieter Pietersz Lastman
A depiction of Hagar and her son Ishmael in the desert (1819) by François-Joseph Navez
Hagar and Ishmael in the Desert, by Grigory Ugryumov (c. 1785)