So we bypassed our relatives, the descendants of Esau who live in Seir. We turned through the Arabah desert from Elath, and from Ezion-geber we traveled the desert road to Moab."

Some of the Philistines brought gifts and silver as tribute to Jehoshaphat, and Arabians brought him flocks of 7,700 rams and 7,700 male goats.

God helped Uzziah defeat the Philistines, the Arabians who lived in Gur-baal, and the Meunites.

But when Sanballat the Horonite, his servant Tobiah the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arab heard about it, they jeered at us and despised us when they said, "What is this thing that you're doing? You're rebelling against the king, aren't you?"

When all of our enemies including the surrounding nations heard this, they became very discouraged, since they saw that the work had been done by our God.

"Look! Like wild donkeys in the wilderness, they work diligently as they seek wild game in the desert, food for them and their young ones.

to whom I've given the Arabah for a home; the salt plain for his dwelling place?

It will never be inhabited or lived in through all generations; no Bedouin will pitch his tent there; no shepherds will make their flocks lie down there.

A message concerning Arabia. "You will camp in the thickets in Arabia, you caravans of the Dedanites.

"The desert and the dry land will rejoice; the desert will celebrate and blossom. Like crocuses,

"Look up to the barren heights and see. Is there any place where you have not been ravished? You have sat beside the road, waiting for them like a nomad in the desert. And you have polluted the land with your fornication and your wickedness.

all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of the various people who live in the desert;

Arabia, including all the princes of Kedar, came to you, shopping for lambs, rams, and goats.

Cretans, and Arabs, listening to them talk in our own languages about the great deeds of God?"

nor did I go up to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before me. Instead, I went away to Arabia and then came back to Damascus.

Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to present-day Jerusalem, because she is in slavery along with her children.