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Midian
A people descended from Abraham through Keturah, and they keep turning up in different roles. Midianite traders bought Joseph. Moses found a home and a wife, Zipporah, in Midian. Later they oppressed Israel until Gideon beat them.
A people descended from Abraham through Keturah, and they keep turning up in different roles. Midianite traders bought Joseph. Moses found a home and a wife, Zipporah, in Midian. Later they oppressed Israel until Gideon beat them.
Midian was a nation descended from Abraham through his wife Keturah, and Midianites appear throughout the Old Testament in shifting roles, from the merchants who bought Joseph as a slave to Moses's own adopted homeland and family through his wife Zipporah to a major oppressor of Israel that Gideon eventually defeated.
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- Genesis 36:35
- Exodus 2:15
- Exodus 2:16
- Exodus 3:1
- Exodus 4:19
- Exodus 18:1
- Numbers 22:4
- Numbers 22:7
- Numbers 25:15
- Numbers 25:18
- Numbers 31:3
- Numbers 31:7
- Numbers 31:8
- Numbers 31:9
- Joshua 13:21
- Judges 6:1
- Judges 6:2
- Judges 6:3
- Judges 6:6
- Judges 6:7
- Judges 6:11
- Judges 6:13
- Judges 6:14
- Judges 6:16
- Judges 6:33
- Judges 7:1
- Judges 7:2
- Judges 7:7
- Judges 7:8
- Judges 7:12
- Judges 7:13
- Judges 7:14
- Judges 7:15
- Judges 7:23
- Judges 7:24
- Judges 7:25
- Judges 8:1
- Judges 8:3
- Judges 8:5
- Judges 8:12
- Judges 8:22
- Judges 8:26
- Judges 8:28
- Judges 9:17
- 1 Kings 11:18
- 1 Chronicles 1:46
- Psalm 83:9
- Isaiah 9:4
- Isaiah 10:26
- Isaiah 60:6
- Habakkuk 3:7
