Bible Verses About The Ishmaelites

They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread.

For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle.

For the Lord said to me, “Within a year, as a worker bound by contract would count it, all the glory of Kedar will fail,

and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, will be few; for the LORD, the God of Israel, has spoken it.”

Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all who have the corners of their beard cut off;

and all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mixed people who dwell in the wilderness;

and all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes;