Abraham's Sons By Keturah Genesis 25:1-18

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In this Chapter Abraham takes Keturah his concubine and she becomes his wife. It's believed that she was his concubine when Sarah was alive. Keturah had 6 children with Abraham: Zimran, Jokshan,Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.

In Verse 6 the bible tells how Abraham sent the sons of the concubines Eastward into the East country. The bible is very clear that Isaac received the blessing and birthright from Abraham and the children of Keturah and of Hagar did not receive the birthright nor the blessing from Abraham. This blessing is directly spelled out in Genesis 26:24.

This is because both Hagar and Keturah were originally his concubines. Although Keturah's children may be difficult to figure out where exactly they went, we do have a couple of clues where some of them may have ended up. In Verse 3 Jokshan begat Sheba and Dedan. These names just so happen to be the same names of principle cities in Saudia Arabia that also bare these names of Sheba and Dedan.

Cities named Dedan and Sheba are on the Arabian peninsula.

Midian had children also, from what limited research I did of where they went, it's suggested that the modern day Bedouins may have originally came from the Abrahamic line. If true, the modern day Bedouins are not a racially pure line from Abraham through Sarah, but instead are from the Concubines of Abraham.

The Bedouin line may or may not have originally came from Abraham, but it's well know that they are racially mixed people today.

Abraham gave up the ghost, breathed his last breath, and was buried in the Cave of Machpelah the same place he buried his wife Sarah.

Isaac was blessed by Yahweh (God) and he dwelt with Rebekah by the well of Lahai-roi (Well of Vision).

Ishmael died at age 137. He dwelt South and East of Canaan land (Palestine).