Midian

mountain in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt

At-Tur (, ; The Mount) is the 52nd chapter (sūrah) of the Quran with 49 verses (ayat). The surah opens with the oath of Allah swearing by the Mount, which some believe is Mount Sinai, where the Tawrat was revealed to Musa. The chapter takes its name from "the mount" (ṭūr) mentioned in verse 1.

Shuaib, Shoaib, Shuayb or Shuʿayb (, ; meaning: "who shows the right path") is an ancient Midianite prophet in Islam and the most revered prophet in the Druze faith. Shuaib is sometimes identified with the Hebrew biblical Jethro, Moses's father-in-law. Shuaib is mentioned in the Quran 11 times. He is believed to have lived after Ibrahim (Abraham), and Muslims believe that he was sent as a prophet to the Midianites, who are also known as the Aṣḥāb al-Aykah ("Companions of the Wood") for their worship of a large tree. To the Midianites, Shuaib proclaimed the "straight path", warning them to end

Gideon (; ) also named Jerubbaal ( ) and Jerubbesheth (| ) was an Israelite shopeṭ ("judge"), military leader, and prophet whose calling and victory over the Midianites is described in Judges 6–8 in the Hebrew Bible.

Keturah (, Qəṭūrā, possibly meaning "incense"; ) was a wife and a concubine of the Biblical patriarch Abraham. According to the Book of Genesis, Abraham married Keturah after the death of his first wife, Sarah. Abraham and Keturah had six sons. According to Jewish tradition, she was a descendant of Noah's son Japheth.

Biblical character

Midian (; ; ; ; ) was a son of Abraham and his wife Keturah, as well as the eponymous ancestor of the Midianites. The name also refers to a geographical region in West Asia, in the Tabuk Province in modern-day Saudi Arabia, mentioned in the Hebrew Bible and the Quran. William G. Dever states that biblical Midian was in the "northwest Arabian Peninsula, on the east shore of the Gulf of Aqaba on the Red Sea", an area which contained at least 14 inhabited sites during the Late Bronze and early Iron Ages.

In the biblical Books of Kings (2 Kings 18:4; written c. 550 BC), the Nehushtan (; ) is the bronze image of a serpent on a pole. The image is described in the Book of Numbers, where Yahweh instructed Moses to erect it so that the Israelites who saw it would be cured and be protected from dying from the bites of the "fiery serpents", which Yahweh had sent to punish them for speaking against him and Moses ().

thumb|Phinehas slaying Zimri and Cozbi the Midianite by Jeremias van Winghe According to the Hebrew Bible, Phinehas (also spelled Phineas, ; , Phinees, ) was a priest during the Exodus. The grandson of Aaron and son of Eleazar, the High Priests (), he distinguished himself as a youth at Shittim with his zeal against the heresy of Peor.

son of Abraham in the bible (Genesis 25)

Mount Horeb In Saudi Arabia

thumb|upright=1.5|Tel Arad fortress above the town of Arad, the central hub of the Negev of the Kenites. According to the Hebrew Bible, the Kenites/Qenites ( or ; ) were a tribe in the ancient Levant. They settled in the towns and cities in the northeastern Negev in an area known as the "Negev of the Kenites" near Arad, and played an important role in the history of ancient Israel. One of the most recognized Kenites is Jethro, Moses's father-in-law, who was a shepherd and a priest in the land of Midian (). Certain groups of Kenites settled among the Israelite population, including the descenda

thumb|right|Phinehas slaying Zimri and Cozbi, by Joos van Winghe Cozbi or Kozbi (, tr. Kozbī) is mentioned in in the Hebrew Bible as "[the] daughter of Zur", a prominent Midianite, and a wife or concubine of the Israelite Zimri, son of Salu. The Lord objected to the mixing of the Israelite people with the local Midianites, and the resultant worshiping of Baal, and instructed Moses to slay all the Israelites who had worshiped Baal.

desert region in Syria and northern Arabia

thirty-first chapter of Numbers in the Hebrew and Christian Bible

Teʾelḫunu (), also spelled Telkhunu, was a queen regnant of the Nomadic Arab tribes of Qedar who ruled in the 7th century BC, circa 690 BC. She succeeded Yatie and was succeeded by queen Tabua.

Tabūʿa (Old Arabic: ; ) was a queen regnant of the Nomadic Arab tribes of Qedar. She ruled in the 7th century BC, circa 675 BC. She succeeded queen Te'el-hunu.

mountain range in Saudi Arabia

Yaṯiʿe (Old Arabic: ; ), also spelled Iatie, was a queen of the Nomadic Arab tribes of Qedar who ruled in the 8th century BC, circa 730 BC.

mountain in Saudi Arabia

Epher ( ʿĒp̄er) was a descendant of Abraham mentioned in the book of Genesis as the second son of Midian and, therefore, a grandson of Abraham through his wife Keturah.

biblical source criticism theory

kings of Midian in the Book of Judges