Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. Tema appears in Job 6:19 and Isaiah 21:14; Jetur and Naphish appear in 1 Chronicles 5:19 as opponents of the tribes east of the Jordan. The descendants of Ishmael inhabit the historical and geographical world of the biblical narrative. The application: the names that seem remote are the names of real peoples in a real world, with real stories that intersect with the covenant story.

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