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In the ''Midyan'' Tiberian ; Arabic مدين; "Strife; judgment") is a son of Abraham and his Concubine Keturah (who according to Midrash is Hagar ). Genesis 25:1-6 His descendants, the ''Midianites'', settled in the territory east of the (later occupied by Ammon ites, Moab ites and Edom ites), and southward through the desert wilderness of the Arabah . During the time of the Exodus , their territory apparently also included portions of the Sinai Peninsula . They dominated this territory from roughly the twelfth through the tenth centuries BCE. In Bible history, Midian was where s, until they were decisively defeated by Gideon . Judges 6–8 Today, the former territory of Midian is found through small portions of western Saudi Arabia , southern Jordan , southern Israel and the Sinai.
GEOGRAPHICAL POSITION In the it is said that the elders of both Moab and Midian called upon him to curse Israel. Numbers 22:4,7 DURING THE EXODUS AND THE PERIOD OF THE JUDGES In Exodus , the land of Midian is introduced as the place to which Moses flees when running away from Pharaoh. There, he encounters Reuel or Jethro, a Midianite priest, who later became Moses' Father-in-law . Toward the close of the forty years' wandering of the children of Israel in the wilderness, the Midianites ally with the Moabites against the Israelites, in asking Balaam the son of Beor to curse the Israelites (Numbers 22); however, Balaam refuses, and prophesies future greatness for Israel (Numbers 24). Subsequently Israelites coexisted peacefully with Moabites and Midianites (Numbers 25). However, Israel suffered a plague which was blamed on Israelite participation in the local religion and sexual immorality. For this reason, according to the Torah , Moses was ordered by God to punish the Midianites. He dispatched against them an army of 12,000 men, under Phinehas the priest; this force defeated the Midianites and slew all their males, including their five kings, Evi , Rekem , Zur , Hur , and Reba . These five kings may have been the rulers of the five clans descended from their Eponym ous folk-ancestor's sons. It may be noted that these five princes of Midian are called by . The Biblical account of the battle between the Midianites and Gideonns." THE KENITES AND EPHAH The first recorded instance of a Midianite tribe surrendering its identity by attaching itself to another people appears in , on the coast of Arabia; according to his statement of its position, this place may be identified with the Madyan of the Arabic geographers, in the neighborhood of 'Ain 'Una , opposite the extremity of the Sinaitic Peninsula, and now known under the name of " Magha 'ir Shu'aib " ("the caves of Shu'aib "). IN ARCHAEOLOGY The Midianites have been tentatively connected by some scholars with the remnants of the Hyksos that were Driven Out of Egypt and made their home in the desert. They may be identical or a part of the people called '' Shasu '' by the Egyptians. This conclusion has to be compared with the derivation of Shasu as meaning "foot travelers," vice the depiction in Judges 6 where it says "their camels were innumerable." Archaeologists recognise a specific hand formed pottery found in the region of Edom and Seir as "Midianite ware". Such pottery has been found associated with the Bronze Serpent found in the ruins of Seti II 's temple to Hathor at Timna . RELIGION In the Bible , the Midianites are described as worshipping a multitude of gods, including Baal-peor and the Asherah . An Egyptian temple of Hathor at Timna continued to be used during the Midianite occupation of the site; however, whether Hathor or some other deity was the object of devotion during this period is impossible to ascertain. The Midianites also seem to have been centered around a cultic site at Mount Horeb. This has led some scholars to speculate that the worship of ''. July/August 2006. MUSIC ''Midian'' is the name of the forth full-length album by British metal band Cradle Of Filth . The album, as well as a later album called Thornography , feature narratives by Doug Bradley , the actor who played the "Head Cenobite " in the Hellraiser movies. FILM The 1990 Clive Barker film '' Nightbreed '' takes place mainly in a city named Midian, full of strange creatures and built underneath a cemetery. The movie is based on Barker's Novella '' Cabal ''. In the Japanese property Hellsing , non-human entities, such as vampires, are known as Midians. SEE ALSO
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