Bible Location
Meaning: judgment; covering; habit · 44 cross references · Modern-day map available
Midian is the desert and steppe region south and east of Canaan associated with the descendants of Abraham by Keturah. It is important because it intersects with the story of Moses, appears repeatedly in Israel's wilderness world, and later becomes a people and territory involved in conflict, alliance, and prophetic imagery. First appears in Gen 36:35.1
AI summary: Midian matters in Scripture because it stands close to several turning points in Israel's story. Moses flees there, marries into a Midianite family, and encounters God near the period that leads into the Exodus, giving Midian a place in the background of Israel's deliverance. Later, Midianites appear in both trade and warfare, and their relationship with Israel becomes mixed, sometimes close, sometimes hostile. Judges especially remembers Midian as an oppressor defeated through Gideon, while prophets and poets continue to use Midian as part of Israel's wider memory of conflict and deliverance. The cross references present Midian as a desert-border world tied to exile, calling, danger, and rescue.1
Strife, the fourth son of Abraham by Keturah, the father of the Midianites (Gen. 25:2; 1 Chr. 1:32). 3
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Figure1: A table of cross references between the selected passage and other passages (Data from Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.)
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.