These are their generations: The firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth; then Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,
These are their generations - the heads of his twelve tribes. The great northern desert of Arabia, including the entire neck, was colonized by these tribes; and if we can recover, in the modern geography of this part of the country, Arab tribes bearing the names of those patriarchs - i:e., names corresponding with those preserved in the original catalogue of Scripture-we obtain at once so many evidences, not of mere similarity, but of absolute identification (Forster).
Nebaioth - gave rise to the Nabathaeans of the classic, and the Beni Nabat of Oriental, writers.
Kedar - the Arab tribe el-Khedeyre, on the coast of Hedgar, Adbeel-Adbilla, the name of a tribe in Yemen,