6. The tabernacle of Edom. Nearest of kin, yet first
in enmity. Their sire despised the birthright, and they despise the possessors
of it. Leaving their rock-built mansions for the tents of war, the Edomites invaded
the land of Israel. And the Ishmaelites. A persecuting spirit ran in
their blood; they perpetuated the old grudge between the child of the bondwoman
and the son of the freewoman. Of Moab. Born of incest, but yet a near
kinsman, the feud of Moab against Israel was very bitter. Little could
righteous Lot have dreamed that his unhallowed seed would be such unrelenting
enemies of his Uncle Abraham’s posterity. And the Hagarenes—perhaps
descendants of Hagar by a second husband. Whoever they may have been, they cast
their power into the wrong scale, and with all their might sought the ruin of
Israel. Children of Hagar, and all others who dwell around Mount Sinai, which
is in Arabia, are of bondage, and hence they hate the seed according to
promise.
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