Ephah ben Midian

• Preferred Name: Ephah ben Midian^[1]
  
• Alternate Name: Epha Ephah ibn Midian
  
• Gender: M
  
• Death: ABT 1740 BC in Midian at LATI: N7.8103 LONG: E96.9528 with note: Somebody forgot to write BC
  
• Birth: ABT 1816 BC in Midian at LATI: N7.8103 LONG: E96.9528 with note: Reasonable estimate for a date based on the order of the birth's of Midian's sons, per 1st Chronicles 1:33.
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Prince of Midian
  
• Residence: Midian in the northwest Arabian Peninsula, on the east shore of the Gulf of Aqaba on the Red Sea
  
• FSID: LDWG-Q4N
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Book of Jasher 25
  9. And the children of Midian, son of Abraham, went to the east of the land of Cush, and they there found a large valley in the eastern country, and they remained there and built a city, and they dwelt therein, that is the land of Midian unto this day.
  10. And Midian dwelt in the city which he built, he and his five sons and all belonging to him.
  11. And these are the names of the sons of Midian according to their names in their cities, Ephah, Epher, Chanoch, Abida and Eldaah.
  12. And the sons of Ephah were Methach, Meshar, Avi and Tzanua, and the sons of Epher were Ephron, Zur, Alirun and Medin, and the sons of Chanoch were Reuel, Rekem, Azi, Alyoshub and Alad.
  13. And the sons of Abida were Chur, Melud, Kerury, Molchi; and the sons of Eldaah were Miker, and Reba, and Malchiyah and Gabol; these are the names of the Midianites according to their families; and afterward the families of Midian spread throughout the land of Midian.
  
  === A grandson of Abraham, he was the founde ===
  A grandson of Abraham, he was the founder and patriarch of a tribe thatroamed the desert in Arabia and sent caravans of gold and frankincensefrom Sheba (Yemen). (Everyone in the Bible, by William P. Barker, 1966) Ephah's descendants settled in what is now Ghuwafa, to the south-west ofTebuk, in the north-west Arabian peninsula. They are known to us in theannals of Tiglath-pileser who refers to them as the Hayapa.Subsequently, they are last heard of in an inscription of Sargon II thatdates to the year 725 B.C. (Internet:www.biblebelievers.org.au/nation01.htm)
  
  === FILE: (Adam's gg son 19) Gen. 25:4; 1 Ch ===
  FILE: (Adam's gg son 19) Gen. 25:4; 1 Chr. 1:33; OCCUPATION: Prince of Midian

• m. 1839 BC in Canaan, Israel

1. Tamar Of the Midianites, b. ABT 1895 BC in Hebron, Canaan     d. in Goshen, Egypt

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