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died, in connection with whose burial he once more for a moment reappears. On this occasion the two brothers met after being long separated. “Isaac with his hundreds of household slaves, Ishmael with his troops of wild retainers and half-savage allies, in all the state of a Bedouin prince, gathered before the cave of Machpelah, in the midst of the men of Heth, to pay the last duties to the ‘father of the faithful,’ would make a notable subject for an artist” (Genesis 25:9). Of the after events of his life but little is known. He died at the age of one hundred and thirty-seven years, but where and when are unknown (25:17). He had twelve sons, who became the founders of so many Arab tribes or colonies, the Ishmaelites, who spread over the wide desert spaces of Northern Arabia from the Red Sea to the Euphrates (Genesis 37:25, 27, 28; 39:1), “their hand against every man, and every man’s hand against them.”
(2.) The son of Nethaniah, “of the seed royal” (Jeremiah 40:8, 15). He plotted against Gedaliah, and treacherously put him and others to death. He carried off many captives, “and departed to go over to the Ammonites.”
•ISHMAIAH heard by Jehovah. (1.) A Gibeonite who joined David at Ziklag, “a hero among the thirty and over the thirty” (1 Chronicles 12:4).
(2.) Son of Obadiah, and viceroy of Zebulun under David and Solomon (1 Chronicles 27:19).
•ISHMEELITES (Genesis 37:28; 39:1, A.V.) should be “Ishmaelites,” as in the Revised Version.
•ISHTOB man of Tob, one of the small Syrian kingdoms which together constituted Aram (2 Samuel 10:6,8).
•ISLAND (Hebrews ‘i, “dry land,” as opposed to water) occurs in its usual signification (Isaiah 42:4, 10, 12, 15, comp. Jeremiah 47:4), but more frequently simply denotes a maritime region or sea-coast (Isaiah 20:6, R.V.,” coastland;” 23:2, 6; Jeremiah 2:10; Ezekiel 27:6, 7). (See CHITTIM.) The shores of the Mediterranean are called the “islands of the sea” (Isaiah 11:11), or the “isles of the Gentiles” (Genesis 10:5), and sometimes simply “isles” (Psalm 72:10); Ezekiel 26:15, 18; 27:3, 35; Daniel 11:18).
•ISRAEL the name conferred on Jacob after the great prayer-struggle at Peniel (Genesis 32:28), because “as a prince he had power with God and