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Seba; or, Saba, or Sheba, whose seed were the Sabeans in Arabia the Desert; see Psa_72:10 Isa_43:3; and, as some think, the Abyssines in Africa.
Havilah, the father of the inhabitants of the land of Havilah, mentioned Gen_2:11; a land in the most eastern part of Arabia, this being opposed to Shur, a desert near Egypt, as the two remotest bounds of Arabia, Gen_25:18 1Sa_15:7.
Sabtah was father of those people who were seated in the lower part of Arabia the Happy, near the Persian Gulf, who also sent forth a colony into Persia. For in those parts we meet with the Sabateni in Josephus, the Stabaei and Messabathi in Ptolemy and Pliny.
Raamah, from whom descended another people dwelling in the same Arabia. See Eze_27:22.
Sabtechah, the father of another people adjoining to them.
Sheba was father either of that people which inhabited Ethiopia, who were known by that name; see 1Ki_10:1, �, �, Mat_12:42 Act_8:27; or rather of another people in Arabia. So the several sons of Cush are conveniently seated one near another. And those Ethiopians in Africa might be a colony either of these, or rather of the posterity of the former Seba.
Dedan; of whose posterity see Eze_27:15, �.