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The Israelites were the descendants of twelve sons of the biblical patriarch Jacob. Jacob also had at least one daughter, Dinah, whose descendants were not recognized as a tribe. The sons of Jacob were born in Padan-aram from different mothers, as follows: [4] The sons of Leah; Reuben (Jacob's firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun
Agrippa I, called "King Herod" or "Herod" in Acts 12; Felix governor of Judea who was present at the trial of Paul, and his wife Drusilla in Acts 24:24; Herod Agrippa II, king over several territories, before whom Paul made his defense in Acts 26. Herod Antipas, called "Herod the Tetrarch" or "Herod" in the Gospels and in Acts 4:27; Herodias ...
Jacob is later mentioned in the Quran in the context of the promise bestowed to Zechariah, regarding the birth of John the Baptist. (19:6) Jacob's second mention is in the Quran's second chapter. As Jacob lay on his deathbed, he asked his 12 sons to testify their faith to him before he departed from this world to the next.
In an Islamic context, Bani Isra'il (Arabic: بني إسرائيل Banī Isrā'īl "The children of Israel") (Biblical Hebrew: b'nei yisrael, בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל) refers to the children of Jacob. It is also used to refer to: Descendants of the 12 sons of Jacob, including Joseph; Ten Lost Tribes; Twelve Tribes of Israel. In this ...
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Joseph (/ ˈ dʒ oʊ z ə f,-s ə f /; Hebrew: יוֹסֵף, romanized: Yōsēp̄, lit. 'He shall add') [2] [a] is an important Hebrew figure in the Bible's Book of Genesis.He was the first of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel (Jacob's twelfth named child and eleventh son).
"Son of the south", with south derived from the word for the right hand side, referring to the birth of Benjamin in Canaan, as compared with the birth of all the other sons of Jacob in Aram. [6] [7] Modern scholars have proposed that "son of the south" / "right" is a reference to the tribe being subordinate to the more dominant tribe of Ephraim ...
The Biblical account shows Zilpah's status as a handmaid change to that of an actual wife of Jacob (Genesis 30:9,11). Many scholars believe that Gad was a late addition to the Israelite confederation. [3] Gad by this theory is assumed to have been a northwards-migrating nomadic tribe, at a time when the other tribes were quite settled in Canaan ...