미디안 은 아라비아 반도 북서쪽의 사막지대에 거주하는 민족, 또는 지명이다.
Abraham 이 후처로 얻은
Keturah 의 아들중 한명이 미디안이며, 그 후손들로 이뤄진 민족이다.
Joseph (Son of Jacob) 이 형제들에게 팔릴 때에,
Egypt 과 교역을 하던 미디안 상인들에게 노예로 팔렸다.
Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. The merchants brought Joseph into Egypt .
Moses 가 사람을 죽인 후 애굽에서 도망쳐나와 미디안 땅에 머물렀고 이곳에서 아내를 얻었다.
16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.
17 The shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
18 When they came to Reuel, their father, he said, “How is it that you have returned so early today?”
19 They said, “An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock.”
20 He said to his daughters, “Where is he? Why is it that you have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.”
21 Moses was content to dwell with the man. He gave Moses Zipporah , his daughter.
22 She bore a son, and he named him Gershom , for he said, “I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land.”
미디안 민족은
Amalek 과 연합하여 이스라엘을 자주 침공하였다, 사사시대에
기드온 은 미디안 군대와의 전투에서 승리하였다.
사사기 8장 참조.
Abraham 의 가계도가계도 이미지 준비 중
