And the sons of Keturah, Abraham's concubine, [were] Zimram, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan [were] Dedan, and Sheba.

And the sons of Midian [were] Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah; all these [were] the sons of Keturah.

and all the kings of Aelam, and all the kings of the Persians,

And when Husham died, Hadad son of Bedad, who cut off Midian in the plain of Moab, ruled in his place; and the name of his city was Avith.

And the men, the merchants of Midian, went by, and they drew and lifted Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of gold; and they brought Joseph down into Egypt.

[ 37:35] And the Midianites sold Joseph into Egypt; to Potiphar, Pharaoh's eunuch, the captain of the guard.

And Pharaoh heard this matter, and sought to kill Moses. And Moses departed from the presence of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian. And having come into the land of Midian, he sat on the well.

And the priest of Midian had seven daughters, feeding the flock of their father Jethro. And they came and drew water until they filled their pitchers, to water the flock of their father Jethro.

And Jethro the priest of Midian, the father-in-law of Moses, heard of all that the Lord did to His people Israel; for the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt.

and her two sons: the name of the one was Gershom, [his father] saying, I was a sojourner in a strange land;

And Moab said to the elders of Midian, Now shall this assembly lick up all that are round about us, as a calf would lick up the green [herbs] of the field. And Balak son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time.

Harass the Midianites as enemies, and strike them,

for they are enemies to you by the treachery in which they ensnare you through Peor, and through Cozbi their sister, daughter of a prince of Midian, who was smitten in the day of the plague because of Peor.

Avenge the wrongs of the children of Israel on the Midianites, and afterwards you shall be added to your people.

And they killed the kings of Midian together with their slain [subjects]; even Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian; and they killed with the sword Balaam the son of Beor with their [other] slain.

And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord gave them into the hand of Midian for seven years.

And it came to pass when the children of Israel sowed, that Midian and Amalek went up, and the children of the east went up together with them.

For they and their stock came up, and their tents were with them, as the locust in multitude, and there was no number to them and their camels; and they came to the land of Israel, and laid it waste.

And the children of Israel cried to the Lord because of Midian.

Now his three friends, having heard of all the evil that had come upon him, came to him each from his own country: Eliphaz the king of the Temans, Bildad sovereign of the Shuhites, and Zophar, king of the Minaeans. And they came to him with one accord, to comfort [him,] and to visit him.