Madian

Samson 281. Midian (called Madian in Acts 7. 29) was a nomadic Arabian tribe. (See Judges 6-8.) Fuller says in part: ” It is as difficult bounds as impo ible completely to deF or besides the mixture and conscribe the country of Midian. precisely to define the junction (not to say confusion) of these eastern people, interfering amongst themselves in their habitations, the Midi a nites especially They led erratical lives, and therefore had uncertain limits. dwelt most in tents, which we may call moving towns and extempore cities, set up in a few hours, and in fewer taken down and di olved. Next morning oft-times found them many miles from the place where off last night left them... For the. general, we dare avouch they had Reuben and Gad on the west, Moab oji the south, Ammon on the north, the Ishmaelites or Some place them more south, hard by Dead Sea, but therein surely mistake. For when Gideon Hagarens on the east. the had the Midi a nites in chase out of the land of Canaan, they betook not themselves southward (and surely such foxes when hunted would haste home to their own kennels), but ran through (Pp. the tribe of Gad, full east, to their proper habitations.” 450-1.) 194