And the sons of Cush
The first born of Ham, who had five sons, next mentioned, besides Nimrod, spoken of afterwards by himself:
Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha;
the first of these is Seba, the founder of the Sabaeans, according to Josephus {p}, a people seated in Arabia Deserta, which seem to be the Sabaeans brought from the wilderness, ( Ezekiel 23:42 ) and very probably the same that plundered Job of his cattle, ( Job 1:14 Job 1:15 ) . The second son is Havilah, who, as Josephus F17 says, was the father of the Evilaeans, now called Getuli; but the posterity of Havilah seem to be the same whom Strabo F18 calls Chaulotaeans, and whom he speaks of along with the Nabataeans and Agraeans, a people near Arabia Felix; and by Pliny
And the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan;
no account is given of any of the posterity of the other sons of Cush, only of this his fourth son Raamah, who is said to have two sons; the first is called Sheba, from whom came the Sabaeans, according to Josephus F2; not the Sabaeans before mentioned in Arabia Deserta, but those in Arabia Felix, where Pomponius Mela F3 and Strabo F4 seat a people called Sabaeans, and whose country abounded with frankincense, myrrh, and cinnamon; the latter makes mention of a city of theirs called Mariaba, and seems to be the same that is now called Mareb, and formerly Saba F5, very likely from this man. The other son, Dedan, is called by Josephus F6 Judadas, whom he makes to be founder of the Judadaeans, a nation of the western Ethiopians; but the posterity of this man most probably settled in Arabia, and yet are to be distinguished from the Dedanim in ( Isaiah 21:13 ) who were Arabians also, but descended from Dedan the son of Jokshan, a son of Abraham by Keturah, ( Genesis 25:3 ) as well as from the inhabitants of Dedan in Edom, ( Jeremiah 25:23 ) ( 49:8 ) it is observed, that near the city Regma before mentioned, on the same coast eastward, was another city called Dedan; and to this day Daden, from which the neighbouring country also takes its name, as Bochart F7 has observed, from Barboza, an Italian writer, in his description of the kingdom of Ormus: so that we need not doubt, says Dr. Wells F8, but that here was the settlement of Dedan the son of Raamah or Rhegma, and brother of Sheba.
F16 Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 1. c. 6. sect. 1.)
F17 Ibid.
F18 Geograph. l. 16. p. 528.
F19 Nat. Hist. l. 5. c. 11.
F20 Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 1. c. 6. sect. 1.)
F21 Geograph. l. 6. c. 7.
F23 Nat. Hist. l. 6. c. 28.
F24 Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 1. c. 6. sect. 1.)
F25 Ut supra. (Geograph. l. 6. c. 7.)
F26 Geography of the Old Testament, vol. 1. p. 198.
F1 Phaleg l. 4. c. 4. col. 218.
F2 Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 1. c. 6. sect. 1.)
F3 De Situ Orbis, l. 3. c. 8.
F4 Geograph. l. 16. p. 536.
F5 Via. Pocock. Specimen Arab. Hist p. 57.
F6 Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 1. c. 6. sect. 1.)
F7 Phaleg. l. 4. c. 6. col. 219.
F8 Ut supra, (Geography of the Old Testament, vol. 1.) p. 197.