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Copyright 2020-2021 Debra Johnson ISBN 0-9744087-1-9 Published by DrDebraBooks.com Cover artwork by Darian Greer [email protected] • Most Hebrew or Greek definitions are derived from Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, World Bible Publishers, copyright 1901. • Most archaic definitions are from Webster’s New Universal Unabridged Dictionary, Deluxe Second Edition, Dorset & Baber, copyright 1983. • All Scriptures are quoted from the King James Version (KJV) of the Holy Bible. • In this book, the word brother has multiple meanings, dependent on context: o A biological male sibling o A male member of a tribe descended from Ham o A black or Hamitic man • All photographs were taken by Dr. Debra Johnson during her October 2019 trip to Egypt. 1 The Black Sons of Abraham The Author’s Preface: Pitfalls of Reading Biblical History ........................................................................... 4 From Adam to Noah to Abraham Chart ...................................................................................................... 5 Eight Sons of Abraham: One Brown and Seven Black Chart ...................................................................... 6 The Old Testament Chapter 1: Ham and Canaan: The Curse and the Blessing of Noah ..................................................... 8 The Curse ........................................................................................................................................... 10 The Blessing ........................................................................................................................................... 12 The Benefits of Canaan’s Curse to Today’s Africans and African Americans ........................................... 14 The Story of Nimrod .................................................................................................................................. 16 Babel: Where the Brothers Separated into Tribes ..................................................................................... 18 Ham: The First Brother among Brothers ................................................................................................... 21 Comprehending Ham in Abraham............................................................................................................. 22 Chapter 2: The Black Son of Abraham and Hagar ............................................................................... 25 The Story of Ishmael ................................................................................................................................. 25 The Story of the 12 Sons of Ishmael ......................................................................................................... 36 The Story of Amasa, King David’s Ishmaelite Nephew ............................................................................. 39 The Story of the Hagarites and the Hagarenes ......................................................................................... 46 The Story of the Arabians ......................................................................................................................... 47 The Story of Geshem the Arabian ............................................................................................................. 49 Chapter 3: The Six Black Sons of Abraham and Keturah .................................................................... 51 The Story of Midian ................................................................................................................................... 56 The Labels of the Midianites and the Ishmaelites ..................................................................................... 56 The Story of Job, the Black Midianite ........................................................................................................ 58 The Story of Jethro, Moses’ Black Midianite Father-in-Law ...................................................................... 78 The Story of Hobab, Jethro’s Black Son ................................................................................................... 84 The Story of the Black Midianites, the Black Amorites, the Moabites, and Balaam vs. Moses .................. 85 The Story of the Black Midianite Curse ..................................................................................................... 90 The Story of the Black Midianites vs. Moses ............................................................................................. 92 The Story of Heber the Black Kenite and Jael His Wife ............................................................................ 94 The Story of the Black Midianites vs. Gideon ............................................................................................ 98 The Story of the Black Children of the East ............................................................................................ 104 The Story of the Black Midianites among the Jews ................................................................................. 105 The Story of Heman and Ethan, the Black Ezrahite Psalmists ................................................................ 105 The Black Kenites Become the Black Rechabites: God’s Example to the Jews ..................................... 107 2 Chapter 4: The Black Sons of Esau aka Edom ................................................................................... 113 The Story of Isaac’s Edomite Prophecy, Part 1 ....................................................................................... 116 The Story of Amalek, the Black Grandson of Esau ................................................................................. 125 The Story of the Black Amalekites .......................................................................................................... 127 The Story of Doeg, the Black Edomite .................................................................................................... 133 The Story of Hadad IV, the Black Edomite King ...................................................................................... 138 The Story of Isaac’s Edomite Prophecy, Part 2 ....................................................................................... 140 The Story of the Edomite Curse in Four Sermons .................................................................................. 146 The Story of Haman, the Royal Black Amalekite .................................................................................... 157 Edom: Where God Came From, but not where He Ended Up................................................................. 159 Chapter 5: The Black Sons of Israel? .................................................................................................. 161 Levi The Story of Moses’ Two Black Sons: Gershom and Eliezer ....................................................... 163 Judah The Story of Judah’s Five Black Sons: Er, Onan, Shelah, Pharez, and Zerah ............................. 164 The Story of Caleb, the Black Edomite who Entered the Promised Land .................................... 172 The Story of Boaz, the Black Jew who was Ruth’s Blessing ........................................................ 179 Dan The First Jew to Break Old Testament Law was a Black Man ..................................................... 184 Naphtali The Story of Hiram and the Masons ............................................................................................ 185 Joseph’s Two Black Sons: Manasseh and Ephraim How the Everlasting Covenant of Abraham Passed through Ephraim to Jesus Christ ................ 192 The Story of the Ten Jewish Tribes who became the Black Samaritans ................................................. 200 Why the Black Samaritans are not Assyrians ......................................................................................... 203 The New Testament Chapter 6: The Black Sons of Abraham in the New Testament ........................................................ 210 The Story of the Black Midianite Wise Men ............................................................................................. 210 The Story of the New Testament Black Samaritans: the First People to Receive the Messiah ............... 215 The Story of the Black Good Samaritan .................................................................................................. 222 The Story of the Black Samaritan Leper ................................................................................................. 225 The Story of Simon, the Zealous Black Apostle ...................................................................................... 227 Arabians in the New Testament .............................................................................................................. 229 Chapter 7: Abraham: The Father of Many Nations ............................................................................. 231 References ......................................................................................................................................... 234 3 The Author’s Preface: Pitfalls of Reading Biblical History Central to the Baha’i, Muslim, Jewish, and Christian faiths is one man – Abraham. Although the Catholic