Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Qedarite refers to a largely nomadic Arab tribal confederation that lived in an area to the east of the western boundary of Babylon in the 8th century BC. Described as "the most organized of the Northern Arabian tribes," at the peak of their power in the 6th century BC they controlled a large region between the Persian Gulf and the Sinai. Biblical tradition holds that the Qedarites are named for Qedar, the second son of Ishmael, mentioned in the Bible''s books of Genesis (25:13) and Chronicles (1:29), where there are also frequent references to the Qedar as a tribe. The earliest extrabiblical inillegalscriptions discovered by archaeologists that mention the Qedarites are from the Assyrian empire.
