Mishma, and Dumah, Massa, Hadad, and Tema,
      I. We shall have little to say of the Ishmaelites. They were the sons of the bondwoman, that were to be cast out and not to be heirs with the child of the promise; and their case was to represent that of the unbelieving Jews, who were rejected (Galatians 4:22; Galatians 4:23, c.), and therefore there is little notice taken of that nation. Ishmael's twelve sons are just named here (1 Chronicles 1:29-31; 1 Chronicles 1:29-31), to show the performance of the promise God made to Abraham, in answer to his prayer for him, that, for Abraham's sake, he should become a great nation, and particularly that he should beget twelve princes, Genesis 17:20.