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Ishmael, you say, is a usurper, yet to believe an Idumaean sooner than Ishmael is to sting like an adder.

From Ben-Hur; a tale of the Christ by Wallace, Lewis

But in the year following he collected an army of sixty thousand chosen footmen and five thousand horsemen to renew the attack, and marched to the Idumaean border.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 02 Jewish Heroes and Prophets by Lord, John

These were the Sadducaean notables who long had headed the struggle against the Idumaean interlopers.

From Prolegomena by Wellhausen, Julius

He was the son of Antipater, a noble Idumaean, who had ingratiated himself in the favor of Hyrcanus II., high-priest and sovereign, and who ruled as the prime minister of this feeble and incapable prince.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 02 Jewish Heroes and Prophets by Lord, John

He doubtless reigned with great ability, tyrant and murderer as he was, and detested by the Jews as an Idumaean.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 02 Jewish Heroes and Prophets by Lord, John