Genesis 10:28

And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba.
] The first of these, Obal, or Aubal, as the Arabs pronounce, Bochart ^F20 is obliged to make his posterity pass over the straits of the Arabian Gulf out of Arabia Felix into Arabia Troglodytice; where he finds a bay, called by Pliny ^F21 the Abalite bay, which carries in it some trace of this man's name, and by Ptolemy ^F22 the Avalite bay; and where was not only an emporium of this name, but a people called Avalites and also Adulites, which Bishop Patrick believes should be read "Abulites", more agreeably to the name of this man, but Pliny ^F23 speaks of a town of the Adulites also: Abimael is supposed by Bochart ^F24 to be the father of Mali, or the Malitae, as his name may be thought to signify, Theophrastus ^F25 making mention of a place called Mali along with Saba, Adramyta, and Citibaena, in spicy Arabia, which is the only foundation there is for this conjecture: Sheba gave name to the Sabaeans, a numerous people in Arabia; their country was famous for frankincense; the nations of them, according to Pliny ^F26, reached both seas, that is, extended from the Arabian to the Persian Gulf; one part of them, as he says ^F1, was called Atramitae, and the capital of their kingdom Sabota, on a high mountain, eight mansions from which was their frankincense country, called Saba; elsewhere he says ^F2, their capital was called Sobotale, including sixty temples within its walls; but the royal seat was Mariabe; and so Eratosthenes in Strabo ^F3 says, the metropolis of the Sabaeans was Mariaba, or, as others call it, Merab, and which, it seems, is the same with Saba; for Diodorus Siculus ^F4 and Philostorgius ^F5 say, the metropolis of the Sabaeans is Saba; and which the former represents as built on a mountain, as the Sabota of Pliny is said to be,