As for Ishmael, I have given ear to your prayer: truly I have given him my blessing and I will make him fertile and give him great increase; he will be the father of twelve chiefs, and I will make him a great nation.
Then Gideon said to them, I have a request to make to you; let every man give me the ear-rings he has taken. For they had gold ear-rings, because they were Ishmaelites.