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services to others besides the Egyptians, and we find them 

 with the Lydians serving in the ranks of the armies of Tyre 

 (Ezekiel xxvii., 10). 



The principal races, whose genealogical history is set forth in 

 the first book of Chronicles, from the second to the eighth 

 chapter, omitting the third and the sixth, are three, the Horites, 

 the Jerahmeelites, and the Hittites. The Horites were a sub- 

 Semitic people of Canaan, allied to, and probably including the 

 Phoenicians. The Jerahmeelites were an Aryan or Japhetic race. 

 The Hittites were in point of numbers, at least, the greatest nation 

 of antiquity, and the pioneers of culture. In some cases the 

 genealogies are continuous, in others they have been broken up. 

 The work of re-uniting them is sometimes easy, as when the 

 mention of Mareshah in chap, iv., v. 21 refers us to chap, ii., v. 42, 

 where his descendants arc given. The family of Shobal, the 

 Horite, also is traced in chap, i., v. 40, chap, ii., v. 50, and 

 chap, iv., v. 2. But the Hittite line, which begins in chap, iv., v. 5, 

 has its continuity broken by the mention at verse 8 of the 

 Ammonite line of Coz, for the purpose of introducing Jabez, whose 

 mother Zobebah was of Ammonite descent, while his here unnamed 

 father was a Hittite. As Jabez was the glory of the Hittite 

 tribes, this pre-eminence in the genealogy was doubtless the work 

 of the Kenite scribe. It cannot be said that in every case this 

 chapter gives a correct transcript of Hittite names, for Belh Zur,* 

 Beth Rapha, Ben Hannan,* and Ben Zobeth,* are at least in their 

 first elements Hebrew translations. It contains, however, the most 

 ancient, and the most truthworthy (bald as it is), history of the 

 Hittite people which the world is likely ever to possess. Without 

 this document the Hittite inscriptions would not now have been 

 deciphered, and the history of the Hittites would be an impossi- 

 bility. 



As early as the time of the Patriarch Jacob, the Hittites were in 

 possession of the kingdom of Chaldsea and of Edom. Although the 

 monuments of Chaldsea and Egypt are the oldest and best sources 

 * Descended from Jephunneh, father of Caleb. 



