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and Jephunneh. In I. Chronicles iv., 22, dominion in Moab is 

 expressly assigned to some bearing Kenite names. The last verse 

 of the second chapter incidentally gives the authors of the Hittite 

 record. It says "The families of the scribes which dwelt at 

 Jabez ; the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and Suchathites. These 

 are the Kenites that came of Hamath, the father of the House of 

 Eechab." In the seventeenth and eighteenth verses of the fourth 

 chapter, it is stated that Mered married Eitbiah, a daughter 

 of Pharaoh (Cheops), Ziph of the Bible, and a contemporary 

 of Jacob and Esau. He was a Hittite, and had established 

 himself apparently at Memphis, and compelled his enslaved 

 Mizraite subjects to build the Great Pyramid at the neighbouring 

 Gizeh, also the stone causeway to ib, which Herodotus regarded as 

 an equally wonderful achievement. His entrance into Egypt makes 

 the beginning of Hittite sovereignty in that land. The names Jether 

 and Heber, which are associated with Ziph and his son-in-law Mered, 

 whom the Egyptian inscriptions knew as Prince Merhet in the 

 record, appears afterwards among the later Kenites, as well as Jethro, 

 the father-in-law of Moses, and Heber, the husband of Jael. The 

 city with which the Book of Chronicles associates the scribes of the 

 genealogical record is Jabez, the Hebrew form of which is Yabetz ; 

 there is no such name in Palestine, but the Egyptian name for 

 Thebes is Apit, which becomes Thebes by the feminine affix of t, or 

 ta ; the Egyptian alphabet does not possess the letter 2, for which 

 t is substituted. We have it in the name of the great Hycsos, or 

 Shepherd King Aahpeti (Jabez), who transferred the University 

 from Memphis to Thebes, where the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, 

 and the Suchathites of Memphis continued to be the masters 

 of inscriptions and historiography. They would be acquainted 

 with the records of the great Hittite Empire, with which the 

 adjoining populations had such close relations. These records 

 began prior to the reign of Cheops, and continued within 

 a hundred years or less of the Exodus. The history of 

 the rebellion of the Hittite tribes against Chedorlaomer after 

 twelve years' subjection, their defeat in the slime pits of the 



