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Judah (Yehuddh) is not the name of an Israelitish tribe, but a 

 feminine collective to yehodeh, he confesses.^- King of Judah is 

 originally a title like the Islamic Commander of the Faithful. The 

 worship of Jhvh was introduced in Israel by David (about 1000 

 B. c.) after he had conquered the northern confederation of Israel- 

 itish tribes; but after the death of Solomon (about 930 b. c.) the 

 Israelites relapsed into their former idolatry.^^ The Israelites have 

 vanished ; they survive only, mixed with numerous foreign elements, 

 including a considerable percentage of Aryan colonists,^* in the 

 Samaritans whose number is now reduced to 170 souls. 



The Israelites were not in Egypt, but the Edomite ancestors of 

 the Jews were in Egypt (about 1230 b. c.) under the reign of 

 Merneptah,^^ whose name appears in the Old Testament as Me- 

 nephtoah.^" At that time the Israelites were settled in Palestine, 



" The relation between the participial form modeh, confessor, and the old 

 imperfect form yehodeh, he confesses, is the same as the connection between 

 the modern Jewish name Meyer (Heb. Me'ir) and the old name Jair (Heb. 

 Ya'ir) which appears in the New Testament as Jairus. 



" Compare the translation of Joshua, xxiv., 2. 14. 23, in the Polychrome 

 Bible, and the Notes, page 91, lines 3-6; also Genesis, xxxv., 2; xxxi., 19. 



" In the second half of the eighth century b. c. the Assyrian kings sent 

 Babylonian colonists from Babylon and Cutha to Samaria ; they also trans- 

 ferred there Aryan colonists from Hammath and other Galilean cities ; see 

 Orientalistische Literaturzeittmg , vol. xi., columns 237-239. 



"Canon Cheyne notes in his Encyclopadia Biblica, col. 1182, below, 

 that thirty years ago Mr. Baker Greene {Hebrew Migration, pp. 2,7. 117. 

 199. 310) brought the passage in the Anastasi papyrus (vi., 4, 14, where a 

 high official asks permission for the entrance into Egypt of tribes from the 

 land of Aduma) into connection with the settlement of Hebrew tribes, such 

 as the Josephites and, as he thought, the Kenites. — The Josephites, however, 

 were not in Egypt. The ancestors of the Israelites came from the pasture 

 grounds south of Haran in Mesopotamia, and invaded Palestine from the 

 northeast; whereas the ancestors of the Jews, who had sojourned in Egypt, 

 came from Elath, at the northeastern end of the Red Sea, and invaded Pales- 

 tine from the south. The Israelites settled in Palestine about b. c. 1400; 

 the Jews came about the end of the eleventh century. Compare below, page 

 366, line 8. 



"Heb. ma'yan me nephtoh (Joshua, xv., 9; xviii., 15) does not mean 

 The fountain of the waters of Nephtoah, but The Fountain of Me(r)neptah. 

 The modern name of this place is Liftd. In this village, about two miles 

 northwest of Jerusalem, there is a large fountain, the waters of which are 

 collected in a great walled reservoir of very early origin. The locality is 

 undoubtedly ancient. See Cheyne's Encyclopaedia Biblica, col. 3394- 



