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ii. 53,) might have derived their name, the Ithrites of the same 

 verse coming from Tiria. It is true these are names of families con- 

 nected with the Horite Shohal, but the connection may have been by 

 marriage and not by descent. The Philistine valley of Sorek 

 (Judges xvi. 4) may follow the same rule as Sebek, which is the 

 equivalent of Shobal, and exhibit an abbreviated form of Azrikam, a 

 Levitical name (1 Chron. rs. 14; 2 Chron. xxviii. 7), like Azareel 

 and Asarelah. 



I cannot doubt that the family of Ezra (1 Chron. iv. 17,) belongs 

 to the line of Ashchur, but it has also certain connections with the 

 family of Etam in Penuel, the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father of 

 Hushah (1 Chron. iv. 4), the latter of whom may indeed be the same 

 person as Ezra, so that it may have come into the Ashchur genealo- 

 gies by marriage. In Gilead we find Jazei", which is Ezra, Gadara, 

 Succoth and Moorad. Jered's memorial is the Jordan itself, and 

 Joktheel commemorates Jekuthiel. I reserve the full consideration 

 of this family for another paper, although I may occasionally refer to 

 it in passing when its names shed light upon the story of the main 

 line. I may mention, however, that there is a Jehudijeh (1 Chron. 

 iv. 18,) in the valley of Sorek and another in Moab. 



In 1 Chron. iv. 13 we read of Kenaz and his descendants. In 

 them- 1 think I have found the posterity of Hepher, the second son 

 of Ashchur, — Kenaz being probably his son. The name designates 

 a tribe of great antiquity (Genesis xv. 19), the abode of which seems 

 to have been east of Jordan, and is doubtless the same as Kenath, a 

 town lying to the east of Hermon, now called Kanneytra. This 

 name, with other Hittite or Philistine appellations, was adopted into 

 the family of Esau, for it is borne by a son of Eliphaz. We find it^ 

 however, as the patronymic of Caleb the son of Jephunneh (Numbers 

 xxxii. 12), and accordingly he is mentioned in the genealogy of the 

 Kenezite stock (1 Chi'on. iv. 15). Ashkenaz (Genesis x. 3; Jeremiah 

 li. 27,) may, by its connection with this name, point out the ancestor 

 of the whole Ashchurite line. Gimzo (2 Chron. xxviii. 18), taken by 

 the Philistines with Timnah in the days of Ahaz, and the Gamma- 

 dims (Ezekiel xxvii. 11), soldiers of Tyre, may be corruptions of the 

 same word. Jokneam (Joshua xii. 22 ; xix. 11), near Carmel, from 

 its proximity to Hepher, may also present us with a disguised form of 

 Kenaz. Michmash (1 Samuel xiii. 2), a city of Benjamin, and Mich- 

 metha (Joshua xvi. 16), on the borders of Ephraim and Manasaeh, — 



