170 THE SHEPHERD KINGS OF EGYPT. 



both of these names designate portions of the great Philistine stocK;- 

 Geographical connections liave ah-eady been found for the father of " 

 Anak. His own name surrived in Taanach in the region of Carrael 

 (Joshua xii. 21). the king of which fell before Joshua, but out of 

 wliich the inhabitants were not expelled by the Israelites (Judges i. 

 27). In the last passage quoted and in 1 Kings iv. 12, Taanach ia 

 joined with Beth Shean, as also in Joshua xvii. 11. The latter town- 

 was in the possession of the Philistines (1 Samuel xxxi. 10), and in 

 the Septuagint version, at Judges i. 27, is called Scythopolis. Itt' 

 Jeremiah xlviii. 45, which contains a quotation of the same song that 

 appears in Numbers xxi. 27, united with the prophecy of Balaam- 

 (Numbers xxi v. 16), the "sons of Sheth" (Numbers xxiv. 17) ia 

 rendered "sons of Shaon," and is translated in our English version 

 " the tumultuous ones." The preceding expi-ession '' crown of the" 

 head," or " Kadkod," should, I think, plainly be Karkor, the name of 

 a place east of Jordan (Judges viii. 10), with which Kir of Moab^ 

 Kircheres or Kerrek, as it is now called, may connect. The sons of 

 Sheth are the Philistines or Phili-Sheth, as the Hebi'ew gives it, and 

 the land of Moab where they first dwelt contained a region called 

 the valley of Shittim (Numbers xxv. 1 ; Joshua ii. 1 ; iii. 1 j Joel iii. 

 18 ; Micah vi. 5). The fact of the Shittah being the acacia by no- 

 means interferes with this ethnic connection, for the acacia ever 

 remained the sacred tx-ee of the Shethites, and in its very name of 

 acacia commemorates the eldest son of Ashchur. I may mention in 

 passing that Sheth and Baal are found as convertible terms, as in the 

 case of Jerubbaal (Judges vi. 32), Eshbaal (1 Chron. viii. 33), and 

 Meribbaal, who are also named Jerubbesheth (2 Samuel xi. 21), 

 Ishbosheth and Mephibosheth (2 Samuel ii. 8 ; iv. 4). To return to 

 the Arbathites, we find no reminiscence of Sheshai, the eldest son 

 of Anak ; but Achiman may be the progenitor of the Hachmonites 

 {1 Chron. xi. 11), and some unknown city derived from him may have 

 furnished the Tachmonites (2 Samtiel xxiii. 8). Talmai appears again as. 

 the name of a king of Geshur (2 Samuel iii. 3 ; xiii. 37). There is a 

 Geshiir connected with the Philistines (Joshua xiii. 2 ; 1 Samuel 

 xxvii. 8), but with which the latter were sometimes at war. The 

 Geshur of which the Talmais were kings was in the north at the 

 foot of Hermon, near Maachah (Deut. iii. 14; Joshua xiii. 13; 

 1 Chron. ii. 23). It is rather remarkable that the names of Ahiman 

 yand Talmon appear among the porters of the tabernacle (1 Chron. ix. 



