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17). The form of the name which we find in Talmon at once leads 

 to Telem or Telaim (Joshua xv. 24 ; 1 Samuel xv. 4), in the south of 

 Palestine near or in the region of the Geshurites. The connection of 

 the remnant of the valley with Ashkelon (Jeremiah xlvii. 5), the 

 fact of Eschol being near Hebron or Kirjath Ai'ba (Numbers 

 xiii. 22, 23,) and of its earliest name being Mamre (Genesis xiii. 

 18), together with the identity of Aner and Taanach (Joshua 

 xxi. 25 J comp. 1. Chron. vi. 70), would almost lead to a suspicion 

 that the Amoritas, Aner, Eschol and Mamre (Genesis xiv. 24,) 

 had contributed to the Philistine stock. 



Still another sub-family, more important however in some respects 

 than any yet under consideration, is that of Coz (1 Chron. iv. 8), the 

 mention of which immediately follows the notice of the sons of Ash- 

 ■chur. This Coz was not a son of any Ashchurite, but a grandson of 

 one of them, his father being Ammon, the son of Lot, who married a 

 Hittite wife. There seems to be evidence that Coz himself married 

 Ziphah the daughter of Jehaleleel, from which connection the name 

 of his own daughter ^obebah may have arisen, his son being Anub, 

 or, giving to the ayin its full value, Ganub. Fi-om him also are 

 derived the families of Aharhel or Acharchel, the son of Harum, 

 and in all probability the Jabez of the ninth verse, who alone ia 

 deemed worthy of special commendation. The name of Koz sui'vived 

 in the tribe of Levi (1 Chron. xxiv. 10 ; Ezra ii. 61, &c.), and there 

 Was a valley of Keziz in Benjamin (Joshua xviii. 21). We may 

 also find it in Hukkok (Joshua xix. 34), a town of Naphtali or 

 Asher, along with which occurs Hammon (1 Chron. vi. 76). More 

 natural, however, is the connection with Eth or Ittah-Kazui, a town 

 of Zebulun. Kattath (Joshua xix. 15), another town of Zebulun 

 may simply present a difiei-ent form of the same root. There is a 

 Kirjath Chuzoth in Moab (Numbers xxii. 39), which might possibly 

 be a reminiscence of the son of Ammon, and a Makaz in Dan 

 (1 Kings iv. 9). Many recently discovered names in Palestine and 

 the country of Ammon present points of resemblance more or less 

 complete with that of Coz. His son Anub gave its name to a town 

 in the mountains of Judah, inhabited at one time by the Anakim 

 (Joshua xi. 21 ; xv. 50). The nearest name of a person is that of a 

 son of Hadad the Edomite, by Tahpenes the daughter of Pharaoh 

 (1 Kings xi. 20,) called Genubath. I think it not impossible that 

 Nebo of Moab (Numbers xxxii. 3 ; Isaiah xv. 2 ; xlvi. 1,) and Nebo 



