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G-entile families wliicli originally bore them. It is possible that 

 Barachel the Buzite niaj be descended from the Buz of 1 Chron. v. 

 14, who is reckoned among the Gadites, and who dwelt in the land of 

 Gilead. Karkor in the same region, already connected with the 

 family of Sheth, and Karkaa in the south of Palestine (Joshua xv. 3), 

 may not unreasonably be supposed to relate to this distinguished 

 name as well as the Kirs of Moab. Maralah in Zebulun (Joshua xix. 

 11,) strengthens the evidence already afforded by the presence of 

 Cozite names in the territoiy of that tribe. Nergal, the god of the 

 Outhites (2 Kings xvii. 30), is appropriately mentioned in that part of 

 Scripture, together with his near relative Nibhaz of the Avites. The 

 Outhites are themselves not improbably the descendants of Coz. 

 David sent presents of his spoil to the people of Rachal, a town in 

 the south of Judah, who are distinguished from the Israelites equally 

 with the Jerahmeelites and Kenites. Taralah of Benjamin (Joshua 

 xviii. 27), mentioned together with the valley of Keziz, may be a 

 later form of the name of Aharhel. It has the local prefix which we 

 find in Taanach and other names of places derived from proper names, 

 and which may be the remnant of the Coptic J^it. The only other 

 member of the family of Coz, or whom we maj^ presume to be of his 

 family, is Jabez. In the last verse of 1 Chron. ii. we read of a place 

 called Jabez, inhabited by three families of Kenite scribes. This 

 place is mentioned nowhere else in the Bible. There is, however, a 

 Thebez (Judges ix. 50,) near Shechem, which is of the same form. I 

 am convinced, however, that the Jabez mentioned in 1 Chron. ii. 55 

 is Thebes in Egypt, which is read in hieroglyphic without the T 

 prefix, and which is the city of Ammon, the father of Coz, and 

 ancestor of him who was more honourable than his brethren, the 

 Palestinian Thebez being a mere reminiscence of the earlier Egyptian 

 city. A shortened and corrupted form of the name of Jabez is found 

 in the Jabesh by which a portion of Gilead was distinguished from, 

 other portions (Judges xxi. 8, &c). Abez in Issachar (Joshua xix. 

 20,) is a nearer and moi-e natural variation of Jabez. Many names 

 in Jiph, such as Jiphtah, may be derived from this word. A 

 hardened form of Jabez, with the common affix el, would furnish us 

 with Kabzeel or Jekabzeel (Joshua xv. 21 ; 2 Samuel xxiii. 20; 

 Kehem. xi. 25). This is the more probable, since in Ephraim near 

 Thebez, if it be not identical with it, there was a Kibzaim (Joshua 

 xxi. 22). Magbish, mentioned along with Nebo (Ezra ii. 30), has the 



