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■are derived from Paseach. It is also very likely that Pisgah of 

 Moab (Numbers xxi. 20, &c.,) comes from the same word, and that 

 Ashdoth prefixed to it is a form of Eshton. With Paseah as a son 

 of Eshton we find Tehinnah, the father or founder of the unknown 

 Ir-Nahash. In Numbers xxvi. 35 and I Chron. vii. 25 we have a 

 Tahan given as a descendant of Ephraim, who, strange to say, 

 descends from a Rephah. Tochen, a town of the Simeonites (1 Chron. 

 ■iv. 32), may have taken its name from Tehinnah. Taanath Shiloh 

 (Joshua xvi. 6), a region in Ephraim, might possibly be a reminis- 

 "Cence of Tahan or Tochen in the south. It is said concerning this 

 family, " these are the men of Recliah." The word Rechah may be 

 the same as Archi, a town's name in Ephraim (Joshua xvi. 2), from 

 which, or from the family represented by which, Hushai the friend 

 of David came (2 Samuel xv. 32). Since Thapsacus is derived from 

 Paseach, it is not impt-obable that the Archevites of Ezra iv. 9 are 

 also the men of Rechah. 



The only other family to which I at present direct attention is 

 one that is twice mentioned in the Book of Chronicles, that of 

 Mareshah. In 1 Chron. iv. 21 he is made the son of Laadah, and 

 represented as a grandson of Shelah, the son of Judah, by the 

 daughter of Shuah, the Canaanite. In 1 Chron. ii. 42 his childrea 

 are counted to Caleb, the brother of Jerahmeel, along with Mesha, 

 the father of Ziph, who has already been under consideration. The 

 only son who is definitely given him is Hebron, but from this son 

 <;ame Korah, Tappuah, Rekem and Shema. Three generations are 

 reckoned fx'om Rekem, — Shammai, Maon and Beth-Zur. Two are 

 reckoned from Shenia, — Raham and Jorkoam. The name Laadah 

 does not occur again, but Laadan is a son of Tahan, the Ephraimite 

 (1 Chron. vii. 26), and appears also among the Levites (1 Chron. 

 xxiii. 7, &c.) Similar Jiames in the family of Ephraim are Eladah 

 and Elead (1 Chron. vii. 20, 21). Merodach Baladan in the second 

 part of his title agrees somewhat in form with Laadah, the first part 

 being a corruption of Mareshah. Eldaah, a son of Midian, bears a 

 somewhat similar name, and the Midianite character of Rekem and 

 Zur have already been alluded to. It is quite possible that the Zur 

 here given as a son of Maon might be the Zur of Numbers xxv. 15^ 

 .taking Laadah as the same person with Eldaah. 



