THE SHEPHERD KINGS OP EGYPT. ITT' 



connection with this Korah, whose name signifies ice. Tappnah named 

 at least two towns, one in Judah (Joshua xii. IT ; xv. 34,) and 

 another on the borders of Ephraim and Manasseh (Joshua xvi. 8). 

 We have ah-eacly found Rekem as the name of a Midianite king 

 (Joshua xiii. 21), but he was much later than the son of Hebron. 

 There is a Rakem in the line of Manasseh (1 Chron. vii. 16), as there 

 are Laadah-like names in the fiunily of Ephiuim, suggesting some 

 relationship between the houses of Joseph and Mareshah. In Benjamin. 

 (Joshua xviii. 27,) we find a town called Rekem. The son of liekem 

 was Shammai. Many persons bore this name; among others a son of 

 Onam mentioned in the same chapter (1 Chron. ii. 28), and a 

 descendant of Ezra (1 Chron. iv. 17). Little, thei-efore, can be gleaned 

 from it but the possibility of some connection among the families in 

 which it is found. Maon has already been under considei'ation. 

 Beth Zur is mentioixed (Joshua xv. 58) as not far from Hebron, 

 Beth-Tappuah and Maon. It was one of the cities rebuilt or fortified 

 by Eehoboam (2 Chron. xi. 7), Mareshah and Hebron being two. 

 others. Shema, the brother of Rekem, may, from the form of his 

 name, containing as it does a final ayin, have been the progenitor of 

 the Shimeathites of 1 Chron. ii. 55 ; but this honour he must at 

 present share in hope with Shema of Joel (1 Chron. v. 8,) and Shema 

 of Elpaal (I Chron. Adii. 13). There was a town of this name in the 

 south of Judah (Joshua xv. 26). He was the fataer of Eaham, a 

 form that appears once more in the Kehum who ruled under 

 Artaxerxes in Samaria (Ezra iv. 8), with whose name it may or may 

 not have relations. But Jorkoam, the son of Raham, in all likelihood 

 gave Rakkon and Mejarkon to the territory of Dan, and pei'haps 

 Rakkath to ISTaphtali (Joshua xix. 46, 35), The Zerka river of 

 travellers in the Ploly Land, which they place between Joppa and 

 Dor, must be a reminiscence of the "yellow" stream which Jorkoam 

 named, and a still more perfect form of which is presented in the 

 Zerka Main of the land of Moab that fljows into the Dead Sea. 



The eight families passed in review are intimately connected in the 

 history of Egypt and of the so-called Shepherd Kings, both in that 

 land and in Palestine and the surrounding countries. Those of 

 Jerahmeel and Etam (1 Chron. ii. 25 ; iv. 3,) also appear in the 

 history, but more obscurely and in a manner that does not waiTant 

 the complications which would necessarily arise from their introduc- 

 tion at this time. 



