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investigators -witli more time and greater appliances at their disposal 

 will, I trust, soon afford ns information regarding Ethnan and liis 

 family. 



There are many names of Egyptian monarchs remaining, and some 

 of them we must yet consider. Others, -which belong to the families 

 of Jerahmeel and Onam — such as Cheres of Manetho's fifth dynasty, 

 who, I think, is Eker (1 Chron. ii. 27) ; Tlas of the second, who is 

 Jediael (1 Chron. vii. 6, 10) ; and Amchura found at Abousir, who is 

 Abishur, grandson of Onam or Onnos (1 Chron. ii. 28, 29) ; together 

 with Harphre or Cerpheres of Manetho's third, who is Hareph, the 

 father of Beth Gader (1 Chron. ii. 51) — I must keep for a future 

 paper on their respective lines, none of which, except that of Hareph, 

 has intimate relations with the Ashchurites. The family of Ezra 

 (1 Chron. iv. 17, (fee), to which I have alluded, I must also for the 

 present pass by, merely stating that the well known prince Mourhet 

 is the Mered who is there said to have married a daughter of 

 Pharaoh, and that Jered is the Rathures or Jered-ra of Manetho's 

 fifth dynasty, the Sakha or Succoth of Egypt being derived fi-om the 

 Socho of which his bi'other Heber was loxxl, he being also the 

 Egyptian Heber-Scot of the Irish and Scotch ti'aditions, and an 

 ancestor of the Scyths. As for the line of Chelub, the brother of 

 Bhuah (1 Chron. iv. 11), all that I can say is that it has intimate 

 connections with the Shepherd stock, Chelub being the Chalbes who 

 was the herald of Busiris according to the so-called myth already 

 quoted, Mechir giving his name to an Egyptian month, the Beth 

 Rapha of verse 1 2 furnishing the house of Raphahes so often spoken 

 of under the Sesortasens, and the othei- names occurring in connection 

 with them upon the monuments. Nevopth, who appears as a high 

 functionary under Sesortasen II., is the ancestor of the Netophathites 

 (1 Chron. ii. 54), and the name of his son Nahrai long survived in 

 the family, as we find by the mention of Maharai the Netophathite 

 (2 Samuel xxiii. 28). Let it not be supposed that these are mere 

 verbal connections. I have evi«lence for them all, almost if not quite as 

 strong as that which I believe I have conclusively shewn for the con- 

 nection of the sons of Ashchur. I believe also that the Rebo, a tribe 

 inimical to the later Pharaohs, are the Anakim of Arba, who ruled in 

 Hebron or Kirjath Arba. This gathers probability from the fact that 

 they were allied with the Tocchari who took their name from Zohar the 

 father of Ephron, who dwelt in the same place in the time of 

 Abraham. The children of Coz and Mareshah, the father of Hebron, , 

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