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found liis way to Assyria. Some of liis descendants, or those among 

 whom his descendants wei'e the prominent ch^ss, became the mer- 

 cenary soldiers of David, being knoAvn as Pelethites.''^ The Assyrian 

 annals seem to give to Harum the son of Ahban, a daughter of 

 Peleth as his wife, but other records tend to shew that a son-in-law 

 of Peleth's was Achishachar or Shacharaim, the grandson of Jediael, 

 the son of Jamin the Jerachmeelite, and the father of Ahitub and 

 Elpaal ; of the latter of whom came Eber, Misham and Shamed, 

 the biiiklers of Ono in Palestine. ^^ As the children of Shacharaim, 

 the Sanscrit Sarameya, were born in Moab, their story does not 

 necessarily connect with Egypt ; yet Echescus-karas, in the list of 

 Syncelliis, has links that seem to associate him with the son-in-law 

 of Peleth. 



I have already stated my belief that Ammon married Abiliail, the 

 widow of the murdered Abishur, and that thus his son Coz or Chons 

 was contemporary with Ahban and Molid, and therefore Avith their 

 second cousins Peleth and Zaza. This contemporaneousness at least 

 is confirmed by the statement that in the reign of Assis and Khons, 

 the calf became an object of worship." The Susian connection of 

 Armais or Har-em-heb, and later Egyptian monarchs, must be found 

 in their relations with either Coz or Zaza.''* I am inclined to think 

 that Zaza heads the Su.sian line ; that Memnon or Meonothai some- 

 how connects with him ; and that Paltos, vdiich was reputed to be 

 the place of his burial, is a Phoenician reminiscence of his ancestor's 

 brother, Peleth. '" 



One other alliance with a daughter of the Onite line is worthy of 

 note. There is monumental evidence that a prince Cephrenes mar- 



'1 2 Sam. viii. 18 ; xv. 18 ; xx. 7, 23. 



'2 1 Chron. viii. 18. The uniou of Lod with Ono seems to point to the Horitc connection of 

 Eber, eto., rather than the Jerachmeelite. Lod represents Lahad the brother of Achumai and 

 Lydus of Lydia. Bilhan, the name of the father of Shaharaim, and who is given as the only son 

 Oi Jediael, may, as a purely Horite appellation (Gen. xxxvi. 27; 1 Chron. i. 42. Compare Zaavan, 

 Akan, Hemdan, Eshban, Itliran, Cheran, Dishan, Lotan, Alvan, in the same genealogies) refer 

 to the son of Ezer, and indicate an alliance of the Horite and Jerachmeelite lines in a daughter 

 . of Jediael, from whom, as of superior dignity, the sons of Bilhan chose to count their descent. 



" VkU Galloway, Egypt's Record, 234. 



7* The Susian connection appears in the Babylonian Identifieations of Harum and Acharchel 

 with Armaunu and Nergal and the Greek story of the Susian Memnon. But it is also visible 

 iu Sesou an epithet of Rameses II. according to M. de Rouge, in an article contributed to the 

 Atheneum Prangais, 1856, part of which is appended as a note to M. de Lanoye's little book on 

 Eameses. Lack of material prevents me from doing more than asking the cxuestion of 

 Egyptologers, into whose hands this paper may come, "Whether the king named Skhai, Eesa, 

 Ai, who is given as the ancestor of the first Rameses, be not identical with Assis or Assa 

 Tankera and with Zaza,, the son of Jonathan ?" 



'5 Strabo, xv. 3, 4, 



