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snany similar names in Syria and Asia Minor, remind" us of Ezer. 

 Like correspondences are found with, tlie remaining eponyms of the 

 Horite family. The question has often been asked, Whence came 

 the Phcenicians, that ancient and distinguished people 1 Herodotus 

 and other writers tell iis that their own account brought' them from 

 the shores of the Red Sea.''* Now, on these shores we find the Beni- 

 Jaakan of the sons of Ezer, and this compound word, not the Beni- 

 Anakim of Bochart, is the original of the national designation- 

 Phoenician.® It may seem that thus I reduce all the civilized peoples 

 of the world to one ancestry, and represent the Horites as the one 

 people of antiquity, in the same way as older writers have dealt with 

 their Arkites, Atlantides, Cushites, &c. This, however, is not the 

 case. There are, at least, six other families of little less importance,- 

 and many more which, contributed largely to early civilization, that. 

 I bope in time to bring under the notice of the student of ancient 

 history.® That we find the Horites, or reminiscences of them, in 

 nearly every country need not be matter of surprise, for what has 

 been often remarked in regard to the mixture of peoples in the popu- 

 lations of Greece and India is true of almost every land possessing a 

 history. There is no such thing as a pure civilized I'ace. 



III. — One family of the Horites appears, in a somewhat; 



DISGUISED FORM, IN THE SECOND AND FOURTH CHAPTERS OF THE-. 

 FIRST BOOK OF CHRONICLES, AND THERE FURNISHES THE LINK OP 

 CONNECTION WITH OTHER HISTORIES THAN THAT OP THE BiBLE. 



A serious objection assails me upon the threshold of proof. I^- is 

 this. The second chapter, and part of the fourth, of the first book 

 of Chronicles profess to contain tbo genealogies of the sons of Judah, 

 Under what pretence, then, can I introduce the Horites 1 I answer, 

 tipon several good grounds. In the first place, mention is made in 

 tbese genealogies of men who certainly were not Jews. Such (1 Ch. 

 ii. 55) are the Kenites, that came of Hemath, the father of the house 

 of Rechab, a line mentioned in the second verse of the 35th chapter of 

 Jeremiah. Such, also, are the Kenezites, first mentioned in. the 19th 

 verse of the 15 th chapter of Genesis, and to whom Caleb, the son of 

 Jephunneh (Numbers xxxii. 12, Joshua xiv. 6), is said to have 



1* Herodot. vii. 89, Strabonis Geog., 766. 



8 Bochart, Canaan i. i. 347. 



9 Such are the sons of Salma and Hareph (1 Chron. ii. 51, 64), the Jerahmeelites (ii. 25), the 

 children of Etam (iv. 3), of Ashchur (iy. 5), of Coz (iv. 8), of Kenaz (Iv. .13), of Ezra (iv. 17), &c^ 



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