518 THE HOEITEg, 



bslonged. Tlieir genealogy is given, 1 Chron. iv. 1 3, &c. In tiae nintB 

 verse of the same chapter, Jabez is more honourable than his brethren, 

 because he called on the God of Israel, not, we may conclude, on his 

 own gods, as his brethren were in the habit of doing. Jabez was no 

 Israelite. In the eighteenth ver,se, a daughter of Pharaoh naarries 

 Mered (literally the rebel), a most unlikely name for a descendant of 

 Judah. He is doubtless prince Mourhet, who is said to have married 

 a daughter of Cheops, and whose features, as represented on the 

 Egyptian monuments, are not at all Jewish.^" In the 19th verse, w© 

 read of Eshtemoa, the Maachathite ; but the Maachathites (Deut. 

 iii. 13, 2 Sam. x. 6), v/ere, "with the Geshurites, an independent 

 people, who at times warred with the Israelites. Who can throw 

 light iipon the " ancient things " of verses 21-3 1 With what king of 

 Israel do those, who had dominion in Moab, connect as his sei-vants % 

 The names of the supposed descendants of Judah are not Jewish, 

 What Jew would call his son Caleb (a dog), a name which so 

 frequently occurs and in the gi-eatest confusion 1 The family men- 

 tioned in chapter ii. 43-45, is from its names clearly Midianite, and 

 two of the names in chapter iv. 25, are Ishmaelite. The second 

 chapter, as far as the 17th vei-se, seems to contain, with a few inter- 

 polations, a record of the children of Judah ; the whole of the third 

 is taken up with the family of Da,vid; but I have no evidence, 

 beyond the words of the first verse of the fourth chapter, " The sons- 

 of Judah ; Pharez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal," that 

 the families mentioned in it were Israelites in any sense of the term. 

 The 23rd chapter of second Samuel, and the 11th chapter of the book 

 we are considering, shed some light upon the nationality of those 

 mentioned in its second and foiirth chapters. In the 54th verse of 

 the second chapter, the Netophathites are mentioned, and the Ithrites 

 in the 53rd verse, while the head of Tekoa appeal's in the fifth of 

 the fourth chapter, and a Maachathite in the nineteenth. Now, in 

 the chapters above mentioned (2 Sam. xxiii., and 1 Chron. xi.), we 

 find Maharai and Heleb, Netophatliites, Ira and Gareb, Ithrites, 

 Eliphelet, the Maachathite, and another Ira, a Tekoite. I might 

 ■■ also compare Hushah, the son of Ezer (1 Chron. iv. 4), with (2 Sam. 

 xxiii. 27 and 1 Chron. xi. 29), Mebunnai and Sibbecai, the Husha- 

 thites. It may be said that these are still Israelites, taking their 



1" Nott and Giiddon in their joint ethnological work, p. 177. Oshurn, Monn^mental History 

 I of Egypt, i. 454, seq. Lepsius' Letters, 61. 



