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names from tlie towns tliey inhabited. If so, why is Ittai (2 Sam., 

 xxiii. 29) called a Benjamite, Bani (2 Sam. xxiii. 36) a Gadite, and 

 Adina (1 Chron. xi. 42) a Eeubenitel It cannot be said that Zelek, 

 the Ammonite, Ithmah, the Moabite, Nahari, the Beerothite, and 

 Uriah, the Hittite, who are mentioned (2 Sam. xxiii. 37, 39, 

 1 Chron. xi. 46) together with them, are Israelites. There is more 

 historic truth than men are aware of in the words of the Apostle 

 Paul, " For they are not all Israel which are of Israel." It is plain, 

 not only that many had, like Caleb, part and lot with Israel in the 

 land of promise who were not descendants of Abraham, but that the 

 kingdom of Isi'ael, in the time of David, consisted of a number of 

 different nationalities. The line of Jerahm.eel, which is given in 

 1 Chron. ii. 25-41, is not an Abrahamic family, although I do not 

 deny that there may have been a Jerahmeel in the line of Judah. 

 We meet with these Jerahmeelites in 1 Sam. xxvii. 10, wliere David 

 is represented as telling Achish that he had made a road against the 

 south of Judah, and against the south of the Jerahmeelites, and 

 against the south of the Kenites, as if they were three distinct 

 peoples. ■ Also, in the 30th chapter, the Jerahmeelites and the 

 Kenites are spoken of as dwelling in cities, while the same is not said 

 of any of his confederates and friends to whom David sent presents__ 

 In comiection with this passage, as showing the position of Caleb the 

 Kenezite, we find (verse 14) the Egyptian slave deserted by the 

 Amalekites saying, " We made an invasion upon the south of the 

 Cherethites, and upon the coast which belongeth to Judah, and upon 

 the south of Caleb." The Cherethites have been clearly sheAvn, and 

 are now generally allowed to have been, Cretans ; and Caleb's 

 descendants are no less thoroughly distingaiished from the people of 

 Judah than are these Japhetic warriors. 



I might dwell upon the antiquity of Bethlehem Ephratah, which 

 (1 Chron. ii. 19, 24, 50) derives its name from Ephrath, the wife of 

 Caleb, the father or son of Hur, for there is contradiction, here ; an 

 antiquity which is well shewn (Gen. xxxv. 16, 19) by its possessing 

 that name in the time of Jacob. Yet Caleb is the great-grandson of 

 Ju<lah by a very late connection. It is somewhat strange that none 

 of the great names of these genealogies, if we except the immediate 

 descendants of Judah, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, ever appear 

 in any other part of the Bible. With the exception of the ancestors 

 «f David, and the families of the Levites in the sixth chapter, the 



