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whetlier tliat inspiration regard matter of docti-ine or of history. 

 In the meanwhile, I assume the correctness of our present Hebrew 

 version of the first book of Chronicles, and, to account for the 

 presence of the Gentile names which I find in the fii^st few chapters, 

 suggest the following hypotheses : 



1. Together with the descendants of the sons of Jacob, there may 

 have been included in the lists their connections by marriage. — This? 

 except in the case of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh, and the 

 Kenites (Judges iv. 11), who should have been numbered among the 

 descendants of Levi rather than of Judah, I cannot perceive. 



2. Or, together loith them, there may have been included a mixed 

 multitude of other races that had suffered oppression along with them 

 in Egypt, and had part in their deliverance. — This might help to 

 satisfy Dr. Colenso's doubts, and is true in so far as the Kenites and 

 some of the Kenezites are concerned. It must, however, make the 

 list retrospective, giving the ancestors of these fugitives back to or 

 beyond the time of Abraham. Even thus, my investigations have 

 shewn me that it will not account for all the lines mentioned, many 

 of whom had little or no late connection with Palestine. 



3. Or — aivd this I think is the truth — Southern Palestine loas the 

 great centre of a later dispersion than that of Babel, being the highway 

 to Egypt and Arabia, Syria, and Asia Minor ; and the Mosaic narra- 

 tive, looking rather to geographical than tribal descent, gives here the 

 eponyms of the various states and cities into the possession of which 

 Israel entered. — There is a significance Avhich we do not yet under- 

 stand in the words of Moses (Deut. xxxii. 7, 8), " Remember the 

 days of old, consider the years of many generations ; ask thy father 

 and he will shew thee ; thy elders and they will tell thee. When 

 the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he 

 separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people accord- 

 ing to the number of the children of Israel." This hypothesis will 

 account for the immense disproportion between the number of the 

 descendants of Judah and those of the other tiibes supposed to be 

 placed on record in these chapters, since they occupied the larger por- 

 tion of Southern Palestine ; although it is true (Numbers i. 27) that 

 the children of Judah were more numerous than those of any other 

 of the sons of Jacob. I now proceed to find among the names con- 

 nected with the mention of this tribe one of the families of the 



