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name for tlie son of Sliobal, for Gesenius makes it to mean " wiiom " 

 Jeliovah cares for," admitting, however, that Haroeh designates the^ 

 same 'person. We have in Alvan and Reaiah two words denoting 

 supreme deity. I would only present one additional proof, at this 

 stage, of the identity of Alvan and E,ea,iah, II and E.a. It is found ,■ 

 in connection with the history of Sanchoniatho. Jehid or Jeoud is !' 

 named as the son of Ilus, whom he sacrificed to his father Ouranos, \ 

 E,ightly the son of E.«aiah bears the corresponding name Jahath. 

 AH that I demand at present is a belief in the probability that tLe 

 Horite Shobal, with his sons Alvan and Manahath, is the same as 

 tlie Shobal, son of Hur, whose children are E,oeh and Manahath. 

 The identification of the Ilus and the Jehid of Sanchoniatho with 

 the Roeh or Reaiah and Jahatli of Chronicles is important but not 

 absolutely necessary for the burden of proof. 



IV. — In this family (that of Shobal) we find many of the 

 divinities and some of the earliest rulers of lower and- 

 Upper Egypt. 



It is now, I think, generally conceded that the earliest population 

 ' of Egypt entered from the north-east, and must, therefore, if it came 

 by land, as is most likely, have passed through the country of the 

 Horites, and have dwelt for a time, probably, in the south-western 

 corner of Palestine, about the kingdom of Gerar, visited by Abraham 

 and Isaac, but of which we hear nothing in later times. Tlie Scrip- 

 tures call Egypt Mizraim, and we are therefore justified in believing 

 that the son of Ham of that name was one of the earliest settlers in 

 the land. But it is to be remarked that no race, royal or princely, 

 in Egypt, ever claimed descent from this ancestor. The connection 

 ' of Mizraim with Menes and others is sheer unfounded hypothesis, 

 and I shall yet show that Chemi, a name of this ancient country, 

 bears no reference, as it is often supposed to do, to Ham himself. 

 My own impression, I do not say decided conviction, is that the 

 Hamites, if they exercised sovereign authority at all, did so for a 

 very short time and during a peiiod which is unhistorical, after which 

 they became the subjects of a superior race. Many writers, with 

 Shuckford, have supposed the Horites to be the invaders of Egypt, 

 known as the Shepherd Kings. ^" That they did invade Egypt can 

 .be clearly proved, but it was at an eai-lier period than that of the 



- 15 Shucliforcl's Connection of Sacred and Profane Historj'. Original edition, ii. 23G, 



