of Anak ” ; and it seems clear that Nebo was not identical with 
Sarturda, for both are mentioned together in an inscription 
(translated by Mr. Gf. Smith) * of the date of Merodach- 
Baladan I., circ. 1320 B.C. 
92. These considerations would lead us to suppose that the 
Anakim were not, like the Zuzim and Rephaim, among the 
most ancient inhabitants of the land ; but that they were 
immigrants from Chaldma, as the Canaanitisli races in general 
appear to have been, and, as Dr. Kitto has expressed it, 
“ Cushite [or rather Canaanite ?] wanderers from Babel, and 
of the same race as the Egyptian Shepherd-kings.” 
93. The land of Anaka in this part of Palestine is mentioned 
in an inscription of Thothmes Ill.f 
94. The inhabitants of Hebron are called “the Amorite,” 
and afterwards “sons of, 'Kheth”; but they may have been 
distinguished by the local name of Amorite among the de- 
scendants of Kheth, who spread widely over the land. The 
Amorites themselves were locally subdivided, for the Jebu- 
sites are called Amorites. J 
95. It is a curious question whether the Anakim were not 
a distinguished clan among the Amorites. It seems hard to 
avoid this conclusion. The place was Kiriath-arba when 
Abraham bought the Macpelah from Ephron, and the sons of 
Anak were its masters when Joshua, and afterwards Caleb, 
captured it; and the terms in which the expulsion of the 
Amorites and of the Anakim are recorded seem to relate to 
the same transaction. It would seem that the sons of Anak 
were a tribe of the descendants of Kheth, and Amorites. It 
is observable that Abraham was on terms of friendly alliance 
with these Amorites in peace and war, although he religiously 
eschewed connection with them in marriage for his son ; and 
in the words of the covenant of Jehovah, the time when the 
sons of Abraham should come again into Canaan was post- 
poned to the fourth generation, with the reason given, that 
“ the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full ” ; as if in contrast 
with the iniquity of the men of the Jordan plain, which was 
running over. 
96. There is, I think, an inclusion of the Amorites among 
the Khita in the Egyptian records. But the Kadesh of the 
country of Amaor is distinguished from the Kadesh on the 
Orontes, the great fastness of the northern Khita. This stood 
* Assyrian Die., 239. t Records , ii. 39. 
4 Maspero, Hist. Anc., 193, and see Josh. x. 5. 
