Kenite

In the Kenites (Hebrew: הַקֵּינִ֔י ) it was a nomadic tribe probably from the Transjordan and the Negev, which is mentioned several times in the Bible. According to Num 24:21 EU Cain was their progenitor.

Gen 15:19 EU expects the Kenites to the eleven pre-Israelite peoples whose land will ( " from the river of Egypt to the [ ... ] Euphrates " ) promised to the descendants of Abraham. In the very similar list of seven nations to consecrate the Israelites after the entry into the Promised Land of the destruction (Dt 7,1 EU), they are missing, however.

Num 10.29 to 32 EU reported Hobab, the son of Moses' father, Reuel the Midianite ( = Jethro ). Here Moses asks his brother in law because of its good local knowledge aim is to lead the Israelites in their train from Mount Sinai through the desert. Apparently came Hobab the request, after some initial hesitation, after.

In Ri 1.16 EU will now be mentioned that there was a Kenite, Moses' father -in-law when, and that his sons were involved after the death of Joshua as an ally of the tribe of Judah, to the conquest of Israel. Thereafter, however, the Kenites separated again by them and moved to the country of the Amalekites. Since Moses' father is otherwise dubbed as " priest of Midian " (under the name Reuel in Ex 2.18 EU, otherwise under the name Jethro ) keeping the Kenites for a subset, or a clan of Midian.

Ri 4.11 EU reported by Heber the Kenite, " who had separated from Cain, of the sons Hobabs, the father in law of Moses ." His wife Jael killed, according to Ri 4.17 to 24 EU the generals Sisera from Hazor, by driving it with a sledge-hammer a tent peg through his temple. The " Deborahlied " praises the deed of Jael (Judg. 5.24 to 27 EU). Especially on this text, the idea of the Kenites supported as a clan of nomadic forges.

According to 1 Sam 15.6 EU sent King Saul the Kenites a warning before he attacked the Amalekites, and gave them the opportunity to leave the area in time, " for you have behave friendly to all the Israelites when they came up out of Egypt. " Saul also spared Agag the king, and not all the cattle consecrated the fall, he lost the favor of the " kingmaker " Samuel, who then turned to the young David.

1 Chr 2,55 EU mentioned kenitische clan associations " of Hammath, the father of Beth- Rechab, came. " They lived apparently among the descendants of Caleb in the tribe of Judah. Thus it was also with the Rechabites, relying on Jonadab the son of Rechab, led back to relatives of the Kenites. The prophet Jeremiah in Jer 35.1 to 19 EU commends the Rechabites for their obedience to the commandments of their ancestors, who had forbidden the use of wine, and the sedentary lifestyle with agriculture and viticulture. (See: Jabal, the ancestor of all " who dwell in tents and in the livestock ", and his half-brother Tubal- Cain, who " forged the devices of all ore and iron workers " )