Who were the Kenites?

tonychanyt · Oct 19, 2024

They were around at the time of Abram, Genesis 15:

18 On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates, 19the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, 20the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, 21the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites and the Jebusites.”

Moses’ father-in-law, Jethro, was a Kenite, Judges 1:

16 The descendants of Moses’ father-in-law, the Kenite, went up from the City of Palms with the people of Judah to live among the inhabitants of the Desert of Judah in the Negev near Arad.

Jael was a Kenite. She was immortalized in Judges 5:

24“Most blessed of women be Jael,
the wife of Heber the Kenite,
most blessed of tent-dwelling women.

Jael wasn't an Israelite but Deborah and Barak praised her.

25He asked for water, and she gave him milk;
in a bowl fit for nobles she brought him curdled milk.
26 Her hand reached for the tent peg,
her right hand for the workman’s hammer.
She struck Sisera, she crushed his head,
she shattered and pierced his temple.
27 At her feet he sank,
he fell; there he lay.
At her feet he sank, he fell;
where he sank, there he fell—dead.

God used a female judge, Deborah, and a non-Israelite woman, Jael, to destroy a Canaanite army and its general, Sisera.

The Rechabites were Kenites, 1 Chronicles 2:

55b These are the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of the Rechabites.

Some Kenites lived with the Israelites and, at times, played important roles in Israel's history.

KevinT · Nov 16, 2024

tonychanyt said:
Some Kenites lived with the Israelites and, at times, played important roles in Israel's history.

I find it interesting that today we tend to think about people as members of countries. We say, he is German, or she is French. But it seems that then they counted people by their ancestry. So in a given city, there could be those identified instead by their tribal ancestry. A Kenite here, a Hittite there.

KT

Search

Search

We hope the site problems here are now solved, however, if you still have any issues, please start a ticket in Contact Us

Who were the Kenites?

tonychanyt

24/7 Christian

More options

KevinT

Well-Known Member

More options

Similar threads