A nomadic people who settled in the Palestine region. They are believed to be descendants of Cain.
Numbers 24:21Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted, until Asshur carries you away captive.”Numbers 24:22He took up his parable, and said, “Alas, who shall live when God does this?
1 Chronicles 2:55The families of scribes who lived at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and the Sucathites. These are the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.
모세의 장인 이드로가 겐 사람이었으며, 이들의 후손은 계속해서 이스라엘 사람들과 어울려 지냈다.
Judges 1:16Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they struck the Canaanites who inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. The name of the city was called Hormah.
사사 시대때 하솔(가나안 도시)과의 전쟁에서 도움을 준 것을 미뤄보면, 이스라엘 민족과 다른 가나안 민족들과 양쪽과 친분이 있었던 것으로 보인다.
Judges 4:11They told Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to Mount Tabor.
Judges 4:17Jael) went out to meet Sisera, and said to him, “Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; don’t be afraid.” He came in to her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug.Judges 4:18He said to her, “Please give me a little water to drink; for I am thirsty.” She opened a container of milk, and gave him a drink, and covered him.Judges 4:19He said to her, “Stand in the door of the tent, and if any man comes and inquires of you, and says, ‘Is there any man here?’ you shall say, ‘No.’ ”Judges 4:20Then Jael Heber’s wife took a tent peg, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly to him, and struck the pin into his temples, and it pierced through into the ground, for he was in a deep sleep; so he fainted and died.Judges 4:21Behold, as Barak) pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said to him, “Come, and I will show you the man whom you seek.” He came to her; and behold, Sisera lay dead, and the tent peg was in his temples.
Judges 5:24He asked for water. She gave him milk. She brought him butter in a lordly dish.Judges 5:25She put her hand to the tent peg, and her right hand to the workmen’s hammer. With the hammer she struck Sisera. She struck through his head. Yes, she pierced and struck through his temples.Judges 5:26At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay. At her feet he bowed, he fell. Where he bowed, there he fell down dead. Judges 5:27“Through the window she looked out, and cried: Sisera’s mother looked through the lattice. ‘Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why do the wheels of his chariots wait?’
1 Samuel 15:5Saul said to the Kenites), “Go, depart, go down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them; for you showed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt.” So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.1 Samuel 15:6Saul struck the Amalekites, from Havilah as you go to Shur, that is before Egypt.
1 Samuel 27:10David) saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring them to Gath, saying, “Lest they should tell about us, saying, ‘David did this, and this has been his way all the time he has lived in the country of the Philistines.’ ”
1 Samuel 30:29to those who were in Hormah, to those who were in Borashan, to those who were in Athach,
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