팔레스타인 지역에 자리잡았던 유목 민족이다.
Cain 의 후손으로 여겨지는 듯 하다.
21 He looked at the Kenite, and took up his parable, and said, “Your dwelling place is strong. Your nest is set in the rock.
22 Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted, until Asshur carries you away captive.”
The 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.
Moses 의 장인
Jethro 가 겐 사람이었으며, 이들의 후손은 계속해서 이스라엘 사람들과 어울려 지냈다.
The children of the Kenite, Moses ’ brother-in-law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which is in the south of Arad; and they went and lived with the people.
사사 시대때
Hazor (Canaanite City) 과의 전쟁에서 도움을 준 것을 미뤄보면, 이스라엘 민족과 다른 가나안 민족들과 양쪽과 친분이 있었던 것으로 보인다.
Now Heber the Kenite had separated himself from the Kenites , even from the children of Hobab, Moses ’ brother-in-law, and had pitched his tent as far as the oak in Zaanannim, which is by Kedesh.
17 However Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite; for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.
18 Jael 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.
19 He 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.
20 He 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.’ ”
21 Then 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.
24 “Jael shall be blessed above women, the wife of Heber the Kenite; blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
25 He asked for water. She gave him milk. She brought him butter in a lordly dish.
26 She 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.
27 At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay. At her feet he bowed, he fell. Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
사울왕과 다윗 시대에도 계속 언급이 되었다.
5 Saul came to the city of Amalek , and set an ambush in the valley.
6 Saul 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.
Achish said, “Against whom have you made a raid today?” David said, “Against the South of Judah , against the South of the Jerahmeelites, and against the South of the Kenites .”
to those who were in Racal, to those who were in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, to those who were in the cities of the Kenites ,
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