Kenites

Deborah also went up with him.

Now Heber the Kenite had left the other Kenites, the descendants of Hobab, Moses' brother-in-law, and pitched his tent by the great tree in Zananim near Kadesh.

When they told Sisera that Barak, son of Abinoim, had gone up to Mount Tabor, Sisera summoned from Harasheth Hagoyim to the Kishon River all his men and his 900 chariots fitted with iron.

Then Deborah said to Barak, Go, this is the day the Lord has given Sisera into your hands.

Barak pursued the chariots and army as far as Harasheth Hagoyim, and all Sisera's troops fell by the sword.

Not a man was left.

Sisera, meanwhile, fled on foot to the tent of Jel, the wife of Heber the Kenite, because there was an alliance between Jabin, king of Hazor, and the family of Hiba the Kenite.

Jel went out to meet Sarah and said to him, Come, my lord, come right in.

so you can see that people probably contains different theological voices produced across centuries and to your question of efficacy this is seemingly a subtler question there are stories of other religions apparent appearing capable of actually doing things with pharaoh's magicians being probably the most recognizable famous example exactly their their rods also turn into serpents it's just that aaron's rod swallows theirs So it seems like their power was, again, I'm like pulling from what I'm seeing from a little searching here, like real, but subordinate.

And a classic example here being that there's a story of Mount Carmel where Elijah challenges the prophets of Baal and Asherah, these local deities, Kenite deities.

And Elijah's practice is effective in rendering a divine sign and the others, at least, you know, it doesn't quite say what happens with the prophetesses of, prophets of Asherah.

And interestingly, Asherah has so many feminine, in his art and archeology, the consort of Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh.

They shall share alike." And he made it a statute and a rule for Israel from that way forward, from that day forward to this day.

When David came to Ziklag, he sent part of the spoil to his friends, the elders of Judah, saying, "Here is a present you, for you from the spoil of the enemies of the Lord." It was for those in Bethel, in Ramoth of the Negeb, in Jattir, in Aroer, in Siphmoth, in Eshtemoa, in Ras, Ra- Rakal, in the cities of the Jera- Jerahmeelites, in the city of the Kenites, in Hormah, in Be Borashan, in Athach, in Hebron, for all the places where David and his men had roamed.

Amen.

Well, friends, we've arrived here at the end of 1 Samuel.

Not a man was left.

However, Sisera had fled away on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Hebor the Kenite.

For there was peace between Jabin king of Hazor and the house of Hebor the Kenite.

And Jael went out to meet Sisera and said to him, Turn aside, my lord, turn aside to me, do not fear.

And when he had turned aside with her into the tent, she covered him with a blanket.

Then the horse's hooves pounded, the galloping, galloping of his steeds.

Curse Meroz, said the angel of the Lord, curse its inhabitants bitterly, because they did not come to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty.

Most blessed among women is Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite.

Verses 19 to 21 of this chapter indicate there's 10 pagan nations in it.

The Kenite, the Kenizzite, the Katonite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Girgashite, the Jebusite, the Mosquitobite.

You know, they're all there.

And then Abram asks an honest question in verse 8.

When David came to Ziklag, he sent part of the spoil to his friends, the elders of Judah, saying, Here is a present for you from the spoil of the enemies of the Lord.

It was for those in Bethel, in Ramoth of the Negeb, in Jatir, in Arorah, in Sifmoth, in Eshtimoah, in Rakhal, in the cities of the Jeremelites, in the cities of the Kenites, in Hormah, in Borashan, in Athak, in Hebron, for all the places where David and his men had roamed.

A reading from 1 Corinthians For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea and all ate the same spiritual food and all drank the same spiritual drink.

for they drank from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.

The descendants of Salma were the people of Bethlehem, the Netophathites, Atroth, Beth-Joab, the other half of the Manahethites, the Zorites, and the families of the scribes living in Jabez, the Tirithites, Shimeathites, and Sukathites.

All these were Kenites who descended from Hamath, the father of the family of Rechab.

Wow.

Right? I'm excited to get to chapter three because it says the descendants of David, but wow.