Canaanites amongst Us?
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Judges (CTC Tanakh) 1:
1 AND IT WAS AFTER THE DEATH OF JOSHUA, THAT THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL ASKED OF THE LORD, SAYING, "WHO SHALL GO UP FOR US FIRST AGAINST THE CANAANITES, TO FIGHT AGAINST THEM?"
Judah was to go up first and lead the way. So now, Judah is leading the way
in settling the land.
2 AND THE LORD SAID, JUDAH SHALL GO UP; BEHOLD I HAVE GIVEN THE LAND INTO HIS HAND.
3 AND JUDAH SAID TO SIMEON HIS BROTHER, "COME UP WITH ME INTO MY LOT, AND WE WILL FIGHT AGAINST THE CANAANITES, AND I WILL ALSO GO WITH YOU INTO YOUR LOT." AND SIMEON WENT WITH HIM.
Simeon joined forces with Judah. So too, nowadays a portion from Simeon is to found amongst the Jews. The Khazars were mainly from Simeon with some addition (in their leadership) of Manasseh. They were a relatively small group who had stayed behind in southern Russia when the rest of the Israelites moved westward.
Some of the Khazars (also known as Agathyrsi) also had previously gone westward where they crossed into Scotland and joined the Picts. Those who remained behind eventually converted to Judaism and became Jewish
See our book,
"Hebrew Warriors. The Khazars," by Yair Davidiy, 2019.
https://hebrewnations.com/publications/books/warriors.html
Other descendants of Simeon were to be found among the Lost Ten tribes including those of Wales and Ireland.
4 AND JUDAH WENT UP; AND THE LORD GAVE THE CANAANITES AND THE PERIZZITES INTO THEIR HANDS; AND THEY SMOTE THEM IN BEZEK, TEN THOUSAND MEN.
ADONIBEZEK" i.e. The Lord of Bezek. There was a Bezek in the north in the territory of Ephraim (Samuel-1 11:18) but some say this was a different place by the same name. Others say that it was the
same site and that Judah assisted Ephraim.
5 AND THEY FOUND ADONI- BEZEK IN BEZEK AND FOUGHT WITH HIM: AND THEY SMOTE THE CANAANITES AND THE PERIZZITES.
6 AND ADONI-BEZEK FLED, AND THEY PURSUED HIM: AND THEY CAUGHT HIM AND CUT OFF HIS THUMBS AND HIS GREAT TOES.
As he had done to others so was done unto him. This principle of "measure for measure" is repeated several times in the Bible.
7 AND ADONI-BEZEK SAID, "SEVENTY KINGS, HAVING THEIR THUMBS AND THEIR GREAT TOES CUT OFF, GATHERED (FOOD) UNDER MY TABLE; AS I HAVE DONE, SO HAS GOD PUNISHED ME." AND THEY BROUGHT HIM TO JERUSALEM, AND HE DIED THERE.
8 AND THE CHILDREN OF JUDAH FOUGHT AGAINST JERUSALEM AND CAPTURED IT, AND SMOTE IT WITH THE EDGE OF THE SWORD; AND SET THE CITY ON FIRE.
They destroyed Jerusalem which apparently was resettled by the heathen and
had to be conquered again at a later stage. There is also an opinion ("Daat Mikra") that there were two sections to Jerusalem a fortified one and an open spaced "suburban" section which is being referred to here.
9 AND AFTERWARD THE CHILDREN OF JUDAH WENT DOWN TO FIGHT AGAINST THE CANAANITES; THE INHABITANTS OF THE MOUNTAINS, OF THE SOUTH, AND OF THE LOWLAND.
10 AND JUDAH WENT TO THE CANAANITES THAT DWELT IN HEBRON - NOW THE NAME OF HEBRON FORMERLY HAD BEEN KIRJATH-ARBA - AND THEY SMOTE SHESHAI, AND AHIMAN, AND TALMAI.
In Modern Hebrew, "Kiryat Arba." The name has been given to a Jewish settlement (8,000 people) approximately a mile away from the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron.
"Kiryat Arba" means "City of the Four".
Kiryat Arba was important in the early history of "Brit-Am/Hebrew Awareness."
See:
"Yair Davidiy. A Brief Introduction to the Founder of Brit-Am and a History of Brit-Am."
https://hebrewnations.com/hebrewn/yairdavidiy.html
11 AND FROM THERE HE WENT TO THE INHABITANTS OF DEBIR-NOW THE NAME OF DEBIR FORMERLY HAD BEEN KIRJATH-SEPHER.
Modern Hebrew, "Kiryat Sepher". The name can be understood to mean "City of
the Book".
12 AND CALEB SAID, "HE THAT SHALL SMITE KIRJATH-SEPHER AND CAPTURE IT; TO HIM WILL I GIVE ACHSAH MY DAUGHTER FOR A WIFE."
13 AND OTHNIEL THE SON OF KENAZ, CALEB'S YOUNGER BROTHER, CAPTURED IT; AND HE GAVE HIM ACHSAH HIS DAUGHTER FOR A WIFE.
OTHNIE was actually the son of Yephuneh from the family of Kenaz.
14 AND IT WAS WHEN SHE CAME TO HIM, THAT SHE PERSUADED HIM TO ASK OF HER FATHER THE FIELD, AND SHE LEANED OFF THE DONKEY. AND CALEB SAID TO HER, "WHAT IS (WANTING) TO YOU?"
15 AND SHE SAID TO HIM, "GIVE ME A BLESSING, FOR YOU HAVE GIVEN ME DRY LAND; AND YOU SHOULD GIVE ME SPRINGS OF WATER." AND CALEB GAVE HER THE UPPER SPRINGS AND THE LOWER SPRINGS.
16 AND THE CHILDREN OF KENI, THE FATHER-IN-LAW OF MOSES, WENT UP FROM THE CITY OF DATE PALMS, WITH THE CHILDREN OF JUDAH INTO THE WILDERNESS OF JUDAH, WHICH IS SOUTH OF ARAD; AND HE WENT AND DWELT WITH THE PEOPLE.
The Kenites were descendants of Jethro. According to tradition part of the Kenites merged with the Israelites. The Commentator Rashi (Numbers 24:21) said that the Kenites were exiled with the Lost Ten Tribes and will return with them. The Druse revere Jethro and may be
descended from them. So too, research by Brit-Am supporter "Tubalcain" found evidence of the Kenites having settled in northern Ireland. He quotes from "Phoenicians in Ireland," 1833, by Joaquin Lorenzo Villanueva.
https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL71199A/Joaqu%C3%ADn_Lorenzo_Villanueva
See:
Jethro in Ireland?
New Findings help Confirm Brit-Am Researches
https://hebrewnations.com/articles/tribes/ireland-and-ulster/jethro.html
17 AND JUDAH WENT WITH SIMEON HIS BROTHER, AND THEY SMOTE THE CANAANITES THAT INHABITED SAFED; AND THEY DESTROYED IT, AND CALLED THE NAME OF THE CITY, CHORMAH.
Gaza, Askelon (Ashkelon), and Ekron later became major cities of the Philistines. Gaza should belong to Judah.
18 AND JUDAH CAPTURED GAZA WITH ITS TERRITORY, AND ASHKELON WITH ITS TERRITORY, AND EKRON WITH ITS TERRITORY.
19 AND THE LORD WAS WITH JUDAH, AND THEY DROVE OUT THE INHABITANTS OF THE MOUNTAINS; BUT THEY COULD NOT DRIVE OUT THE INHABITANTS OF THE VALLEY, FOR THEY HAD IRON CHARIOTS.
Some say that all these events took place in the "Bronze" Age and that iron was not widely in use.
Egyptian illustration however show tools colored blue, thought to mean iron or steel, and remains of an iron mine have been found in the region of el-Taga, west of the Red Sea.
20 AND THEY GAVE HEBRON TO CALEB, AS MOSES HAD SPOKEN; AND HE DROVE OUT FROM THERE THE THREE SONS OF THE GIANT.
21 AND THE CHILDREN OF BENJAMIN DID NOT DRIVE OUT THE JEBUSITES THAT INHABITED JERUSALEM; AND THE JEBUSITES DWELT WITH THE CHILDREN OF BENJAMIN IN JERUSALEM UNTIL THIS DAY.
22 AND THE HOUSE OF JOSEPH, THEY ALSO WENT UP TO BETH-EL; AND THE LORD WAS WITH THEM.
In Modern Hebrew the name is pronounced as Bet-el. It means "The House of God".
23 AND THE HOUSE OF JOSEPH CAUSED TO SPY BETH-EL. NOW THE NAME OF THE CITY FORMERLY WAS LUZ.
24 AND THE WATCHERS SAW A MAN LEAVE THE CITY. AND THEY SAID TO HIM, "SHOW US NOW THE ENTRANCE TO THE CITY AND WE WILL DEAL KINDLY WITH YOU."
25 AND HE SHOWED THEM THE ENTRANCE OF THE CITY, AND THEY STRUCK THE CITY WITH THE EDGE OF THE SWORD; BUT THE MAN AND HIS ENTIRE FAMILY THEY LET GO.
26 AND THE MAN WENT TO THE LAND OF THE HITTITES, AND BUILT A CITY, AND CALLED ITS NAME LUZ; THIS IS ITS NAME UNTIL THIS DAY.
27 AND MENASSEH DID NOT DRIVE OUT THE INHABITANTS OF BETH-SHEAN AND ITS TOWNS, TAANACH AND ITS TOWNS, THE INHABITANTS OF DOR AND ITS TOWNS, THE INHABITANTS OF YIBLEAM AND ITS TOWNS, THE INHABITANTS OF MEGIDDO AND ITS TOWNS; AND THE CANAANITES WANTED TO REMAIN IN THIS LAND.
28 AND IT WAS WHEN ISRAEL BECAME STRONG, THAT THEY PUT THE CANAANITES TO TRIBUTE, BUT THEY DID NOT DRIVE THEM OUT.
The Israelites were to intermix with the Canaanites and learn their ways.
That was the reason the Ten Tribes were exiled (2-Kings 17). Even in their places of exile we still find Canaanite customs amongst the Celtic
Druids. The Anglo-Saxons in Europe were recorded as worshipping "Ashtoreth" a Canaanite goddess. We may (or may not) all have some
Canaanite blood in addition to our Israelite ancestry. See below.
29 AND EPHRAIM DID NOT DRIVE OUT THE CANAANITES THAT DWELT IN GEZER; AND THE CANAANITES DWELT AMONG THEM IN GEZER.
30 ZEBULUN DID NOT DRIVE OUT THE INHABITANTS OF KITRON, NOR THE INHABITANTS OF NAHALOL; AND THE CANAANITES DWELT AMONG THEM AND BECAME TRIBUTARY.
31 ASHER DID NOT DRIVE OUT THE INHABITANTS OF AKKO, NOR THE INHABITANTS OF ZIDON, NOR OF ACHLAB, NOR OF ACHZIB, NOR OF CHELBAH, NOR OF APHIK, NOR OF RECHOB.
32 AND THE ASHERITES DWELT AMONG THE CANAANITES, THE INHABITANTS OF THE LAND; FOR THEY DID NOT DRIVE THEM OUT.
The Asherites lived among the Canaanites. They were a minority in their own land! We find descendants of Asher among the Irish and Scandinavians.
Maybe that is why we find Israelite nations like Ireland to be hostile to the State of Israel. They may have Canaanites among them! See below.
33 NAPHTALI DID NOT DRIVE OUT THE INHABITANTS OF BETH-SHEMESH, NOR THE INHABITANTS OF BETH-ANATH; AND HE DWELT AMONG THE CANAANITES, THE INHABITANTS OF THE LAND. AND THE INHABITANTS OF BETH-SHEMESH AND OF BETH-ANATH BECAME TRIBUTARY TO THEM.
Naphtali also appears to have been a minority among the Canaanites.
Is this why both Ireland now Norway have turned against |Israel and given themselves over on behalf of the Palestinians. The Palestinians themselves may also be partial descendants of the ancient Philistines and Canaanites.
We see from the above that Judah, Ephraim, Menasseh, Benjamin, and Zebulon all left minority groups of Canaanites in their lands.
In the territories of Asher and Naphtali Israelites may have been in the minority.
This may explain anti-Jewish pro_Palestinian sentiments among some of their descendants.
Hasidic Rabbinical commentators (e.g. "Bais Yisroel") sometimes opine that descendants of foreigner non-Israelites elements may comprise a portion of the ancestry of everyone of us.
We do not really know. We need to be aware of this and guard against it.
34 AND THE AMORITES FORCED THE CHILDREN OF DAN TO THE MOUNTAIN; FOR THEY WOULD NOT LET THEM COME DOWN TO THE VALLEY.
35 AND THE AMORITES WANTED TO REMAIN ON MOUNT CHERES, IN AYALON, AND IN SHAALBIM; BUT THE HAND OF THE HOUSE OF JOSEPH PREVAILED AND THEY BECAME TRIBUTARY.
36 AND THE BORDER OF THE AMORITES WAS FROM MAALEH-ACCRABBIM, FROM THE ROCK UPWARD.