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Kenites

A person first named at Genesis 15:19.

Where in scripture

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the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,

Genesis 15:19

He looked at the Kenite, and took up his parable, and said, “Your dwelling place is strong. Your nest is set in the rock.

Numbers 24:21

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.

Judges 1:16

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.

Judges 4:11

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.

Judges 4:17

“Jael shall be blessed above women, the wife of Heber the Kenite; blessed shall she be above women in the tent.

Judges 5:24

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.

1 Samuel 15:6

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.”

1 Samuel 27:10

Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, a public-domain translation.

Genesis 15:19Numbers 24:21Judges 1:16Judges 4:11Judges 4:17Judges 5:241 Samuel 15:61 Samuel 27:101 Samuel 30:291 Chronicles 2:55