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I In the Targum, Caleb's kindred the Kenites are designated as
Salmaeans; the name also occurs in Canticles (i. 5, the tents of
Kedar, the curtains of Salmah), and also as the name of a
Nabataean tribe in Pliny. Among the families of the Nethinim
enumerated in Nehemiah vii. 46-60 the B'ne Salmah also occur,
along with several otber names which enable us distinctly to
recognise (Ezekiel xliv.) the non-Israelite and foreign origin
of these temple slaves; see, for example, vers. 48, 52, 55, 57.
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But if anything at all is certain, it is this, that in ancient times
the Calebites lived in the south and not in the north of Judah, and
in particular that David by his nativity belonged not to them but
rather to the older portion of Judah which gravitated towards
Israel properly so called, and stood in most intimate relations
with Benjamin. Of the first three members of the genealogy,
Nahshon and Amminadab occur as princes of Judah in the Priestly
Code, and are fitly regarded as the ancestors of those who come
after them; Ram is the first-born of Hezron's first-born (ver.
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