The Kenites
13 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
15 sections
- Connected with the Midianites
- David: Pretended That he Invaded
- David: Sent Part of the Spoil of War To
- Dwelt in Strongholds
- had Many Cities
- Moses: Intermarried With
- Moses: Invited, to Accompany Israel
- Not Destroyed with the Amalekites
- Originally a People of Canaan
- Part of, Dwelt with Israel
- Part of, Dwelt with the Amalekites
- Ruin of, Predicted
- Showed Kindness to Israel in the Desert
- Sisera Slain by Jael One of
- The Rechabites Descended From
Connected with the Midianites
- Numbers 10:29 Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of Moses’ father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, “We are setting out for the place of which the LORD said: ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well, for the LORD has promised …
- Judges 4:11 Now Heber the Kenite had moved away from the Kenites, the descendants of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent by the great tree of Zaanannim, which was near Kedesh.
David: Pretended That he Invaded
- 1 Samuel 27:10 who would ask him, “What have you raided today?” And David would reply, “The Negev of Judah,” or “The Negev of Jerahmeel,” or “The Negev of the Kenites.”
David: Sent Part of the Spoil of War To
- 1 Samuel 30:29 to those in Racal and in the cities of the Jerahmeelites and Kenites;
Dwelt in Strongholds
- Numbers 24:21 Next he saw the Kenites and lifted up an oracle, saying: “Your dwelling place is secure, and your nest is set in a cliff.
had Many Cities
- 1 Samuel 30:29 to those in Racal and in the cities of the Jerahmeelites and Kenites;
Moses: Intermarried With
- Exodus 2:21 Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.
- Judges 1:16 Now the descendants of Moses’ father-in-law, the Kenite, went up with the men of Judah from the City of Palms to the Wilderness of Judah in the Negev near Arad. They went to live among the people.
Moses: Invited, to Accompany Israel
- Numbers 10:29–32 Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of Moses’ father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, “We are setting out for the place of which the LORD said: ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well, for the LORD has promised …
Not Destroyed with the Amalekites
- 1 Samuel 15:6 And he warned the Kenites, “Since you showed kindness to all the Israelites when they came up out of Egypt, go on and get away from the Amalekites. Otherwise I will sweep you away with them.” So the Kenites moved away from the Amalekites.
Originally a People of Canaan
- Genesis 15:19 the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,
Part of, Dwelt with Israel
- Judges 1:16 Now the descendants of Moses’ father-in-law, the Kenite, went up with the men of Judah from the City of Palms to the Wilderness of Judah in the Negev near Arad. They went to live among the people.
- Judges 4:11 Now Heber the Kenite had moved away from the Kenites, the descendants of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent by the great tree of Zaanannim, which was near Kedesh.
Part of, Dwelt with the Amalekites
- 1 Samuel 15:6 And he warned the Kenites, “Since you showed kindness to all the Israelites when they came up out of Egypt, go on and get away from the Amalekites. Otherwise I will sweep you away with them.” So the Kenites moved away from the Amalekites.
Ruin of, Predicted
- Numbers 24:21–22 Next he saw the Kenites and lifted up an oracle, saying: “Your dwelling place is secure, and your nest is set in a cliff. …
Showed Kindness to Israel in the Desert
- Exodus 18:1–27 Now Moses’ father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian, heard about all that God had done for Moses and His people Israel, and how the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt. …
Sisera Slain by Jael One of
- Judges 4:22 When Barak arrived in pursuit of Sisera, Jael went out to greet him and said to him, “Come, and I will show you the man you are seeking.” So he went in with her, and there lay Sisera dead, with a tent peg through his temple.
- Judges 5:24 Most blessed among women is Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, most blessed of tent-dwelling women.
The Rechabites Descended From
- 1 Chronicles 2:55 and the clans of the scribes who lived at Jabez— the Tirathites, Shimeathites, and Sucathites. These are the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.
Related topics
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.