The Amorite II

  

ar-tif-i-cer

(ar-tifi-sr)n. 1. A skilled worker; a craftsperson. 2. One that contrives, devises, or constructs something: 

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in-struc-tor

(in-struktr)n. Abbr. instr. 1. One who instructs; a teacher. 2. A college or university teacher who ranks below an assistant professor.--in-struc'tor-ship' n.

 

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Therefore

shall a man

leave

his father

and his mother,

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And Lamech

took unto him

two wives:

 

the name

of the

one was Adah,

 

and the name

of the

other

Zillah.

      

And Zillah,

she also

bare

Tubalcain,

*

I

will make him

an

help meet

for him.

*

an

instructor

of

every artificer

in

brass

and iron:

 

and the sister

of

Tubalcain was Naamah.

*

And Noah went forth,

and his sons,

 

and his wife,

*

 

and shall cleave unto

his wife:

 

and they shall be

one flesh.

*

 

And they were both naked,

the man and his wife,

and were not as ham ed.

*

Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them. And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

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The Hittites (/ˈhɪtaɪts/) were an Anatolian people who played an important role in establishing an empire centered on Hattusa in north-central Anatolia around 1680-1650 BCE.[2] This empire reached its height during the mid-14th century BC under Šuppiluliuma I, when it encompassed an area that included most of Anatolia as well as parts of the northern Levant and Upper Mesopotamia.

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And God blessed the seventh day,

and sanctified

it:

because

that

in it

he

had rested

from all

his

work which

 

God created

 

and made.

 

These are

the

generations

of the

heavens

 

and of the earth when

they

were created,

 

in the day that the

Lord God

 

made

 

the earth

 

and the heavens,

*

 

And the Lord said unto

him,

 

Therefore whosoever

slayeth Cain,

 

vengeance

shall be taken on

him

sevenfold.

 

And the Lord set a mark

 

upon Cain,

 

lest any

finding

him

should kill

him.

 

*

And Reuben heard

it,

 

and he delivered him out

of

their hands;

 

and said,

Let us

not kill him.

*

And he said,

When ye do the office

of

a midwife

to the

Hebrew women,

and see them upon the stools;

if it be a son,

then

ye

shall

kill him:

 

*

 

and Noah only remained alive,

and they that were with him

in the

ark.

*

These are the generations

of

Noah:

 

Noah was a just man

and perfect

in his

generations,

and Noah walked with God.

 

*

And the earth brought forth grass,

and herb yielding seed

after

his

kind,

and the tree yielding

fruit,

whose seed

was

in itself,

after his kind:

and God saw

that it was good.

 

*

And the Lord God

said unto Jabal

the workman,

 

What is this

that

thou hast

done?

 

And the woman

said,

**

 

The Canaan beguiled me,

and

(Here denotes there was a union by marriage)

I

did eat.

And the Lord God

said

unto the Canaan,

 

Because

thou hast done this,

thou art cursed above all cattle,

 

and above every beast of the field;

upon thy belly shalt thou go,

 

and dust shalt thou eat all the days

of

thy life:

*

and knew what

his

younger

son

had done

unto

him.

 

And he

said,

Cursed

be

Canaan;

 

a servant

of

servants

*

 

And he will

be a

wild man;

 

his

hand

will

be

against

every man,

 

and every

man's hand

against him;

and he shall dwell

in the

presence

of

all his brethren.

*

 

shall

he be

unto

 

his brethren.

 

And he said,

Blessed be

the

Lord God

of

*

And Adam knew Eve

his wife;

and she conceived,

and bare Cain,

and said,

I

have gotten a man

from the

Lord.

*

 

Shem;

 

and Canaan shall

be

his

servant.

 

*

and the earth.

*

 

God

shall enlarge Japheth,

and

he

shall dwell

in

 

the tents

of

Shem;

 

 

and

Canaan shall

be his servant.

 

and

he

shall dwell

in the

tents of Shem;

 

and Canaan shall

be

his

servant.

*

And Noah lived

 

after the flood

 

three hundred

and fifty years.

*

If Cain shall be avenged

sevenfold,

truly Lamech

seventy

and sevenfold.

*

And all the

days

of

Noah

were nine hundred

and fifty years:

 

and he died.

 

Now these

are

the

generations

of the

sons

of

 Noah, Shem,

 

Ham,

and Japheth:

 

and unto them

were sons born

after the

flood.

The sons

of

Japheth;

 

Gomer,

and Magog,

and Madai,

and Javan,

and Tubal,

and Meshech,

and Tiras.

      

And the sons

of

Gomer;

Ashkenaz,

and Riphath,

and Togarmah.

 

And the sons

of

Javan;

 

Elishah,

and Tarshish,

Kittim,

 

and Dodanim.

 

By these

were the isles

of the

Gentiles divided

in

their lands;

 

every one

after

his tongue,

 

after their families,

in

their nations.

 

And the sons

of

Ham;

Cush,

 

and Mizraim,

and Phut,

 

and Canaan.

      

And the sons

of

Cush;

 

Seba,

and Havilah,

and Sabtah,

and Raamah,

and Sabtechah:

 

and the sons

of

Raamah;

 

Sheba,

and Dedan.

*

 

 

The children

of

Shem;

 

Elam,

and Asshur,

 and Arphaxad,

 

and Lud,

and Aram.

      

And the children

of Aram;

 

Uz,

 

and Hul,

and Gether,

and Mash.

And Arphaxad begat Salah;

and Salah begat Eber.

 

*

And Noah lived

after

the flood

three hundred

and fifty years.

      

And all the days

of

Noah were nine hundred

and fifty years:

 

and he died.

 

Now

these are the generations

of the

sons of Noah,

Shem,

Ham, and Japheth:

 

and unto them were sons born

 

after

the

flood.

 

The sons

of

Japheth;

Gomer,

and

Magog,

and Madai,

and Javan,

and Tubal,

and Meshech,

and Tiras.

      

And the sons

of

Gomer;

Ashkenaz,

and Riphath,

and Togarmah.

      

And the sons

of

Javan;

 

Elishah,

and Tarshish,

Kittim,

 

and Dodanim.

By these

were the isles

of the

Gentiles divided

in

their lands;

 every one after

his tongue,

 

after

their families,

 

in

their nations.

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The children

of

Shem;

 

Elam,

and Asshur,

 and Arphaxad,

 

and Lud,

and Aram.

      

And the children

of Aram;

 

Uz,

 

*

And Noah

 

awoke

from

his wine,

*

There

 

was

a man

in

 

the

land

of

Uz,

whose name was

Job;

 

and that man

was

perfect

 

and upright,

 

and one

 

 

that

feared

God,

*

But the midwives feared God,

and did not

as the

king of Egypt

commanded them,

*

 

and eschewed evil.

 

*

And there were born unto

*

 

And Lamech took unto

him

two wives:

 

*

 

And there were born

unto him

 

seven sons

and

 

three daughters.

 

His

substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very

 great household;

 

so

that this man

was the

 greatest

of

all the

men

of

the east.

*

 

 

After their expulsion from Mesopotamia, the Amorites of Syria came under the domination of first the Hittites and, from the 14th century BC, the Middle Assyrian Empire (1365–1050). They appear to have been displaced or absorbed by a new wave of semi-nomadic West Semitic-speaking peoples, known collectively as the Ahlamu during the Late Bronze Age collapse. The Arameans rose to be the prominent group amongst the Ahlamu, and from c. 1200 BC on, the Amorites disappeared from the pages of history. From then on, the region that they had inhabited became known as Aram ("Aramea") and Eber-Nari.

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And Cush begat Nimrod:

he

began to be

a

mighty one

in

the earth.

 

He

was a mighty hunter before the Lord:

 

wherefore

it is

said,

Even as Nimrod

the

mighty hunter

 

before the Lord.

 

And

the

beginning

 

of

his

kingdom was Babel,

 

and Erech,

and Accad,

and Calneh,

in the

land of Shinar.

 

**

Unto Shem also,

the father

of all the

children of Eber,

the brother of Japheth the elder,

 

even to him were children born.

 

The children

of

Shem;

Elam,

and Asshur,

 

*

 

Out of that land

went forth

Asshur,

**

and builded Nineveh,

and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,

And Resen

between

Nineveh and Calah:

the same is a great city.

*

A well in Gerar dug by Isaac (Genesis 26:22), supposed to be in Wady er-Ruheibeh, about 20 miles south of Beersheba."[3] Isaac gave it the name Rehoboth, which means "open spaces".[4] Isaac's servants had dug two wells before Rehoboth and the herdsmen of Gerar quarrelled with Isaac's herdsmen. So when they dug the third well and there were no quarrels Isaac named it Rehoboth saying "Now the Lord has given us room and we will flourish in the land."

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And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom.

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Now these are the generations of Esau, who is Edom.

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An ancient city from which came Saul, an Edomite king (Genesis 36:37; 1 Chronicles 1:48), "Rehoboth by the river". Since "the River" in the Bible generally is used about Euphrates, scholars[who?] have suggested either of two sites near the junction of the Khabur River and the Euphrates. However, this would be a place far outside the Edomite territory. The river mentioned could be a river in the land of Edom, such as Wadi Zered (also known as Wadi al-Hasa). Rehoboth could possibly be identical with a site southeast of the Dead Sea.

 

Rehoboth-Ir was a biblical town named in Genesis 10:11 as among those founded by Nimrod.[5] Its exact geographic location is unknown. Rehoboth-Ir may possibly have been in the vicinity of the town of Nineveh. However, its name is identical to the Hebrew phrase "rehovot ir", meaning "streets of the town" or "public square of the town", which may refer to Nineveh itself, rather than the name of a distinct town.

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and Arphaxad,

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Arphaxad begat Salah;

and Salah begat

Eber.

And unto

Eber

were born two sons:

 

the name

of

one was Peleg;

for

in his days

was the

earth divided;

and his brother's name

was

Joktan.

*

and Lud,

and Aram.

 

And Mizraim begat Ludim,

and Anamim,

and Lehabim,

and Naphtuhim,

     

And Pathrusim,

and Casluhim,

(out of whom came Philistim,)

and Caphtorim.

     

And Canaan

begat Sidon his

 firstborn,

and Heth,

      And the Jebusite,

and the Amorite,

 and the Girgasite,

     

And the Hivite,

 

and the Arkite,

and the Sinite,

     

And the Arvadite,

and the Zemarite,

and the Hamathite:

and afterward were

the families

of the

Canaanites

spread abroad.

     

And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest,

unto Sodom, and Gomorrah,

and Admah,

and Zeboim,

even unto Lasha.

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the kingdoms of Sodom and Gomorrah were allied with the cities of Admah, Zeboim, and Bela. These five cities, also known as the "cities of the plain" (from Genesis in the King James Version), were situated on the Jordan River plain in the southern region of the land of Canaan. The plain was compared to the garden of Eden[Gen.13:10] as being well-watered and green, suitable for grazing livestock.

Divine judgment was passed upon them and four of them were consumed by fire and brimstone. Neighboring Zoar (Bela) was the only city to be spared. In Abrahamic religions, Sodom and Gomorrah have become synonymous with impenitent sin, and their fall with a proverbial manifestation of divine retribution.[5][6][Jude 1:7] The Bible mentions that the cities were destroyed for their sins, an attempt at rape, haughtiness and egoism.

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These are

the

sons of Ham,

after their families,

after their tongues,

in their countries,

and in

their nations.

      

      

And the whole earth

was of

one language,

and of one speech.

And Cush

begat Nimrod:

 

he

began to be

a

mighty one

in the

earth.

 

wherefore

it is

said,

Even as Nimrod

the

mighty

hunter before the Lord.

 

 

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