nevertheless the Kenite will be wasted. How long until Ashur carries you away captive?”
Assyria will not save us, we will not ride on horses. We will no longer say, ‘Our God,’ to the work of our hands. In You the orphan finds mercy.”
Asshur also has joined them; they have helped the descendants of Lot. Selah
they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chiefs of the fathers’ households, and said to them, “Let us build with you, for, like you, we seek your God and have been sacrificing to Him since the days of Esarhaddon king of Assyria, who brought us here.”
The sons of Shem were Elam, Ashur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.
From that land he went to Assyria and built Nineveh, the city Rehoboth Ir, and Calah,
To Shem, who was the father of all the sons of Eber, whose older brother was Japheth, were sons born also.
the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,
He took up his proverb and said: “Alas, who will live when God does this?