Yet Kain will be destroyed when Asshur takes you captive.
From that land he went forth to Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir and Calah,
To Shem also, Japheth’s oldest brother and the ancestor of all the children of Eber, children were born.
The descendants of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud and Aram.
the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,
they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of ancestral houses and said to them, “Let us build with you, for we seek your God just as you do, and we have sacrificed to him since the days of Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, who brought us here.”
Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia and the inhabitants of Tyre.
Take with you words, and return to the Lord; Say to him, “Forgive all iniquity, and take what is good. Let us offer the fruit of our lips.
Upon seeing [the Ishmaelites?] he recited his poem: Alas, who shall survive of Ishmael,