1. 'Father of the house of Rechab' (1Ch 2:55). 2. One of the 'fenced' cities of Naphtali (Jos 19:35), probably the same as Hammon of 1Ch 6:76 and Hammoth-dor of Jos 21:32. It is doubtless the Hamata of the Talmud, the Emmaus or Ammathus of Josephus (Ant. XVIII. ii. 3), and the modern Hamm
The fortified cities were Ziddim, Zer, Hammath, Rakkath, Chinnereth,
From the tribe of Naphtali [they gave]: Kedesh in Galilee, the city of refuge for the one who commits manslaughter, with its pasturelands, Hammoth-dor with its pasturelands, and Kartan with its pasturelands-three cities.
and the families of scribes who lived in Jabez-the Tirathites, Shimeathites, and Sucathites. These are the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of Rechab's family.
From the tribe of Naphtali [they received] Kedesh in Galilee and its pasturelands, Hammon and its pasturelands, and Kiriathaim and its pasturelands.
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