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
And, the fortified cities, are, - Ziddim, Zer, and Hammath, Rakkath and Chinnereth,
And, out of the tribe of Naphtali, a city of refuge for the manslayer - even Kedesh in Galilee, with her pasture land, and Hammoth-dor, with her pasture land, and Kartan, with her pasture land, - three cities.
and the families of scribes who dwelt at Jabez, the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, the Sucathites. The same, are the Kenites who came in from Hammath, father of the house of Rechab.
And, out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee, with her pasture lands, and Hammon, with her pasture lands, - and Kiryathaim, with her pasture lands.