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 and Hammath, Rakkath and Chinnereth,
From the tribe of Naphtali, they gave Kedesh in Galilee, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasture lands and Hammoth-dor with its pasture lands and Kartan with its pasture lands; three cities.
The families of scribes who lived at Jabez were the Tirathites, the Shimeathites and the Sucathites. Those are the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.
and from the tribe of Naphtali: Kedesh in Galilee with its pasture lands, Hammon with its pasture lands and Kiriathaim with its pasture lands.
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