Genesis 15:19 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The Kenites are supposed the same with the Midianites, by comparing Exodus 3:1, with Judges 1:16. See also Numbers 24:21 1 Samuel 15:6. The Kenizzites, thought to be the Idumeans, who sprung from Kenaz of Esau's race. But this seems not to agree with Deuteronomy 2:5, where God expressly saith to the Israelites concerning the Idumeans, I will give you none of their lands, & c. The Kadmonites, i.e. the eastern people, as the word signifies, elsewhere called the Hivites, Joshua 9:1, who lived near the Mount Hermon, Joshua 11:3, which was in the east part of Canaan. See Psalms 89:12.