And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye shewed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.
And Saul said unto the Kenites Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites. Their encampment about 'Arad was in a mountainous country, and on an elevated part of that country (Robinson's 'Biblical Researches,' 2:, pp. 202, 467-468, 618; Stanley, 'Sinai and Palestine,' pp. 160-161, 289, 294; 'Negeb,' pp. 10,
76). "Kenites" (see the note at Judges 1:16). In consequence, probably, of the unsettled state of Judah, they seem to have returned to their old desert tracts, and occupied the region around 'Arad (Judges 1:16). Though now intermingled with the Amalekites, they were not implicated in the offenses of that wicked race; but for the sake of their ancestors, between whom and those of Israel there had been a league of amity, a timely warning was afforded them to remove from the scene of danger.