The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,
The Kenites. Their territory lay in the south and west of Canaan (Numbers 24:21; Judges 1:16; Judges 4:11; Judges 4:17; Judges 5:24; 1 Samuel 30:29). They were mixed up with the Amalekites (1 Samuel 15:3), and hence, they forfeited their country, which fell into the possession of Israel, though they continued on terms of amicable discussion with the nation.
The Kenizzites. They are mentioned only in this place, and nothing certain can be said respecting them.
The Kadmonites - "the children of the East" (cf. Judges 6:3; Job 1:3), a geographical term of indefinite signification, applied to the extensive pastoral places, or wilderness, that lay contiguous to the Syrian and Arabian deserts, and occupied by nomadic people (Genesis 25:6). This is the common opinion respecting the Kadmonites. But a different view has been taken recently by a well-informed traveler, who says the Kadmonites are supposed to have resided about the head-waters of the Jordan, under Hermon. This name is still preserved among the Nusairiyeh, north of Tripoli, and they have a tradition that their ancestors were expelled from Palestine by Joshua. It is curious also that a fragment of this strange people still cling to their original home at 'Ain-Fit, Zaora, and Ghujar, near the foot of Hermon. I have repeatedly traveled among them in their own mountains, and many things in their physiognomy and manners gave me the idea that they were a remnant of the most ancient inhabitants of this country ('Land and Book').