And the children of the Kenite, Moses' father in law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which lieth in the south of Arad; and they went and dwelt among the people. The children of the Kenite, Moses' father-in-law, х uwbneey (H1121) Qeeyniy (H7017)] - and the children of a Kenite; namely, Moses' father-in-law: called the or a Kenite, as probably descended from the people of that name (Numbers 24:21-22). If he might not himself. his posterity did, accept the invitation of Moses (Numbers 16:32) to accompany the Israelites to Canaan. Their first encampment was in "the city of palm trees" - not Jericho, of course, which was utterly destroyed, but a place in the surrounding district, perhaps En-gedi, in early times called Hazezon-tamar (Genesis 14:7), from the palm grove which sheltered it (Lightfoot, 2:, 7). Thence they removed, from some unknown cause, and, associating themselves with Judah, joined in an expedition against Arad, in the southern part of Canaan (Numbers 21:1). On the conquest of that district some of the pastoral Kenites pitched their tents there, while others migrated to the north (Judges 4:17). It may be added, that some curious information respecting the Kenites was communicated to the meeting of the British Association at Cambridge (1862), by George Williams, in an account of a tribe of Arabs inhabiting a portion of the Arabian desert east of the Ghor - i:e., a part of the ancient land of Midian. These people are described as being much superior to the ordinary Bedonins, and in several respects very different from them. They profess the Israelite religion, and declare themselves to be Ishamaelites, descended from the Rechabites, "the children of the Kenite, Moses' father-in-law," affirming that they reside in the original country of their forefathers. A peculiarity of the account was that these Bedouins are said to claim to be both Ishmaelites and Midianites
(Judges 8:2-24; Genesis 25:18) (Dr. Beke, 'A Few Words with Bishop Colenso,' pp. 11, 12).