But in the- neighbourhood of the Palestinian and* Syrian Hamatha, we find, Ezra represented
by Hazor and Jazer ; Jether by Ituraea, with many corresponding ancient names ; Mered by
Marathus. and Mberad ; Jered and Gedor byAradlis and Gadara ;, Socho and the Sueatbite&- by
Succoth ; while Tarichaea, Summuk, Saraachonitis,, and similar words occurring as names of
places in the same region, designate the abode of the Tirathites and Shimeathites. The region
also is Kenite, for there Heber the Konite dwelt. Among the names of this region many
reminiscenees of Zereth are to be found, su«h as Kartan, Kartah, Zartanahj &g. But Zereth,.
with Zohar and Ethnan,. connect with the family of Bethlehem in Helah, their mother, who
was probably a daughter of Salma, the father of Bethlehem. It is to this family of Bethlehem
accijrdingly that Hemath is said to have belonged); la the- region west and south of Bethlehem
all the names- already found in the neighbourliood of the sea of Galilee and northward are
also to be found, with the exception of Hamath, denoting perhaps the first Palestinian settfe-
]n«Dts of the family of Ezra. In the ethnic connections of H^eniath his> Ashehurite- relationship
appears. As Araythaon, he la the son of Gretheus or Zereth ; and as Aemathion, of Tithonus,
Laomedon, the father of the latter, being, I thiak, a repetition of the name of his graadsoli.
