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The scriptures of course tell us who Hemath’s father was:

 

1Ch 1:8  The sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

 

1Ch 1:13  And Canaan begat Zidon his firstborn, and Heth,

1Ch 1:14  The Jebusite also, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,

1Ch 1:15  And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,

1Ch 1:16  And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite (Strong’s 02577)

(See The Chronicles of the Kings of Juda The First Book)

 

2577 - Hebrew

 

2577  Chamathiy  kham-aw-thee'

 

patrial from 2574; a Chamathite or native of Chamath:--Hamathite

 

There you have it:  Ham begat Canaan who begat Hemath (the father of Rechab from whose house the Kenites (Jews) came out of). 

 

1Ch 2:55  And the families of the scribes which dwelt at Jabez; the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and Suchathites. These are the Kenites that came of Hemath, the father of the house of Rechab.

 

SEE SETHIE, THE KENITES (JEWS) CAME OUT OF THE HOUSE OF YOUR “BUDDY” HAM!!!! And, silly boy, Jesus came from the House of Shem not Ham! (See 1 Chron. 1:17-27; Matt. 1:1-16) So I guess Jesus wasn't black after all but a pure Israelite.

You’d think someone who claims to know everything about the scriptures would have known this but instead Sethie (Israelect aka Honkycracker) harshly accused me in a crowded, open Christian chatroom on Paltalk (chat room text) that I was “talking outta [my] rear end” when I suggested that Hemath was the same as Hamath and was of the House of Ham.  To prove me wrong, he suggested I look up the names in Smith’s Bible Dictionary, which of course I did along with Strong’s Concordance.  Here’s what I found.

 

He’math (Strong’s 2574)

 

2574 - Hebrew

 

2574  Chamath  kham-awth'

 

from the same as 2346; walled; Chamath, a place in Syria:--Hamath, Hemath.

 

 

Smith’s Bible Dictionary

(heat ), a person or place named in the genealogical lists of Judah, as the origin of the Kenites, and the "father" of the house of Rechab. (1 Chronicles 2:55) (B.C. 1445.)

 

Ha’math (Strong’s 2574 – same as Hemath)

 

Smith’s Bible Dictionary

(fortress ), the principal city of upper Syria, was situated in the valley of the Orontes, which it commanded from the low screen of hills which forms the water-shed between the source of the Orontes and Antioch.  The Hamathites were a Hamitic race, and are included among the descendants of Canaan. (Genesis 10:18) Nothing appears of the power of Hamath until the time of David. (2 Samuel 8:9) Hamath seems clearly to have been included in the dominions of Solomon. (1 Kings 4:21-24) The "store-cities" which Solomon "built in Hamath," (2 Chronicles 8:4) were perhaps staples for trade. In the Assyrian inscriptions of the time of Ahab (B.C. 900) Hamath appears as a separate power, in alliance with the Syrians of Damascus, the Hittites and the Phoenicians. About three-quarters of a century later Jeroboam the Second "recovered Hamath." (2 Kings 14:28) Soon afterwards the Assyrians took it, (2 Kings 18:34; 19:13) etc., and from this time it ceased to be a place of much importance. Antiochus Epiphanes changed its name to Epiphaneia. The natives, however, called it Hamath even in St. Jerome’s time, and its present name, Hamah , is but slightly altered from the ancient form.

And after showing Sethie this info from Smith’s,  he still insisted on MORE PROOF.  That’s what led to the above exchange (the Snag-It IM from AIM) where he tried to tell me that our Lord Jesus Christ was black.  Poor Sethie, he’s really gone over the top this time. (But I still love Yah!)

 

Love Yah,

Vallie