. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. id. Strong is thy dwelling place,and thou puttest thy nest in a rock.* But itis rather uncertain whether we are to inferfrom this that those of the Kenites who werenear the Dead Sea and Seir sought the limitedshelter which people of their habits requiredin the caverns which abound in the mountainsof that neighbourhood, in preference to livingin tents; or that they had taken refuge inthem under the pressvire of existing circum-stances, when they were in dread of the He-brews. The former seems probab
. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. id. Strong is thy dwelling place,and thou puttest thy nest in a rock.* But itis rather uncertain whether we are to inferfrom this that those of the Kenites who werenear the Dead Sea and Seir sought the limitedshelter which people of their habits requiredin the caverns which abound in the mountainsof that neighbourhood, in preference to livingin tents; or that they had taken refuge inthem under the pressvire of existing circum-stances, when they were in dread of the He-brews. The former seems probable enough,particularly since the caverns are described astheir dwelling places. As merely relating to so obscure a people asthe Kenites, the remarks we have hazardedmight seem of undue length, but will notappear to be the case when it is recollectedthat the subject has necessarily involved anexposition of our views concerning the Mi-dianites, who are of much more importancethan the Kenites alone, and more frequentlymentioned in the History of the Jews. * Num. xxiv. 21. CHAPTER II. ABRAHAM. m. [Bedouin Encampment.] At the time which we have already indicated, the postdiluvian fathers had long been dead.*While they lived, and while the flood and its causes were still fresh in the memories of men,the knowledge of the one true God appears to have remained clear, and uncorrupted by thedevices of the imagination. The wild undertaking at Babel was a strong act of human madnessand of daring pride; but, although it proceeded on most mistaken notions of the character andpower of God, there is no indication that any measure of idolatry was involved in that strangedeed. The ensuing confusion of tongues may have tended, in its ultimate effects—by obstructingcommunications between the several tribes of men—to obscure the knowledge of the facts anddoctrines which Noah and his sons had transmitted from the times before the flood. It couldhave had no immediate and direct effect; but it is e
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