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Rh Matt. i. 5.) Hamath was built and inhabited by the Hamathites, Canaanites, Ethiopians, &c.—[Herodotus.]

The son of Boaz was Obed, by Ruth, the Moabitish woman—the daughter of Pharaoh, a woman of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians and Hittites—a colored people.—(1 Kings, xi. 1; Matt. i. 5.)

The son of Obed was Jesse, an Ephrathite. The son of Jesse was David, the king of nations, whose sister's name was Abigail, the descendant of Egypt by Ephraim, of the tribe of Joseph.—(Gen. xli. 46: xx; 1 Sam. xvii. 12; Matt, i.)

Abigail, David's sister, married Jether the Ishmaelite, the descendant of Ishmael, an Egyptian.—(Gen. xxi. 25; 1 Chr. ii. 17.)

The son of David, by Bath-shua, or Bath-sheba, the daughter of Ammiel, or Eliam, was Solomon, of her that had been the wife of Uriah the Hittite.—(2 Sam. xi. 3, 12, 24: 1 Chron. iii. 5.) The Hittites are Canaanites—Ethiopians.—[See Grecian historian.]

Solomon, king of Israel. In his reign there were a great number of kings in Africa and Arabia. "Twelve kings reigned over the twelve districts called Nomes, in Egypt. Solomon had seven hundred wives, princesses; daughters of the kings of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians or Sidonians, and Hittites—Ethiopian women."The queen of Ethiopia, or of the South, bare Solomon a son;" and his concubines were three hundred women, [nobility,] of the Ethiopians and Moors.

The son of Solomon, the Hittite, was Raboam, by Naamah, an Ammonitish woman.

King Solomon married the daughter of Pharaoh, king of Egypt; and he gave as a present unto his daughter, Solomon's wife, the city of Gezer. And Solomon was thirteen years in building his own house for the daughter of Pharaoh, his wife; and he finished it, and she came up out of the city of David, unto her house which Solomon had built for her, into Jerusalem, the upper city; a woman of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sodinians and Hittites—an Ethiopian woman.—(1 Kings iii. 1, 7; i. 8, 9; xvi. 24; xi; 2 Chron. xii. 13; Matt. i. 7; Herodotus, &.c.)