Adullamites-Canaanites-tribe-of-Judah

Adullam: a-dul'-am (`adhullam):
In the list of 31 kings whom Joshua smote, Adullam follows Hormah, Arad, Libnah, and precedes Makkedah. Adullam is mentioned between Jarmuth and Socoh.
Judas Maccabeus found it still existing as a city (2 Macc 12:38). Common opinion identifies Adullam with the ruin `Aid-el-Ma, 13 miles West-Southwest from Bethlehem (see HGHL, 229 ff). This is in spite of the testimony of the Onomasticon, which, it is alleged, confuses Adullam with Eglon. Presumably the city gave its name to the cave of Adullam, the cave being near the city.
Willis J. Beecher
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ADULLAM. A Canaanite city in Judah (Jos. 12:15); fortified by Rehoboam (2 Ch. 11:7); mentioned by Micah (Mi. 1:15) and inhabited after the Exile (Ne. 11:30). Identified with Tell esh-Sheikh Madhkur (Hðorvat ÐAdullam), midway between Jerusalem and Lachish, the place is usually associated with the cave in which David hid when pursued by Saul (1 Sa. 22:1).
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While bible dictionaries and maps use different sites for Adullam, the city existed before any nation of Israel, before any city of Judah.
Canaan is the set of multiple Asian nations. Some times the tribes are identified by the set and other times the tribes/land were identified by the subset.
Genesis 38
1. And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.
2. And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite, whose name was Shuah; and he took her, and went in unto her.
Shuah is the ONLY wife of Judah, of course she was no Israelite, she was not a descendant of Jacob/Israel but she was identified as a Canaanite.
Shuah the Canaanite had 3 sons, two were killed by God and the other Canaanite descendant was the forefather of the tribe of Judah.
All 3 sons of Judah came out of the wombs of Canaanites and so ALL descendants of Judah are descendants of Canaanites.
Judah himself was a descendant of Chaldeans (ancient Iraqis) and Syrians.
The other woman who was the mother of Judah's other two sons was a Canaanite (Tamar) he hired as a prostutite. Genesis chapter 38.
This is only the tip of the ice berg, the descendants of Judah were composed of multiple Asian tribes.. and NOTHING else.

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