One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Cherethites. Every Cherethites in the Bible
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Cherethites
כְּרֵתִי
The Cherethites were a Philistine tribe that often served as royal guards.
- verses
- 3
- first named
- 1 Samuel 30:14
- last named
- Ezekiel 25:16
Description
Cherethites in the text
The Cherethites were a Philistine tribe mentioned in several passages in the Old Testament. In 1Sa.30.14, they are described as living in the Negev region, and their territory was raided by the Amalekites. The Cherethites, along with the Pelethites, often served as royal guards and soldiers for Israelite kings, particularly during the reigns of David and Solomon (2Sa.8.18; 15.18; 20.7; 1Ki.1.38,44). In prophetic oracles, Ezk.25.16 and Zep.2.5 mention the Cherethites as one of the Philistine groups facing God's judgment for their hostility towards Israel. The Cherethites are closely associated with the Philistines and were likely one of the major Philistine tribes settled in Canaan.
Relations
Direct connections
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Stands in the same events as
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The pattern
Where Cherethites is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
3 verses across 3 of 66 books; 63 write the name nowhere. Named in 1 Samuel (1), Ezekiel (1) and Zephaniah (1).
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Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 3, across 3 books.
Onward
Where this page goes
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