Our DNA From Abraham, Ruth, Lot and the Moabites

 Nadene Goldfoot                                         

Abram, later called Abraham, was born in the city of Ur of the Chaldees, a Babylonian city,   near the Euphrates River and the Persian Gulf.  He was said to be related to the Moabites.  Ur has become very well excavated land  by Sir Leonard Woolley who found it had a highly-civilized nature of the city in Abraham's time.  

Ruth, a Moabite, married into his family line.  She had married the son of Naomi, a woman who was married to Elimelech, son of Nahshon, son of Amminadab, son of Ram or "Aram, "son of Hezron, son of Perez, son of Judah!  

                Ruth and Naomi gleaning in the fields to have food

The son of Naomi  was Mahlon.  She had another son named Chilion.  Mahlon, Chilion, Naomi and Ruth were living in Moab and Mahlon was killed. 

 Naomi decided to return to her land and Ruth insisted on accompanying her.  The two women cared for each other and really didn't want to part.  Naomi was in need of the help Ruth was giving her.  

They returned and eventually Naomi realized that Ruth was still young and could benefit from another marriage.  She had a cousin that was not married;  Boaz.  Naomi made a shidduch and Boaz married Ruth.

Boaz and Ruth had a son, Oved/Obed.  He married a lady and their son was Jesse.  Jesse married a daughter of Ithra and they had 8 children.                                        

 The 8th was David, who grew up to become David, King of Israel.  Here David's ancestor was a Moabite, people he wound up fighting against later in his life.  

Moab was a country in Southern Transjordan, and  that area was populated by Arabs; taken over by Prince Abdullah of Arabia who brought in his contingent of his own followers to live with him in his new land of Transjordan, renamed later to Jordan.  Today, Moab is part of southern Jordan.  The existence of the Kingdom of Moab is attested to by numerous archaeological findings, most notably the Mesha Stele, which describes the Moabite victory over an unnamed son of King Omri of Israel, an episode also noted in 2 Kings 3. The Moabite capital was Dibon. According to the Hebrew Bible, Moab was often in conflict with its Israelite neighbours to the west. (Amazing that the same thing has continued into this day and age.)

Rashi explains the word Mo'ab to mean "from the father", since ab in Hebrew and Arabic and the rest of the Semitic languages means "father". He writes that as a result of the immodesty of Moab's name, God did not command the Israelites to refrain from inflicting pain upon the Moabites in the manner in which he did with regard to the Ammonites. Fritz Hommel regards Moab as an abbreviation of Immo-ab =  Immoab="his mother is his father." Oh yes, The story is that Lot got drunk and fathered his 2 daughters' sons, Ammon and Moab. Their DNA should reflect this somehow but now? We're already carrying some DNA from Moabites, for sure.   

The Moabites first inhabited the rich highlands at the eastern side of the chasm of the Dead Sea, extending as far as Wadi Mujib to Wadi Hasa, from which country they expelled the Emim, the original inhabitants (Deuteronomy 2:11), but they themselves were afterward driven southward by warlike tribes of Amorites, who had crossed the river Jordan. These Amorites, described in the Bible as being ruled by King Sihon, confined the Moabites to the country south of the river Arnon, which formed their northern boundary (Numbers 21:13; Judges 11:18).

The Ammonites presented a serious problem to the Pharisees because many marriages between Israelite men and Ammonite (and Moabite) women had taken place in the days of Nehemiah. The men had married women of the various nations without conversion, which made the children not Jewish. So we have intermarried with both Arab lines.  

David's relatives thus were Arabs as well as Jews of today. Originally, the Moabites were kindred to the Israelites, so they  had shared genes from the same origin, and that origin was Lot, Abraham's nephew.  Both the Moabites and the Ammonites came from Lot, so were related. Lot's father was Haran, brother of Abraham.  

Haran, brother of Abram and father of Lot, lived and died at Ur of the Chaldees (Gen.11:26-31).  It was said to be a trading town of NW Mesopotamia, center of a moon cult. Assyrian inscriptions from this period mention a Habiru settlement in the vicinity which some scholars link with Terah's residence there.  Terah was Abraham and Haran's father.  

Of course, our family line goes WAY back in time.  Abraham was born in the 2nd millennium BCE, in about 1948 BCE.  That was about 3,971 years ago, or rounded out, more like 4,000 years ago.

I love the fact that this information comes to me through the Torah (5 Books of Moses who is said to have written it) which is also a part of the Tanakh (Bible).  The explanation of the family line of people, our Homo Sapiens,  is fantastic considering how far back it was created.  They saw that the male line was not only special socially, but guessed at its importance through DNA.  We can trace the male line through their Y haplogroup.  The same can be done with the female line, the Mt haplogroup, but I find it is a lot harder with us since often women's names were not written down.  

According to a 2010 study by Behar et al. titled "The genome-wide structure of the Jewish people", Palestinians tested clustered genetically close to Bedouins, Jordanians and Saudi Arabians which was described as "consistent with a common origin in the Arabian Peninsula".

 In the same year a study by Atzmon and Harry Ostrer concluded that the Palestinians were, together with Bedouins, Druze and southern European groups, the closest genetic neighbors to most Jewish populations.

There are about 4 generations every 100 years (1 generation=25 years).  There are 40 100's in the past 4,000 years from now to Abraham.  40 x 4 generations=160.  Arabs could be our 160th cousins;  you know, like 1st cousins; 2nd cousins, etc.  We go way back to have Lot as our common shared ancestor.  (hope I solved this correctly as my back is hurting and I can't sit here any longer).  

Reference:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_the_Palestinians#:~:text=One%20DNA%20study%20by%20Nebel,in%20the%20seventh%20century%20AD%22.

Those Antagonistic Relatives, Ammonites and Moabites Could Be Our Relatives

 Nadene Goldfoot                                            

 "G-d invited Moses up to Mount Nebo where He showed His beloved prophet the Promised Land before his death. Deuteronomy 34:4–5 records, “Then the Lord said to him, ‘This is the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob when I said, “I will give it to your descendants.” I have let you see it with your eyes, but you will not cross over into it.’ And Moses the servant of the Lord died there in Moab, as the Lord had said.”

Jordan River runs from Mt. Hermon to the Dead Sea of about 87 miles directly but has to wind around for 200 miles. Tributaries from Transjordan are Rivers Yarmuk, Jabboak, Heshbon

Abraham had a nephew named Lot.  Lot traveled from Aram-Naharaim with his Uncle Abe to Canaan with him on his contingent.  Lot's father was Haran who was Abraham's brother, both sons of Terah of Ur of the Chaldees.  Each traveled with their own sheep and sheepherders to their new site for this was to be a permanent move.

The sheepherders had a quarrel over pasture-land and invading each other's choice spots.  They parted company with Lot settling in the city of Sodom.  This was a poor choice of people, as he was captured by 5 kings (like mayors of their towns) who had just attacked the country.  Abraham rescued Lot. He had all the sheepherders with him.  It was quite the escape, with Sodom on fire and Lot's wife looking back at it and turning into salt, quite a hot fire at that.  At a later  point, his daughters produced 2 sons Lot had sired when drunk, Ammon and Moab.  From them came the Ammonites and the Moabites.  

    1.   Ammonites, one of the Bull worshippers;   didn't listen to the lecture from Lot's Uncle Abraham about what  G-d was not.  

Ammonites were found in Transjordan and of course were Semitic, related to Abraham. Remember that this was in the days of human sacrificing.  

 They were known best  from the 13th to 18th centuries BCE, then declined, and were absorbed into Arab tribes. They kept attacking the Israelites after Israelites had occupied Canaan.  The Ammonites were defeated at the hands of Jephtah, the Israelite judge who lived in Gilead and King Saul.   Jephtah even defeated the Ephraimites, his cousins,  who  opposed his leadership. The Bible repeats the story  Jephtah said that before fighting the Ammonites, he vowed to sacrifice whatever came first from his home, should he return safely;  he was met by his daughter and,, with her consent, performed his vow.  (Judg: 11).  (I notice that she and Abraham's son, Isaac, also went along with being human sacrifices).  Back then, they may have taken that ritual to be the norm, hard to believe, though.

Abraham's DNA, I figure, would be the same as Moses and his brother, Aaron;  and Aaron had to be in today's DNA lingo, a J1 haplotype as they were from the tribe of Levi, one of the 12 tribes of Jacob.  Of course, the DNA does mutate somewhat through 4,000 years so would be carrying that knowledge, too.  All of the males born with Abraham as the origin should be of J1. J1 is known as the Cohen gene-meaning from the direct line of Aaron.  All other Levites may have an altered line of J1.   

They were changed with new titles from Israelites to Jews much later after Solomon's death in 920 BCE, to past 135 CE when the Romans killed Bar Kokhba who held Jerusalem for 3 years and then was killed.  Those remnants in Judah became known as Jews.

 Great question! The Hebrew Bible doesn’t have a whole lot to say about individual Moabite men, and those texts that do talk about Moabite men (like Num 22-24) don’t talk about them in relationship to Moabite women.

This is probably because the Moabites, who were Israel’s close neighbors, were primarily of concern to the Israelites when it came to war or Moab’s political alliances with Israel’s enemies or to intermarriage. So what Moabite men and women did amongst themselves wasn’t really important to the biblical authors. It only mattered when they interacted with the Israelites in some way.

The alleged sexual promiscuity of the Moabite women was primarily a concern to biblical authors who believed that these women would lead Israelite men into worshiping Moabite gods (see Num 25:1-5 and 1Kgs 11:1-8). The idea that the foreign woman is a dangerous temptress is a very common theme in the Bible; it is probably a literary device rather than a reflection of historical reality—that is, these are ancient “yo’ mama” slanders, not historical facts. The role of Moabite men in influencing Moabite women’s behavior doesn’t really come into the picture, because the stories aren’t about actual relationships and actual people. Yo, yea of little faith, our DNA might give us an idea through Mt haplotypes,, and remember, this was back in the days of human sacrificing.  Sex offenses, hmmm, a whole town was slaughtered because of a rape.    

   2. Moabites were living in Transjordan which is bounded by the Heshbon River in the North, and the  Zered River in  the South, the Jordan River and the Dead Sea to the West, and the Syrian Desert on the East.                                        

 They were the brothers of the Ammonites.  They spoke a biblical Hebrew.  Moabites took the land from the Rephaim (Emim), an  even more ancient people in Transjordania in the time of Abraham who apparently settled near Jerusalem in the "Valley of Rephaim."                            

During the 40 years of the Exodus (c.1579-1500 BCE) part of the Moab land came under the rule of the Amorite monarch, Sihon.  After his defeat by the Israelites, it was occupied by the Israelites, giving all three reason to fight over it.  Moabites originally were divided into family tribes, then united into a single kingdom, and it was their 2nd ruler, King Balak who summoned Balaam (Heathen prophet who was divinely inspired) to curse the Israelites.   Of course, the curse was turned into a blessing on the Israelites. 

                                                Baal Peor
 It was on Balaam's advise that the Midianites invited the Israelites to worship Baal Peor and Balaam was killed by the Israelites on the battlefield.  Balaam had the characteristics of a Mesopotamian priest and soothsayer but also appears as a faithful servant of G-d.  The rabbis listed him as one of the 7 prophets who spoke to heathen nations.  the biblical report of Balaam's reproof by his ass (donkey) is interpreted by Maimonides as a vision.  

Resource:

The new Standard Jewish Encyclopedia

https://www.bibleodyssey.org/articles/moabite-men/

Samaria Before and After David: Ancient History of Our Ancient Ancestors

Nadene Goldfoot

   King David was born in about 1010 BCE and died after 970 BCE .  He was the youngest son of Jesse and was born in Bethlehem.  His 1st wife was king Saul's daughter, Michal.  He lived in Hebron, his temporary capital,  where he became king of Judah, there for 8 years, then captured the Jebusite stronghold of Jebus, later Jerusalem which he took for his capital.                               

Samaria (Shomron) was the name of Israel's capital city and also of the Northern section of Israel's capital.  It was founded in about 880 BCE by Israel's king Omri and was on a hill bought from Shemer told about in (I Kings 16:24).  The site, 7 miles NW of Shechem/Nablus) was on an isolated elevation dominating a wide countryside.  The city took up 25 acres and had an acropolis with a wall which was the royal palace built in an Assyrian style.  

Samaria as a capital withstood the siege of the Syrians but fell in 721 BCE  to Sargon II of Assyria who resettled it with Cutheans.  They intermingled with the remnants of the former population and were the ancestors of the Samaritans.

     Persian Empire from 700 to 300 BCE

  The Cuthites are mentioned in Josephus, Antiquities Book 11, Chapter 4, as "Cutheans", naming them as those who were brought from Media and Persia and "planted" in Samaria by the King of Assyria after he had conquered the Ten Tribes of Israel. They are not mentioned in detail in the Bible.  

The Cuthites were to blame for the postponing of the construction of the Second Temple, during the reign of Cyrus the Great. They did this after the Jewish people returned from Babylonian exile, and first agreed to help them, but after the Jews refused, they lied to king Cyrus who postponed the building process. Their religion was quite different from the Israelites:  Cuth (or Cuthah) is mentioned in the 2 Kings 17:30 in reference to the gods or idols made and worshiped by different tribes, which took place in the former holy places of exiled Israelites (King James Bible trans.): "And the men of Babylon made Succothbenoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima.

Japheth in his father Noah's blessing was promised wide territories, progenitor of 14 peoples mostly in the Indo-European language group, ranging from the Caucasus Mts to the Aegean Sea.  Shem is where the Semites came from.  Today with DNA, scientists have given us letters of the alphabet to distinguish lines of people from one another.  We do carry different DNA, though most is the same, being humans and all.  Our ancestors weren't too off track in creating their own way of identification.  

For instance:  J1 (Cohen gene)  Human Y chromosome haplogroup J1-M267 is a common male lineage in West Asia. One high-frequency region-encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, southern Mesopotamia, and the southern Levant-resides ~ 2000 km away from the other one found in the Caucasus.  The gene from brother of Moses-Aaron's descendants. 

          Western Asia 

 Media indeed was an ancient Asiatic country.  The Torah refers to the Medes as sons of Japheth.  they cooperated with the Babylonians in the 6th century BCE, but were defeated by Cyrus of Persia (538 BCE)  who was a good king to the Jews, even thought to be Queen Esther's son.  Actually, it is said that Biblical sources, such as ancient Greek writers- sources for Christianity, confused the Medes with the Persians. 

 We know much more about the Persians, today's Iranians.The ancient Persians were an Indo-Iranian people who migrated to the Iranian plateau during the end of the second millennium B.C.E., possibly from the Caucasus or Central Asia. Originally a pastoral people who roamed the steppes with their livestock, they were ethnically related to the Bactrians, Medes and Parthians.

Later, the name of Samaria was used to describe the entire northern region of the central highlands of Palestine, as in Judea and Samaria, used much after King Solomon died and Judah was left, along with some of Benjamin and Simeon, as the remains of Israel after the 721 BCE tragedy.  

Before it became Samaria, no doubt the land belonged to the Ammonites of Ammon.  They were an ancient people and country in  what we call Transjordan of yesterday.  Their capital was Rabbath Ammon which is today's modern Amman.

They were a Semitic tribe, told about in the Bible (Gen.19:38), relatives of the Israelites  Their main period of development was from the 13th to 8th centuries BCE, following which it declined, being eventually absorbed into Arab tribes from Saudi Arabia. 

     Against the Ammonites  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLbAFzm8YAc 

After the Israelites occupied Canaan, they were frequently attacked by the Ammonites who suffered defeats at the hands of Jephthah, 12th century BCE Israelite judge who lived in Gilead which was threatened by the Ammonites,  and Saul, a Benjamite son of Kish, fighter of Philistines and Ammonites who was the 1st king of Israel, chosen by Samuel.  

After Saul, David annexed their kingdom but they regained their independence and attacked the southern part of Israel called Judah on several occasions mentioned in (II Chron.20; 27:5;  II Kings 24:2).  

After the destruction of the 1st Temple, Baalis, king of Ammon, instigated the murder of Gedaliah, presumably to weaken Judah still further as told in (Jer.40:14).  

On the return from Babylon, Ammon joined Judah's enemies and Tobiah the ammonite supported Sanballat in his opposition to Nehemiah which is described in (Neh.2:10). 

 During the Hasmonean rising, the Ammonites aided the Syrian forces and were defeated by Judah the Maccabee in 163 BCE.  

Milcom or Milkom (Ammonite: 𐤌𐤋𐤊𐤌 *Mīlkām; Hebrew: מִלְכֹּם Mīlkōm) was the name of either the national god, or a popular god, of the Ammonites. He is attested in the Hebrew Bible and in archaeological finds from the former territory of Ammon. His connections to other deities with similar names attested in the Bible and archaeologically are debated, as well as his relationship to the Canaanite supreme deity El, or the putative deity Moloch.

Not much is known about the Ammonite culture as no literary remains have survived, but there have been excavations in trans-jordan that indicate a developed kingdom with fortified frontiers, artistic tastes, and advanced agriculture.  They worshiped fertility gods, the chief being Milkom.  

Resource:

https://www.livescience.com/who-were-the-persians#:~:text=The%20ancient%20Persians%20were%20an,the%20Bactrians%2C%20Medes%20and%20Parthians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milcom

Ammonites, Part II; Ancient People From Lot, Nephew of Abraham

Nadene Goldfoot                                                                           

The Ammonites also lived in what is today's Jordan, coming from Lot; nephew of Abraham.  Their capital was called Rabbath Ammon, which is where modern Amman sits.  Being related to Abraham, they were also a Semitic tribe related to the Israelites.  That's the tribe Abraham had come from.  They developed throughout the 13th to 8th centuries BCE, then declined and were finally absorbed into other Arab tribes.
                                                                             

Statue of Ammonite King 

When the Israelites reached their goal after 40 years of traveling from Egypt to Canaan, they occupied it, but were often attacked by the Ammonites.  It took the Israelite leaders of Jephthah, an Israelite judge living in Gilead where the Ammonites had threatened his people,  and King Saul to finally defeat them.  Jephthah also had to fight against the Ephraimites who were one of the 12 tribes and therefore cousins, but they didn't like his leadership.  Jephthah did a deplorable thing by today's standards.  Before he went out to fight the Ammonites, he made a vow, which was something very sacred in those days.  He vowed to sacrifice whatever came first from his home if he returned safely. "Whatever emerges---what will emerge from the doors of my house---toward me when I return in peace from the Children of Ammon, it shall belong to Hashem and I shall offer it up as an elevation-offering."   What a way to pray for safe-keeping!  He probably thought some animal would appear.  Instead, it was his only daughter, his only child!  Judg. 11:30-12-5 telling that she consented to the ordeal  for her father's vow to be accepted.  He saw her and tore his clothes in shock and said, "Alas, my daughter!  You have brought me to my knees, and you have joined those who trouble me.  I have opened my mouth to Hashem and I cannot recant!"  She replied, "Let this thing be done for me:  Let me be for 2 months, and I shall go and wail upon the mountains and weep over my virginity, I and my friends."  He released her for 2 months. and then she returned to him.  She never knew a man.  She was not killed in sacrifice as human sacrifice was not allowed, but lived in seclusion all her life and she devoted herself to prayer.  After this, from year to hear the daughters of Israel would go to lament with the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite, 4 days of the year.
                                                                   

King David (1010 BCE-970 BCE) fighting against the Moabites and Ammonites

 King David annexed their kingdom into Israel but they regained their independence and after King Solomon died in 920 BCE, they attacked the newer kingdom of Judah on many occasions.  Judah's first king was Rehoboam (933-917 BCE).a son of King Solomon.  Rehoboam had an Ammonite wife, Naamah!  Out of the 12 tribes, only Judah, Simeon and most of Benjamin were loyal to him.  Rehoboam had refused to lower Solomon's taxes on the people, so the nation of Israel split into Judah, named for the largest tribe following the king, and Israel then got Jeroboam (933-912) as their king, who was an Ephraimite.  He had been a superintendent of forced labor during King Solomon's days, and later led a revolt against Solomon's monarchy because of the taxation and forced labor.
                                                                           

Abram and Lot, his nephew, son of Abram's brother, Haran.  He had made the journey
with Abram from Aram-Naharaim to Canaan.  They parted company when their shepherds
quarreled with each other over pasture land for their sheep.  Lot settled in Sodom
but was captured by 5 kings who had attacked it.  It took Abram to rescue him with his men.
While he was drunk one night after losing his wife, his daughters took advantage of him to have sex,
thinking there were no other men in the world, and they had sons, Ammon and Moab.  This
explains why these 2 tribes were so cantankerous to the tribe of Israel.

After the destruction of the 1st Temple of Solomon in 586 BCE by the Babylonians, the king of Ammon, Baalis, instigated the murder of Gedaliah, the governor of Judah from a noble Jewish family to weaken Judah even more. Gedaliah had been appointed by the Babylonians.  Gedaliah was murdered by his own commander, Ishmael ben Nethaniah and his followers.  They had been planning a revolt against Babylon along with their neighboring peoples.  This caused Gedaliah's own supporters to flee for their lives to Egypt.  Actually, Gedaliah's murder, even though he was selected by the Babylonians, was bad for the Jews because it dashed any hope of holding the Jewish community together after the Babylonian conquest.   When the Israelites finally returned from Babylon, Ammonites joined Judah's enemies and Tobiah the Ammonite supported Sanballat in his opposition to Nehemiah, the next governor of Judah in 444 BCE.  His record was that he had been the cupbearer to the Persian king, Artaxerxes I.  It was Artaxerxes who appointed him governor of Judah .  On reaching Jerusalem, he organized the repair of its walls, completed in 52 days which was miraculous considering the builders were bothered by interference by neighboring peoples.  He was a great governor and even worked on social reforms.  He got people to start observing the Sabbath again from a lapse of negligence.  The law of cancelling debts owed by the poor was brought back.  After all, it had been 142 years that the Jews were taken out of Judah as slaves by the foreign and very different Babylonians who had been led by Nebuchadnezzer.

Found in Tel Siran (Tell Hesban) in Jordan is this metal bottle telling about King Amminadab II of Ammon. It is 5.6 miles  North of Madaba.  When the Israelites arrived in Canaan, they assigned this land which is east of the Jordan River to their tribe of Reuben.  

                                                                                 

During the Hasmonean rising, the Ammonites aided the Syrian forces, but Judah the Maccabee defeated them in 163 BCE.  Judah was the hero in the Jewish Chanukah story celebrated in December today.
                                                                                 

Ammon Citadel in Jordan's capital dating to Ammonite days 

Excavations have been done in Jordan show that the Ammonites had a developed kingdom with fortified frontiers, artistic tastes and advanced agriculture.  They worshipped fertility gods, the chief being Milkom.  Their religion was much the same as the Moabites who also had an adjoining kingdom that is now part of Jordan.  Being they were from Lot, DNA testing would probably not be able to tell if they were Moabites or Ammonites.
                                                                                       

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The Hashemite tribe from Saudi Arabia now live in Jordan as of 1921.  " The family belongs to the Dhawu Awn, one of the branches of the Hasanid Sharifs of Mecca – also referred to as Hashemites – who ruled Mecca continuously from the 10th century until its conquest by the House of Saud in 1924. Their eponymous ancestor is Hashim ibn Abd Manaf, great-grandfather of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad (570-632). . 
                                                                                     

On the left is Emir; then King Feisal, friend to Jewish leaders; and
on the right is King Abdullah Ist-brothers.  

The current dynasty was founded by Sharif Hussein ibn Ali. One of his sons was the first king of Transjordan, Abdullah I.  "His sons Abdullah and Faisal assumed the thrones of Jordan and Iraq in 1921. The land had been already promised to be the Jewish Homeland by the British, who went back on their word to the Jews in making this deal to take place after World War I. 

"In fact, under Hashemite control east Jerusalem was restored to rubble. Jewish shrines and cemeteries were sacked, torched, and defiled and access to Jews was forbidden and severely restricted for Christians."  Jordan attacked Israel with other neighboring states  in 1967 and lost.  They lost land on the Western side of the Jordan River this way to Israel, which is referred to as the "West Bank."  It is actually the side of the original Israel and Judah!!  Jews now live there as well as the many Arabs calling themselves Palestinians.  What they really are are people who entered around 1880 following Russian Jews making aliyah at that time who were escaping from more pogroms.  These "Palestinians"  came from near and far; all Muslims, with only a few being native Palestinians, meaning people who had migrated there after the Roman attacks and occupation of Jerusalem and war with the Jews in 135 CE when the Romans decided to call the land Palestine in order to wipe out the memory of Israel and Judah.  .  
                                                                            

Queen Rania of Jordan b: August 31, 1970 in Kuwait.
then resettled in 1991 in Amman, Jordan during Gulf War.  

"The Umayyads, who were fair to the Jews when they invaded them after 661 ,  were of the same tribe as the Hashemites, but a different clan.  They were defeated in 750, Since 1999,  Jordan is being ruled by Abdullah II, grandson of Abdullah I.  He  married in 1993  a woman said to be a Palestinian, Queen Rania.  She was born in Kuwait.  Her father was a doctor, and he and his wife were Palestinians from Judea/Samaria  who had moved to Kuwait.  

Reference:  The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia
Tanach; The Stone Edition (Bible)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashemites
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/the-hashemites-in-palestine-a-royal-scam-that-keeps-on-scamming
Textbook: Middle East, Past & Present by Yahya Armajani, Thomas M. Ricks; used by Portland State U.
http://www.biography.com/people/queen-rania-23468#synopsis