Quotes About Hittites

You can't cast Hittites as Trojans; I'd love to do it, but sadly, there are none available!

The Hittites and Amorites were therefore mingled together in the mountains of Palestine like the two races which ethnologists tell us go to form the modern Kelt.

How the resurrection of Hittites has been accomplished, by putting together the fragmentary evidence of Egyptian and Assyrian inscriptions, of strange-looking monuments in Asia Minor, and of still undeciphered hieroglyphics

Elephants' tusks were among the tribute paid by the Hittites to the Assyrian kings. It may be that the extinction of the elephant in this part of Asia was due to Hittite huntsmen.

Like the Egyptians, the Hittites sat when eating.

There are no traces of the Hittites at Shechem or on the eastern side of the Jordan

We must regard the Amorites as the earlier population, among a part of whom the Hittites in later days settled and intermarried.

The Hittites were intruders in Syria as well as in Western Asia Minor.

Bath-sheba was not only the mother of Solomon, but also the distant ancestress of Christ. For us, therefore, these Hittites of Judæa have a very special and peculiar interest.

The Jebusites ... belonged to one or other of these two great races; perhaps, indeed, to both (i.e., Amorites and Hittites).

But of the cities of these people, which the Lord thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth: But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites; as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee.

But in 1500 BCE, they are not ruled directly from Hattusa.

The city is known to the Hittites as Millawanda and will later enter Greek history under the name Miletus.

This is the kingdom of the Hittites.

is called Wilusa by the Hittites and Wilios, later Ilios or Ilion, by the Greeks

It is probable that the Phoenician version of the myth of divine sovereignty derives from, or was strongly influenced by, the Hurrian myth. We may presume that Hesiod made use of the same tradition, known in Greece either through the Phoenicians or directly from the Hittites.

And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,

Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites,

The Hittites replied to Abraham,

Then Abraham rose and bowed down before the people of the land, the Hittites.

Now Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth. So in the presence of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of his city, Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham,

Abraham agreed to Ephronís terms and weighed out for him the price he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver, according to the standard of the merchants.

to Abrahamís possession in the presence of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of his city.

So the field and its cave were deeded by the Hittites to Abraham as a burial site.