I thought this was worthwhile info.Amazing what you findjust happened upon this defnition on the catholic.org site. they seem to recognize much of the facts about the kenites (ie, come from kain/Qayin and were smiths and were assimilated into the "jews"). this is what always amazes me, finding stuff that's been under your nose the whole time but was never taught in school. ie, the point is, knowledge of the truth is out there, but not meant for "public" consumption. Pastorial rules again not to teach above a 4th grade level or teach "controversial" topics.here's the link and text
http://www.catholic.org/encyclopedia/view.php?id=6608Cinites(A.V. Kenites).A tribe or family often mentioned in the Old Testament, personified as Qayin from which the nomen gentilicium Qeni is derived. In spite of several attempts at a solution, the origin both of the name and of the tribe is still obscure. Hobab the relative (brother-in-law?) of Moses was a Cinite (Judges, i, 16, iv, 11; as Hobab is also called a Madianite ( Numbers 10:29 ), it follows that the Cinites belonged to that nation. Judging from appearances, the Cinites were true worshippers of Yahweh. Some scholars, on the strength of Ex., xviii, go even so far as to assert that it was from them that the Israelites received a great portion of their monotheistic theology ; the passage, however, deals directly and only with social organization. At any rate, the Rechabites, a clan of the Cinites [I Par. (A. V. I Chron.) ii, 55] were even ascetics and insisted on retaining the nomadic habits of the followers of Yahweh ( Jeremiah 35 ), Though calamities were foretold for the Cinites by Balaam ( Numbers 24:21 sqq. ), they are always represented as being on friendly terms with the Israelites. Owing probably to their alliance with Moses and also to the bonds of a common religion, they befriended the Israelites during their wanderings in the desert [Num., x, 29-32, 1 K. ( A.V. I Sam.) xv, 6] and joined them in their march on Chanaan (Judges, 1, 16). There is no intimation that there ever was any enmity between the two nations (cf. 1 Samuel 27:10 , 30:29 ). The Cinites dwelt south of Palestine with the Amalecites, as is evident from Numbers 24:21 sqq. , 1 Samuel 15:6 , and probably from Judges, i, 16 if, instead of the Massoretic version, we use an alternate Hebrew reading -- a reading which is supported by several Greek manuscripts and by the Sahidic Coptic Version (cf. Ciasca, Fragm. Copto-Sahidica). One clan of the Cinites left the tribe and settled in the north under Haber, at the time of Barac and Debbera ( Judges 4:11 ); Jahel, who slew Sisara, was the wife of Haber the Cinite (ibid., iv, 17 sqq., v, 24 sqq.). From the facts that we find the Cinites south and north, and that in Aramaic the root from which Qayin is derived implies the idea of a smith, Sayce (in Hastings, Dict. Bib., s.v. Kenites) draws the conclusion that the Cinites were a wandering guild of smiths. This view has against it the obvious meaning of the texts (see especially Genesis 15:19 ). Apparently the Cinites shared in the Babylonian Exile and in the Restoration, but they do not appear any more as a distinct tribe and very likely were assimilated with the Jews................................Notice these people are called Smiths because no one(except God) knows who they are or where they came fromthey are:Those that say they are Jews but are Not Just as Rev. 2 an 3 Says(church of Smyrna and Philidelphia)( These are the only two churchs God was pleased with and they both taught this doctrine) I(God) know the slander of those who
say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.They pretended to be Jews they worked silently behind the scenes to gain places of honor to bring about Satans plan againt Christ.*If you read the list of Hebrews that who came out of Eygpt you will find at the end of the list people you were not hebrews they had no Genology to show who they were. No one knew who these claiming to be Jews (hebrews)were.