Hittites

• Andonite stock

80:8.2These de­scen­dants of An­don were dis­persed through most of the moun­tain­ous re­gions of cen­tral and south­east­ern Eu­rope. They were of­ten re­in­forced by ar­rivals from Asia Mi­nor, which re­gion they oc­cu­pied in con­sid­er­able strength. The an­cient Hit­tites stemmed di­rectly from the An­don­ite stock; their pale skins and broad heads were typ­i­cal of that race. This strain was car­ried in Abra­ham’s an­ces­try and con­tributed much to the char­ac­ter­is­tic fa­cial ap­pear­ance of his later Jew­ish de­scen­dants who, while hav­ing a cul­ture and re­li­gion de­rived from the And­ites, spoke a very dif­fer­ent lan­guage. Their tongue was dis­tinctly An­don­ite.

• constantly raided tribes of Palestine

93:5.6Upon ar­riv­ing at Salem, Abra­ham and Lot chose a hilly fast­ness near the city where they could de­fend them­selves against the many sur­prise at­tacks of north­ern raiders. At this time the Hit­tites, As­syr­i­ans, Phil­is­tines, and other groups were con­stantly raid­ing the tribes of cen­tral and south­ern Pales­tine. From their stronghold in the hills Abra­ham and Lot made fre­quent pil­grim­ages to Salem.

• taught Salem cult to descendants of Adamson

93:7.2The de­scen­dants of Adam­son, clus­tered about the shores of the lake of Van, were will­ing lis­ten­ers to the Hit­tite teach­ers of the Salem cult. From this one­time And­ite cen­ter, teach­ers were dis­patched to the re­mote re­gions of both Eu­rope and Asia. Salem mis­sion­ar­ies pen­e­trated all Eu­rope, even to the British Isles. One group went by way of the Faroes to the An­don­ites of Ice­land, while an­other tra­versed China and reached the Japanese of the east­ern is­lands. The lives and ex­pe­ri­ences of the men and women who ven­tured forth from Salem, Mes­o­po­ta­mia, and Lake Van to en­lighten the tribes of the East­ern Hemi­sphere pre­sent a heroic chap­ter in the an­nals of the hu­man race.

• organized and highly civilized

96:2.2Again and again the Ara­bian Semites fought their way into the north­ern Prom­ised Land, the land that “flowed with milk and honey,” but just as of­ten were they ejected by the bet­ter-or­ga­nized and more highly civ­i­lized north­ern Semites and Hit­tites. Later, dur­ing an un­usu­ally se­vere famine, these rov­ing Bed­ou­ins en­tered Egypt in large num­bers as con­tract la­bor­ers on the Egyp­tian pub­lic works, only to find them­selves un­der­go­ing the bit­ter ex­pe­ri­ence of en­slave­ment at the hard daily toil of the com­mon and down­trod­den la­bor­ers of the Nile val­ley.