Ptolem. l. 5. c. 16. & 17. Antiq. l. 14. c. 2.HITTITES, the Land of the Hittites, spoken of in chap. i. of Judges, vs. 26. A man of Bethel went into the Land of the Hittites, and built a city, and called the name thereof Luz. It is our opinion, that this man retired into the Land of the Hittites, southward of the Tribe of Judah, and that he there built Lusa, Elysa, or Lussa, which the Geographers speak of. Josephus says, that the Jews took the city of Lussa from the Arabians. It was in memory of his native place, that this man of Bethel called his new city by the name of Lusa. The Hittites were the descendants of Heth.
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