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<strong>H<strong>in</strong>duism</strong>: <strong>What</strong> <strong>Really</strong> Happened <strong>in</strong> <strong>India</strong> – M. M. N<strong>in</strong>an<br />

Hittites aga<strong>in</strong>st the wishes of his mother. David had Hittites <strong>in</strong> his army<br />

and <strong>in</strong> his bodyguard (I K<strong>in</strong>gs, 26: 6; II K<strong>in</strong>gs, 11: 6, 1 Sam 26:6 etc.). So we<br />

should assume that there were a large number of Hittites liv<strong>in</strong>g among the<br />

Hebrews as loyal participat<strong>in</strong>g citizens and <strong>in</strong> respectable positions.<br />

Bathsheba, Solomon's mother, perhaps belonged to this race. Bathsheba’s<br />

husband Uriah was a Hittite who lived close to the palace and was a<br />

general <strong>in</strong> the army of David. David recalled Uriah to come home from<br />

the midst of the war so that he will sleep the night with his wife. But Uriah<br />

was an Aryan with strong martial traditions of the Hittites and refuses to<br />

lie with his wife.<br />

2 Sam. 11:9-11 But Uriah slept at the entrance to the palace with all his<br />

master's servants and did not go down to his house. When David was told,<br />

"Ukiah did not go home," he asked him, "Haven't you just come from a<br />

distance? Why didn't you go home? "Uriah said to David, "The ark and<br />

Israel and Judah are stay<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> tents, and my master Joab and my lord's<br />

men are camped <strong>in</strong> the open fields. How could I go to my house to eat and<br />

dr<strong>in</strong>k and lie with my wife? As surely as you live, I will not do such a<br />

th<strong>in</strong>g!"<br />

Text of III K<strong>in</strong>gs, 10: 28, --. adds that <strong>in</strong> Solomon's time Israelite merchants<br />

bought horses <strong>in</strong> Egypt and from the Syrian and Hittites. He also had<br />

wives from among the Hittites.<br />

We should conclude from these that the displacement of the Hittites from<br />

the land of Israel was a slow process. Thus, the Aryans were forced <strong>in</strong>to<br />

flee<strong>in</strong>g eastward <strong>in</strong>to Asia and westward <strong>in</strong>to Europe where they are now<br />

found. The process can be thought of as a series of migration and<br />

<strong>in</strong>vasion. But we are <strong>in</strong>terested only <strong>in</strong> the group, which came down to<br />

<strong>India</strong> over the mounta<strong>in</strong>s known generally as Indo-Aryans.<br />

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