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Many simply cannot believe the plain records of the ancient peoples who came to the British Isles! They just can’t seem to believe that these peoples could really have been descendants of Shem. We shall notice the same tendency for critics of early Scotch-Irish history. They think the early history (which they call folklore) of these peoples cannot be true when it connects such peoples directly with the lands and peoples mentioned in the Bible. However, Alfred the Great, who was himself a Saxon (son of Isaac) traced his genealogy right back to “Sem” (or Shem) and on back to Adam. |
by Raymond F. McNair
In our dogged search for the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel, we come into contact with another ancient, but important, people of Northwest Europe.
What is the name of that famous people?
There is another name mentioned on the Behistun Rock Inscriptions — the name Saka (in the Persian language), or according to Professor Rawlinson, Sacae, (in the Susian language Sakka). Is this name “Saka” connected with the people of Israel? It certainly is!
We are informed by the Bible that the descendants of Israel were known as Israelites. The suffix “ite” means “son of.” The descendants of the twelve sons of Jacob were likewise called after the names of the twelve patriarchal Fathers. The sons of Levi were called Levites, the descendants of Benjamin were called Benjamites and the children of Dan were called Danites, and so on.
The Sons of Isaac
Were the descendants of Isaac never called after his name? “And God said unto Abraham. Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad [Ishmael — Abraham’s first-born son], and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah has said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; because in ISAAC shall thy seed be called” (Genesis 21:12).
Notice also that this same statement is repeated twice in the New Testament. See Romans 9:7 and Hebrews 11:18. Why did YEHOVAH God solemnly declare in three different places in the Bible that Abraham’s seed would be called after the name of Isaac if he did not mean exactly what He said? Where (and how) in history were the progeny of Abraham and Isaac ever called after the name of ISAAC?
The names “Saxon,” “Saksun,” “Sakaisuna,” and “sons of Sacae” all definitely refer to the “sons of Isaac.”
The “I” Has Been Dropped
It is quite common in some languages to drop the initial syllable from a word. Dr. Schrader points out that “the Assyrians dropped the ‘i’ when they spoke of an lsraelite.” Also, it was quite common to sometimes add a new final syllable to a name. “Ahab is called by Shalmanassar II A-HA-AB-BU SIR-‘-LAI, i.e. “Ahab of Israel” in an inscription discovered on the banks of the Tigris.
This is undoubtedly what has happened in regard to the Isaac-sons (Saxons). The “i” has been dropped and the basic part of the word “sak” or “sac” has been retained. “Son” simply means son of. So the word “Saxons” means “sons of (I)SAC” or “sons of Isaac. Later, we shall see quotations from reliable historical sources proving that “Saxon” derives from “sons of Sac” or “sons of Sak” (meaning “sons of Isaac”).
In the days of the Judges, the Ephraimites could not sound the “h” in the word “Shibboleth.”
During a struggle between Israelitish factions, the inability of the Ephraimites to pronounce the “h” cost many of them their lives. Speaking of fugitive Ephraimites we read: “Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand” (Judges 12:6).
Many Hebrew-speaking Jews have difficulty pronouncing their “h’s” to this day. Why do we all say “Semitic” instead of ”Shemitic”? Is it not because the “h” has been dropped in this word?
It is quite common among many of the people of the British Isles even today, to drop an initial letter in some words. This is especially true of the letter “h”, which is often dropped by many English-speaking people who live in Great Britain.
“Where did I ‘ang me ‘at?”, a Welsh friend of mine once asked. And a British plumber told me one day, that it was “air” which had stopped up my drain. He had to repeat himself several times before I realized that he meant “hair” instead of “air.” …
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE – The Origin of the Saxons
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