The Amalekites who contested Moses leading the Israelites during the Exodus were progeny of Esau’s grandson Amalek, the progeny of Esau in general known as the Edomites, whose domain included to the copper mines of Tinma just north of the Gulf of Aqaba, named for Amalek’s mother Tinma, where no doubt Kenites the Canaanite metallurgists much revered worked hand-in-glove.
