Cherethites

Kair´uh-thits

A people, probably Cretans, who lived in the area to the southeast of Philistia (“the Negeb of the Cherethites,” (1Sam 30:14). As mercenaries, they constituted a section of David’s personal army under the leadership of Benaiah, son of Jehoiada (2Sam 8:18; 2Sam 20:23).