Cherethites is a name given by the Hebrew Bible to one of the ethnic groups in the Levant. Their identity has not been determined with certainty. In some passages it appears that Cherethites was used as a synonym for the Philistines; the Books of Samuel describe the Cherethites as living in the Negev near Ziklag, but the same area is described as the land of the Philistines only two verses later. In the masoretic text's version of the Book of Ezekiel, a group referred to as children of the land league are stated as being allies of Egypt, but in the Septuagint's version of the same passage, the group are described instead as children of the Cherethites; scholars believe that this is a reference to an alliance of the Philistines as a whole, rather than a subgroup.