1 Chronicles 1:11-12

11 Mizraim was the father of the Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites, 12 Pathrusites, Casluhites (from whom the Philistines came) and Caphtorites. (NIV)

The Philistines mentioned here are really just a parenthetical aside. If we don't count them in the complete list, then the complete "Table of Nations" (1 Chronicles 1:5-23) has 70 names. 26 of them are from Shem, 30 are from Ham and 14 are from Japheth.

For the people reading Chronicles, the number 70 would have a special satisfaction and even a spiritual significance. As a multiple of 7, it presents God's hand in the providence of the world.

The Ludites are sometimes described as bowmen (Jeremiah 46:9), and are placed in both Africa (as descendants of Mizraim's Egyptians) and Asia—it is generally accepted that Lud was the kingdom of Lydia in Asia Minor.

The Anamites may have been a minor tribe of the Egyptians. An Assyrian text from the time of Sargon II (722-705 BC) refers to the Anami in Egypt.

The Lehabites were probably the Libyans (Nahum 3:9) or a branch of the Libyans.

The Naphtuhites have not been identified. They were probably an Egyptian tribe; perhaps located in the central Nile region.

The Pathrusites would appear to be an Egyptian people living in the upper (southern) Nile region. Pathros was a city in that part of Egypt (Isaiah 11:11; Jeremiah 44;1,15; Ezekiel 29:14; 30:14).

The Casluhites are also difficult to identify, perhaps because, as the ancestors of the Philistines, they were displaced from Egypt. We learn from the Doctoral Thesis of Dr. John Brug that the Philistines were the product of two distinct races, one a race of giants inhabiting the southwest coast of Canaan; the other a Greek race of a more typical height. They worked and fought together and gave us such diverse individuals as Goliath and Delilah in Scripture.

The Caphtorites were the inhabitants of the island of Crete, although the island of Cyprus is sometimes mentioned as the land of Caphtor, as well. The Talmud (Chullin 60b) mentions that the Caphtories destroyed the Awites and took their land, and that the Awites were the original Philistine people in Abraham's time. This seems to support Dr. Brug's archaeological and exegetical findings.

They were all people, like us, who needed a Savior. Some of their descendants are still in the world. Reaching out to them begins with reaching out to the people right in our own communities. They gospel is the tool we use; the gospel is the only message that saves.