Well this is INTERESTING…

Who were the jews before they were jews? Was "YHWY" worshipped before the jews?

The Shasu were bandits that live in Canaan and in what is now Jordan…

"Regarding the name yhwꜣ, Michael Astour observed that the "hieroglyphic rendering corresponds very precisely to the Hebrew tetragrammaton YHWH, or Yahweh, and antedatesthe hitherto oldest occurrence of that divine name – on the Moabite Stone – by over five hundred years."[11] K. Van Der Toorn concludes: "By the 14th century BC, before the cult of Yahweh had reached Israel, groups of Edomites and Midianites worshipped Yahweh as their god.""

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shasu