his
name
and
fool
is
he.'
The
next
day
Nabal
was
informed
of
all
that
had
happened,
and
the
shock
of
discovery
brought
on
an
apoplectic
seizure,
which
caused
his
death.
Abigail
then
became
David's
wife.
W.
F.
Boyd.
KAB
ARIAS
(1
Es
9")
=Neh
8',
Hashbaddanah.
NABAT(H)^ANS
(1
Mac
5^
985).—
See
Arabia,
Aretas,
Edom,
Nebaioth.
NABOTH.
—
A
man
of
Jezreel,
owner
of
a
vineyard
adjoining
the
palace
of
Ahab
(1
K
21').
The
king,
desiring
to
add
the
vineyard
to
his
lands,
offered
to
buy
it
or
exchange
it
for
another.
Naboth,
however,
refused
to
give
up
'the
inheritance
of
his
fathers.'
Jezebel,
Ahab's
wife,
by
using
the
royal
authority
with
the
elders
of
the
city,
had
Naboth
accused
of
treason
and
blasphemy,
and
stoned
to
death.
As
Ahab
went
to
take
possession
of
the
vineyard,
he
was
met
by
Elijah,
the
prophet,
who
pronounced
doom
on
him
and
his
house.
The
murder
of
Naboth
seems
to
have
deeply
impressed
the
popular
mind,
and
the
deaths
of
Joram
and
Jezebel
near
the
spot
were
regarded
as
Divine
retribution
on
the
act
(2
K
9»-
»).
W.
F.
Boyd.
KABTTCHODONOSOR,
the
Gr.
form
of
the
name
Nebuchadrezzar
(wh.
see),
is
retained
by
RV
in
1
Es
l*™-.
Ad.
Est
11«,
Bar
l"-
NACON.—
See
Chidon.
NADAB.—
1.
The
eldest
son
of
Aaron
(Ex
628,
nu
32
26«°,
1
Ch
6'
24');
accompanied
Moses
to
Sinai
(Ex
241.
SI.)
;
was
admitted
to
the
priestly
offlce
(Ex
28')
;
and
on
the
very
day
of
his
consecration
(Lv
10'™-
compared
with
ch.
9)
he
and
Abihu
perished
(Lv
10'-
2,
Nu
3*
26",
1
Ch
242)
for
offering
'strange
fire.'
Wherein
the
transgression
of
Nadab
and
Abihu
is
supposed
to
have
consisted
is
not
clear.
It
is
often
suggested
that
'strange'
fire
means
fire
taken
from
a
common
source
instead
of
from
the
altar
(cf.
Lv
16'^,
Nu
16«).
2.
A
Jerahmeelite
(1
Ch
2^'-
'»).
3.
A
Benjamite
(1
Ch
8™
=
98»).
4.
See
next
article.
NADAB
was
king
of
Israel
two
years
or
parts
of
years
after
his
father
Jeroboam
i.
He
was
assassinated
by
one
of
his
generals,
Baasha,
who
became
king
in
his
place
(1
K
14™
15».).
H.
P.
Smith.
NADABATH.
—
An
unidentified
town
(7),
east
of
the
Jordan,
in
the
neighbourhood
of
which
a
wedding
party
of
the
sons
of
Jambri
was
attacked,
and
many
of
them
slain,
by
Jonathan
and
Simon
(1
Mac
9"'-).
NAG6AI.
—
An
ancestor
of
Jesus
(Lk
3^);
cf.
the
Heb.
name
Nogah.
NAHALAL
(in
Jg
l'»
Nahalol).—
A
town
of
Zebulun
(Jos
19"),
given
to
the
Levites
(218=).
Its
inhabitants
were
not
expelled
by
the
Zebulunites,
but
were
made
tributary
(Jg
18").
A
possible
site
is
'Ain
Mahil,
north
of
Nazareth,
on
the
hill
which
formed
the
limit
of
Zebulun
to
the
east.
Another
is
Ma'lul,
a
village
west
of
Nazareth,
and
on
the
south
border
of
Zebulun.
NAHALIEL.^A
station
in
the
journey
from
the
Arnon
to
Jericho
(Nu
21"),
either
Wady
Waleh,
a
N.E.
tributary
of
the
Arnon,
or
the
WOdy
Zerka
Ma'in,
farther
north,
which
runs
into
the
Dead
Sea.
NAHALOL.—
See
Nahalai,.
NAHAM.—
The
father
of
Keilah
(1
Ch
4").
NAHAllIANI.
—
One
of
the
twelve
heads
of
the
Jewish
community
(Neh
7')
;
omitted
in
Ezr
2^;
called
in
1
Es
5»
Eneneus.
NAHARAI.
—
The
armourbearer
of
Joab
(2
S
238',
1
Ch
118').
NAHASH.
—
1.
A
king
of
Ammon,
who
demanded
the
surrender
of
the
men
of
Jabesh-gilead,
with
the
loss
of
the
right
eye
of
each
(1
S
II"-)-
So
sure
was
he
of
their
helplessness
that
he
allowed
them
seven
days'
respite
in
which
to
appeal
for
help.
Saul,
newly
designated
as
Israel's
future
king,
was
ploughing
in
the
fields
when
the
news
was
brought
to
him.
He
sacrificed
the
oxen
sent
parts
of
the
sacrifice
to
his
fellow-countrymen
witl
a
command
to
muster,
and
promptly
destroyed
th
Ammonites.
Probably
this
is
the
Nahash
who
was
kini
to
Saul's
enemy
David
(2
S
lO^,
1
Ch
19'),
and
whos
son
Shobi
(2
S
17")
brought
supplies
to
David
a
Mahanaim.
2.
Father
of
David's
half-sisters,
Abigai
and
Zeruiah,
if
the
text
of
2
S
17^
is
correct,
whici
is
doubtful.
According
to
Buchanan
Gray,
'daughte
of
Nahash'
may
have
crept
into
the
text
from
'soi
of
Nahash
'
in
v.";
cf
.
1
Ch
2".
J.
H.
Stevenson.
NAHATH.—
1
.
A
•
duke
'
of
Edom
(On
36'8,
1
Ch
18')
2.
A
Kohathite
Levite
(1
Ch
6",
called
in
v.
8«
Toah
and
in
1
S
1'
Tohu).
3.
A
Levite
in
the
time
of
Heze
kiah
(2
Ch
31'*).
NAHBI.—
The
NaphtaUte
spy
(Nu
13").
NAHOR
.—
1
.
Father
of
Terah
and
grandfather
of
Abra
ham
(Gn
1122-25,
1
Ch
12=,
Lk
38').
2.
Grandson
of
thi
preceding
and
brother
of
Abraham
and
Haran
(Gn
1
12«-2'
cf.
Jos
242).
He
is
said
to
have
married
Milcah,
daughte
of
Haran
(Gn
112»),
and
twelve
softs
are
enumerated
eight
by
Milcah
and
four
by
Re'umah
his
concubim
(Gn
2220-24).
In
Gn
24'»
we
read
of
'the
city
of
Nahor
i.e.
Haran,
where
Kebekah
was
found.
Laban,
ii
making
a
covenant
with
Jacob,
swears
by
the
'Go(
of
Abraham
and
the
God
of
Nahor'
(Gn
3158).
Th(
sons
ascribed
to
Nahor
(Buz,
Uz,
Aram,
etc.)
are
fo:
the
most
part
names
of
tribes.
It
has
been
questionec
if
Nahor
is
a
historical
character
at
all.
Some
thinl
we
have,
instead,
the
name
of
a
lost
tribe
once
residem
in
the
neighbourhood
of
Haran,
from
which
the
Aramsear
tribes
were
descended.
While
Abraham
appears
as
th(
common
ancestor
of
the
Israelites
and
Edomites,
Nahoi
is
represented
as
the
father
of
the
Aramaeans.
W.
F.
Boyd.
NAHSHON.—
Brother-in-law
of
Aaron
(Ex
623)
descendant
in
the
Sth
generation
from
Judah
(1
Ch
2'»'-)
and
prince
of
the
tribe
of
Judah
(Nu
V
28
7'2-
"
10'')
mentioned
as
one
of
the
ancestors
of
David
(Ru
i^",
1
Ct
2'"'-),
and
of
Christ
(Mt
IS
Lk
382).
NAHUH.
—
I.
The
Man.
—
The
word
Nahum
meani
'full
of
comfort'
and
is
probably
a
contraction
of
e
longer
Heb.
term
meaning
'God
is
a
comforter.'
01
the
man
so
named
nothing
is
certainly
known.
He
ii
called
'
the
Elkoshite,'
but
the
exact
meaning
of
the
tern
cannot
at
present
be
determined.
It
is
made
in
thf
Targum
a
kind
of
patronymic,
recording
the
assumed
descent
of
the
prophet
from
an
unknown
ancestor
Koshi
It
ic
more
likely
to
preserve
the
name
of
the
prophet'!
birthplace
or
place
of
residence,
of
which
the
identifica
tion
is
still
lacking.
Three
or
four
conjectures
hav<
been
made.
(1)
The
prophet's
tomb
is
shown
at
Elkosh,
24
miles
tc
the
N.
of
Nmeveh;
and
accordingly
he
is
said
to
have
livec
there,
a
descendant
of
a
member
of
the
ten
tribes
who
was
deported
in
B.C.
721.
But
the
tradition
that
buries
Nahuir
there
is
not
met
with
beforethe
16th
cent.,,
and
is
suffi-ciently
accounted
for
by
the
interest
in
the
city
shewn
bj
the
prophet.
(2)
CaperTiaum
is
really
a
transliteration
of
_Heb.
words
which
mean
'village
of
Nahum.'
But
a
Galil£ean
origit
for
our
prophet
is
imlikely
(Jn
752),
and
is
not
supported
by
any
allusions
in
the
prophecy.
(3)
The
same
objection
appKes
to
Jerome's
identification
of
Elkosh
with
a
village
Elkozeh
in
N.
Galilee,
which
on
othei
grounds
is
precarioiM.
(4)
The
most
probable
tradition
associates
Nahum
witt
Elkosh
'of
the
tribe
of
Simeon,'
and
locates
the
hamlet
near
Beth-Gabre,
the
modem
Beit-Jibfin,
about
half-way
between
Jerusalem
and
Gaza.
The
tradition
occurs
in
a
Syriac
version
of
the
biographies
of
the
prophets,
ascribed
to
Epiphanius,
bishop
of
Salamis
in
Cyprus
towards
the
close
of
the
4th
cent.,
but
probably
of
much
later
date.
II.
The
Book.—
1
.
Analysis
of
contents
.—In
the
analysis
of
the
book,
a
line
of
division
can
be
best
drawn
at
the
close
of
22.
The
latter
section
is
the
actual
prophecy
or
oracle.
It
is
preceded
by
a
psalm
or
proem
consisting
