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Smith's Bible Dictionary
these features more distinctly. In this great period of prophetism there is no longer any chronological
development of Messianic prophecy, as in the earlier period previous to Solomon. Each prophet
adds a feature, one more, another less clearly combine the feature, and we have the portrait; but
it does not grow gradually and perceptibly under the hands of the several artists. Its culminating
point is found in the prophecy contained in (Isaiah 52:13-15) and Isai 52:53 Prophets of the New
Testament .—So far as their predictive powers are concerned, the Old Testament prophets find
their New Testament counterpart in the writer of the Apocalypse; but in their general character,
as specially illumined revealers of God’s will, their counterpart will rather be found, first in the
great Prophet of the Church and his forerunner, John the Baptist, and next in all those persons
who were endowed with the extraordinary gifts of the Spirit in the apostolic age, the speakers with
tongues and the interpreters of tongues, the prophets and the discerners of spirits, the teachers and
workers of miracles. (1 Corinthians 12:10,28) That Predictive powers did occasionally exist in
the New Testament prophets is proved by the case of Agabus, (Acts 11:23) but this was not their
characteristic. The prophets of the New Testament were supernaturally illuminated expounders
and preachers.
Hukkok
(incised), a place on the boundary of Naphtali. (Joshua 19:34) It has been recovered in Yakuk,
a village in the mountains of Naphtali west of the upper end of the Sea of Galilee.
Hukok
a name which in (1 Chronicles 6:75) is erroneously used for HELKATH, which see.
Hul
(circle), the second son of Aram, and grandson of Shem. (Genesis 10:23) The strongest evidence
is in favor of the district about the roots of Lebanon.
Huldah
(weasel), a prophetess, whose husband, Shallum, was keeper of the wardrobe in the time of
King Josiah. It was to her that Josiah had recourse, when Hilkiah found a book of the law, to procure
an authoritative opinion on it. (2 Kings 22:14; 2 Chronicles 34:22) (B.C. 623.)
Humtah
(place of lizards), a city of Judah one of those in the mountain districts the next to Hebron.
(Joshua 15:54)
Hunting
Hunting, as a matter of necessity, whether for the extermination of dangerous beasts or for
procuring sustenance betokens a rude and semi-civilized state; as an amusement, it betokens an
advanced state. The Hebrews as a pastoral and agricultural people, were not given to the sports of
the field; the density of the population, the earnestness of their character, and the tendency of their
ritual regulations, particularly those affecting food, all combined to discourage the practice of
hunting. The smaller of catching animals was, first, either by digging a pitfall; or, secondly, by a
trap which was set under ground, (Job 18:10) in the run of the animal, (Proverbs 22:5) and caught
it by the leg, (Job 18:9) or lastly by the use of the net, of which there were various kinds, as or the
gazelle, (Isaiah 51:20) Authorized Version, “wild bull,” and other animals of that class.
Hupham
(coast-man), a son of Benjamin, founder of the family of the Huphamites. (Numbers 26:39)
(B.C. 1688.)
Huphamites, The
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