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Smith's Bible Dictionary
Jadau
(loving), one of the Bene-Nebo who had taken a foreign wife. (Ezra 10:43) (B.C. 459.)
Jaddua
(known).
•Son and successor in the high priesthood of Jonathan or Johanan. He is the last of the high priests
mentioned in the Old Testament, and probably altogether the latest name in the canon. (Nehemiah
12:11,22) (B.C. 406-332.)
•One of the chief of the people who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah. (Nehemiah 10:21) (B.C.
410.)
Jadon
(judge), the Meronothite, who assisted to repair the wall of Jerusalem. (Nehemiah 3:7) (B.C.
446.)
Jael
(mountain goat), the wife of Heber the Kenite. (B.C. 1316.) In the headlong rout which followed
the defeat of the Canaanites by Barak, at Megiddo on the plain of Esdraelon, Sisera, their general,
fled to the tent of the Kenite chieftainess, at Kedesh in Naphtali, four miles northwest of Lake
Merom. He accepted Jael’s invitation to enter, and she flung a mantle over him as he lay wearily
on the floor. When thirst prevented sleep, and he asked for water, she brought him buttermilk in
her choicest vessel. At last, with a feeling of perfect security, he feel into a deep sleep. Then it was
that Jael took one of the great wooden pins which fastened down the cords of the tent, and with
one terrible blow with a mallet dashed it through Sisera’s temples deep into the earth. (Judges 5:27)
She then waited to meet the pursuing Barak, and led him into her tent that she might in his presence
claim the glory of the deed! Many have supposed that by this act she fulfilled the saying of Deborah,
(Judges 4:9) and hence they have supposed that Jael was actuated by some divine and hidden
influence. But the Bible gives no hint of such an inspiration.
Jagur
(lodging),a town of Judah, one of those farthest to the south, on the frontier of Edom. (Joshua
15:21)
Jah
(Jehovah), the abbreviated form of Jehovah, used only in poetry. It occurs frequently in the
Hebrew, but with a single exception, (Psalms 68:4) is rendered “Lord” in the Authorized Version.
The identity of Jah and Jehovah is strongly marked in two passages of Isaiah— (Isaiah 12:2; 26:4)
[Jehovah].
Jahath
(union).
•Son of Libni, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi. (1 Chronicles 6:20) (B.C. after 1706.)
•Head of a later house in the family of Gershom, being the eldest son of Shimei, the son of Laadan.
(1 Chronicles 23:10,11)
•A man in the genealogy of Judah, (1 Chronicles 4:2) son of Reaiah ben-Shobal.
•A Levite, son of Shelomoth. (1 Chronicles 24:22)
•A Merarite Levite in the reign of Josiah. (2 Chronicles 34:12) (B.C. 623.)
Jahaz, Also Jahaza, Jahazah And Juhzah
(trodden down). Under these four forms is given in the Authorized Version the name of a place
which in the Hebrew appears as Yahats and Yahtsah . At Jahaz the decisive battle was fought
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