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(cherished).
•Father of Elkanah, the father of Samuel, of the house of Kohath. (1 Samuel 1:1; 1 Chronicles
6:27,34) (B.C. before 1142.)
•A Benjamite, the founder of a family of Bene-Jeroham. (1 Chronicles 8:27) Probably the same as
•Father (or progenitor) of Ibneiah. (1 Chronicles 9:8) comp. 1Chr 9:3 and 1Chr 9:9. (B.C. before
588.)
•A descendant of Aaron, of the house of Immer, the leader of the sixteenth course of priests; son
of Pashur, and father of Adaiah. (1 Chronicles 9:12) He appears to be mentioned again in (Nehemiah
11:12) (B.C. before 586.)
•Jeroham of Gedor, some of whose sons joined David at Ziglag. (1 Chronicles 12:7) (B.C. before
1055.)
•A Danite, whose son or descendant Azareel was head of his tribe in the time of David. (1 Chronicles
27:22)
•Father of Azariah, one of the “captains of hundreds” in the time of Athaliah. (2 Chronicles 23:1)
(B.C. before 876.)
Jerubbaal, Or Jerubbaal
(contender with Baal), the surname of Gideon, which he acquired in consequence of destroying
the altar of Baal, when his father defended him from the vengeance of the Abiezrites. (Judges 6:32)
Jerubbesheth
(contender with the shame), a name of Gideon. (2 Samuel 11:21)
Jeruel
(founded by God), The wilderness of, the place in which Jehoshaphat was informed by Jahaziel
the Levite that he should encounter the hordes of Ammon, Moab and the Mehunims. (2 Chronicles
20:16) The name has not been met with.
Jerusalem
(the habitation of peace), Jerusalem stands in latitude 31 degrees 46’ 35” north and longitude
35 degrees 18’ 30” east of Greenwich. It is 32 miles distant from the sea and 18 from the Jordan,
20 from Hebron and 36 from Samaria. “In several respects,” says Dean Stanley, “its situation is
singular among the cities of Palestine. Its elevation is remarkable; occasioned not from its being
on the summit of one of the numerous hills of Judea, like most of the towns and villages, but because
it is on the edge of one of the highest table-lands of the country. Hebron indeed is higher still by
some hundred feet, and from the south, accordingly (even from Bethlehem), the approach to
Jerusalem is by a slight descent. But from any other side the ascent is perpetual; and to the traveller
approaching the city from the east or west it must always have presented the appearance beyond
any other capital of the then known world—we may say beyond any important city that has ever
existed on the earth—of a mountain city; breathing, as compared with the sultry plains of Jordan,
a mountain air; enthroned, as compared with jericho or Damascus, Gaza or Tyre, on a mountain
fastness.”—S. & P. 170,
•Jerusalem, if not actually in the centre of Palestine, was yet virtually so. “It was on the ridge, the
broadest and most strongly-marked ridge of the backbone of the complicated hills which extend
through the whole country from the plain of Esdraelon to the desert.” Roads.—There appear to
have been but two main approaches to the city:—
•From the Jordan valley by Jericho and the Mount of Olives. This was the route commonly taken
from the north and east of the country.
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