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which was originally Awzal . From its position in the centre of the best portion of that kingdom it
must always have been an important city. (San’a is situated about 150 miles from Aden and 100
miles from the coast of the Red Sea. It is one of the most imposing cities of Arabia -ED.)
Uzza
(strength).
•A Benjamite of the sons of Ehud. (1 Chronicles 8:7) (B.C. 1445.)
•Elsewhere called Uzza, Or Uzzah. (1 Chronicles 13:7,9,10,11) [Uzza, Or Uzzah]
•The children of Uzza were a family of Nethinim who returned with Zerubbabel. (Ezra 2:49;
Nehemiah 7:51) (B.C. before 536.)
•Properly Uzzah. As the text now stands, Uzzah is a descendant of Merari, (1 Chronicles 6:29)
(14); but there appears to be a gap in the verse. Perhaps he is the same as Zina or Zizah the son
of Shimei. (1 Chronicles 23:10,11) for these names evidently denote the same person, and, in
Hebrew character, are not unlike Uzzah.
Uzza, Or Uzzah
(strength), one of the sons of Abinadab, in whose house at Kirjath-jearim the ark rested for
twenty years. Uzzah probably was the second and Ahio the third. They both accompanied its removal
when David first undertook to carry it to Jerusalem. (B.C. 1043.) Ahio apparently went before the
new cart, (1 Chronicles 13:7) on which it was placed, and Uzzah walked by the side. “At the
threshing-floor of Nachon” (2 Samuel 6:6) or Chidon (1 Chronicles 13:9) perhaps slipping over
the smooth rock oxen stumbled. Uzzah caught the ark to prevent its falling. The profanation was
punished by his instant death to the great grief of David, who named the place Perez-uzzah (the
breaking-forth on Uzzah). But Uzzah’s fate was not merely the penalty of his own rashness. The
improper mode of transporting the ark, which ought to have been borne on the shoulders of the
Levites was the primary cause of his unholy deed; and David distinctly recognized it as a punishment
on the people in general “because we sought him not after the due order.”
Uzza, The Garden Of
the spot in which Manasseh king of Judah and his son Amon were buried. (2 Kings 21:18,26)
It was the garden attached to Manasseh’s palace. ver. 18. The fact of its mention shows that it was
not where the usual sepulchres of the kings were. No clue, however, is afforded to its position.
Uzzensherah
(ear (or point) of Sherah) a town founded or rebuilt by Sherah, an Ephraimite woman the
daughter either of Ephraim himself or of Beriah. It is named only in (1 Chronicles 7:24) in connection
with the two Beth-horons.
Uzzi
(strong).
•Son of Bukki and father of Zerahiah, in the line of the high priests. (1 Chronicles 6:5,61; Ezra 7:4)
Though Uzzi was the lineal ancestor of Zadok, it does not appear that he was ever high priest. He
must have been contemporary with, but rather earlier than, Eli. (B.C. before 1161.)
•Son of Tola the son of Issachar. (1 Chronicles 7:2,3) (B.C. 1706.)
•Son of Bela, of the tribe of Benjamin. (1 Chronicles 7:7) (B.C. 1706.)
•Another, or the same, from whom descended some Benjamite houses, which were settled at
Jerusalem after the return from captivity. (1 Chronicles 9:8)
•A Levite, son of Bani and overseer of the Levites dwelling at Jerusalem, in the time of Nehemiah.
(Nehemiah 11:22)
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