(whom Jehovah enlightens), the father of Nehemiah. (beautiful banks), the 'river of Gozan,' (2 Kings 17:6) and 2Kin 18:11 Is identified beyond all reasonable doubt with the famous affluent of the Euphrates, which is called Aborrhas and Chaboras by ancient writers, and now Khabour. before 589.)Ī coat of mail covering the neck and breast. (light of Jehovah), apparently the head of one of the families of the Rechabites. The whole concludes with the magnificent psalm in ch.3, a composition unrivalled for boldness of conception, sublimity of thought and majesty of diction. He probably lived about the twelfth or thirteenth year of Josiah, B.C.630 or 629.Ĭonsists of three chapters, in the first of which he foreshadows the invasion of Judea by the Chaldeans, and in the second he foretells the doom of the Chaldeans. Of the facts of the prophet's life we have no certain information. (embrace), the eighth in order of the minor prophets. Bene-Habaiah were among the sons of the priests who returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel. 'father of Tekoa,' by his second wife Naarah. (the courier), a man or a family immediately descended from Ashur.

Symbolism of letter h